o see a movie in the same context as Striptease, but centered on a male, sold or shown anywhere besides a porn store. If you go shopping at just about any store you will find a picture of a beautiful woman on just about any item a male might think about buying, but you dont find very many of the same types of pictures on items that females buy. I think that the reason for this is because men have a major problem with buying anything that has another male portrayed in a sexual manor or pretty much in any way, while females are for the most part very content and open with their sexuality and feelings. Most females have no problem at all buying an item that has a beautiful females picture on it. Females dont think it will hinder their sexuality, while males generally wonder what the guys will think if they see that they bought this? I do however think that the male body is slowly coming into more prospective. According to Ward in his article Hung like a Horse: Male Stripping in Recent Films, the male erection, which is generally looked upon as masculine, is no longer the main point of masculinity. Originally, the male body was shown as your stereotypical, tan, muscular, and rugged kind of guy. Such stars as Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwartzenagger portrayed this stereotypical male in the stereotypical masculine settings in movies such as, Rambo, Die Hard, Terminator, and The Fugitive. Now our typical male vision is being swept away from these old realms and pushed in a new direction. With movies like The Full Monty, Boogie Nights, and The Pillow Book, have stripped the male body and exposed not its masculinity, but its vulnerability. In the movie Philadelphia a gay man is being defended because he was fired from his job unjustly. This is a big step for our movie society to make. Being gay is not something that is talked about. The movies are becoming more and more bold, making the generation today start to understand i...
