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Meet Hollywood’s No. 1 movie prosthetic penis-maker!

Article by Nell Frizzell Mon 28 Mar 2022 | The Guardian

What’s behind the sudden rise in penises on screen? And who do the stars turn to when they need a great prosthetic member? We meet the master craftsman who tailors each stand-in schlong like a bespoke suit.

If you’ve been watching any of the major American TV series recently, you may have noticed some new members in the cast. Some notable members. Some lower members. From the animatronic talking todger of Pam & Tommy to the bathroom bugle bared by Harry Goldenblatt in And Just Like That …, plus a whole panoply in the latest season of Euphoria, we seem to have entered a dust storm of dick.

Despite having instances of full-frontal female nudity on screen since the experimental Dutch TV show Hoepla in 1967, the male equivalent seems to have lagged behind for several decades. This may have been partly caused by so-called obscenity laws, which prohibited the broadcast of an erect penis on national TV. Indeed, it wasn’t until August 2020 that British viewers got their first glimpse of an erection on telly, as part of Channel 4’s documentary Me and My Penis. British viewers have also been treated to glimpses of male nudity, even the odd nubbin, in a range of shows for many years – from War and Peace to Top Boy, from Misfits to Cucumber. Flaccid, yes. Fleeting, yes. But they were there.

Back in 2014, Glyn Pritchard got memorably tasered in the tender parts in Channel 4’s Babylon. Pritchard’s character was caught in a police raid wearing nothing more than a T-shirt (what he laughingly calls a “crop top” when we chat). There were, the crew told him, various ways this could unfold. “They said I could do all the rehearsals, and all the other camera angles, with underpants on,” says Pritchard, who is due to perform in King Lear, in trousers, at London’s Globe this summer. “So I’d only be naked for that one shot. But that made it feel like it would be an occasion – building up to it. So instead, I tried to be naked as much as possible so we all got used to it and it was more comfortable.” Pritchard barks out a laugh. “Obviously, within reason. I wasn’t going for my lunch like that.”

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Image: Animatronic talking member … Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee in Pam & Tommy

Perhaps what sets the recent American dongs apart is their idiosyncrasy. Even flaccid, the penis in And Just Like That … looked like a demi-baguette, while Pam & Tommy’s soliloquising sausage (inspired by Tommy Lee’s autobiography, in which the Mötley Crüe drummer chats to his penis) is more like something from the Muppet stable than a realistic appendage. Dear reader, it talks.

But who are the people who make this magic happen? As a makeup and special effects artist, Matthew Mungle has been in this line of work for decades, creating quite an impressive number of prosthetic penises. His second job may have been applying Johnny Depp’s makeup every day of the Edward Scissorhands shoot, but he has hit on something of a specialism recently in making realistic, mobile or comic male genitals in everything from Will Ferrell’s Step Brothers to Little Britain USA and Shameless.

“When I get an email or phone call from a producer or director saying they need a penis,” Mungle tells me, “my first questions are: is it cut or not cut, what’s the length and girth, how large are the testicles, and how long are the pubic hairs?” It sounds like a dating profile, I say. Mungle throws back his head in a great laugh. “You have to think about that stuff!”

While he already has a range of soft moulds for various peckers, which can be customised or used off the peg, Mungle also makes bespoke penises for TV and film productions by sculpting a whole new structure out of oil-based clay. That’s right – shaft, testicles, scrotum and curlies, all coming together in one neat package that can be glued to the actor’s stomach.

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Well, as Mungle explains, it’s actually a bit more complicated than that: “There’s a flange at the top of the penis where the pubic hair is. I airbrush that with veins, different colours to make it look realistic. Then I have these pieces of hair lace I glue on. The bit at the very top of the flange is what gets glued to the actor’s own skin. That holds it on at the front. There’s also a piece of fabric that I glue on to the testicle area and, on set, that is pulled up between the buttocks and fastened at the top of the buttocks. It’s made of a sheer, nude-coloured power stretch material.”

If this all sounds cumbersome, you may be surprised to hear quite how sentimental some actors get about their intimate additions. “I made the penis for Chris Hemsworth in Vacation,” Mungle tells me. “According to someone who worked on that movie, they put the, er, unit in an acrylic box and presented it to Chris at the end. Apparently, he was so proud of it, he had it on his mantle, right next to Thor’s hammer.” High praise indeed.


"The testicles I made for Will Ferrell’s Step Brothers had to be free-floating rather than rigid mini space hoppers"

Image: Matthew Mungle |wmcreationsinc.com

As well as matching the colour of the actor’s skin, Mungle has to consider movement – and not just of the member. “The testicles I made for Step Brothers were quite specific,” he recalls, “because he pulled them out of his trousers and rubbed them on a drum kit.” You didn’t see the meat, just the two veg. “They had to move like free-floating testicles, rather than rigid miniature space hoppers. So I decided that we’d make actual testes that we put into a sack, which was very thin.”

Ah yes, the scrotum. Tell us about it. “With plasticising silicone, you can make it as soft or as hard as you want,” Mungle explains, heroically stepping over the innuendo. “Using something called a deadener, you can make the material a little softer than a pencil eraser. Sometimes, for a scrotum, I do a firmer layer first then add a second over the top for the movement.” My eyes must have widened. “I’ve learned to be a chemist as well as an artist,” says Mungle, clapping his hands over his chest. “I’m a little Geppetto in my studio.”

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The first erection on British TV … Me And My Penis.| Watch on channel4.com

In real life, most penises come with their own set of inbuilt special effects: urination, erection, ejaculation. Yet these aren’t exactly a regular feature of television. Is that prudishness – or because of the technical difficulty? “I’ve never been called on to do a soft penis to an erect penis on screen,” says Mungle. “I’m sure that day will come. However, I worked with Matt Lucas and David Walliams on Little Britain USA and they had a sketch about two workout buddies. We had to sculpt whole bodysuits for them in latex: they come into the locker room, drop their towels and, well, they have extremely small penises.”

This, I presume, is where most actors will be keen to point out that a prosthetic is needed. Mungle details how he transformed these flaccid members into erections off-screen. “We worked a wire into each very small penis. When the time came, I had to go in, get down on my knees, take the little penis wire, pull it up then walk away.” He pauses. “I think there’s actually some video of me doing that.”

Mungle hasn’t yet been asked to create an ejaculating penis, which would certainly feel like quite a step, given the still prevailing prudish attitudes to nudity. “With the way television is,” he says, “I’m not sure you’d get away with that. But I didn’t think they’d get away with showing this many penises!” Mungle worked on CSI not long after the infamous incident in which one of Janet Jackson’s breasts was exposed at the 2004 Super Bowl. “CBS,” he recalls, “came down and every time we did an autopsy of a female, you had to cover the breasts. It was ridiculous! You can pull out the heart, but not see their breasts.”

In this context, why does there seem to have been such a ramping up of rampant male nudity in the last year? Are we genuinely experiencing a change in attitude? Perhaps the increase in visible male genitals is an attempt to counterbalance the sheer number of breasts that have been on TV for years, most notably in such shows as Game of Thrones. Or perhaps TV is finally just catching up with the much less prudish world of theatre. “As an actor,” says Pritchard, “going to do that scene that day, I was far more concerned with the performance than the fact everyone could see my willy. I’ve been naked on stage a couple of times. In fact, I did a play where all five of us were naked all the way through. After the first two minutes, the story takes over and it stops being a thing.”

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I think the question of almost all, how did the prosthetic stick to the actor's real penis? Did they created a hole so that the real penis could be inserted. Then who's the one placing/putting the prosthetic? They are lucky hehe. Imagining seeing the actor's real penis even that real penis isn't going to be shown on screen, is truly a VIP Experience. hope to work as a crew behind the scenes of movies where in you could see the actor's real penis in scenes
 

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I absolutely hate it. There should be no fakes, male or female.
Not only is it painfully obvious and comical, it undermines all the actors from the 70/80/90 who actually had the guts to show their real stuff.
It's also just another way for Hollywood to cheap out.
 

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Several times I've been one of several guys walking around naked all day among a couple of dozen clothed people for a day-long photo shoot. Pritchard is right; after about two minutes whatever you're doing takes over and nudity stops being a thing.

Buh I think I'm missing something basic here. What is the need for so many prosthetic dicks to begin with? Stunts (like the testicles & drums) aside, what is the point? Is EVERY actor's dick too small for his role? Are TV & movies becoming like porn in which every actor has to have a 95th+ %-ile penis?

I feel like I've missed something...
 

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I absolutely hate it. There should be no fakes, male or female.
Not only is it painfully obvious and comical, it undermines all the actors from the 70/80/90 who actually had the guts to show their real stuff.
It's also just another way for Hollywood to cheap out.
Please realize this, should the 'scene' require an erection, there is no such thing as a 30 second shoot. I provided an antique (1960's) convertible quite a few years ago for a Florida Lotto 30 second commercial. I had to arrive by 7am. I did not get home until well past dark. ALL for a 30 second commercial! Think what amount of time is required for a 5 minute scene. Then think if you would be able to 'keep' an erection for days on end.
I'm not a fan of prosthetics, but reality is reality. There is no human man in existence that can keep a boner 24/7.
 

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Please realize this, should the 'scene' require an erection, there is no such thing as a 30 second shoot. I provided an antique (1960's) convertible quite a few years ago for a Florida Lotto 30 second commercial. I had to arrive by 7am. I did not get home until well past dark. ALL for a 30 second commercial! Think what amount of time is required for a 5 minute scene. Then think if you would be able to 'keep' an erection for days on end.
I'm not a fan of prosthetics, but reality is reality. There is no human man in existence that can keep a boner 24/7.
Lol...Of course exceptions have to be made for erections.
 

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I absolutely hate it. There should be no fakes, male or female.
Not only is it painfully obvious and comical, it undermines all the actors from the 70/80/90 who actually had the guts to show their real stuff.
It's also just another way for Hollywood to cheap out.
Completely agree. I wouldn't mind but it is so, so obvious when it is utilised that it completely destroys suspension of disbelief. Either do it properly or don't bother. I blame HBO for this as it's mostly done for weird shock value or to become a 'talking point' and it seems to be largely in their shows as a way to be edgy etc
 

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20+ years ago there was an episode of Professor Robert Winston’s series The Human Body where they showed a penis.

I was quite surprised, as it was a repeat on a Sunday afternoon. I was even more surprised when moments later they showed the penis erect. But, as it’s a factual documentary they could justify showing it.

So that article’s claim about the first erection on British TV being only two years ago is crap. There’s been other stuff since then like A Girl’s Guide to 21st Century Sex and Sex Pod, where they’ve shown actual sex, complete with cum shots.
 

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Please realize this, should the 'scene' require an erection, there is no such thing as a 30 second shoot. I provided an antique (1960's) convertible quite a few years ago for a Florida Lotto 30 second commercial. I had to arrive by 7am. I did not get home until well past dark. ALL for a 30 second commercial! Think what amount of time is required for a 5 minute scene. Then think if you would be able to 'keep' an erection for days on end.
I'm not a fan of prosthetics, but reality is reality. There is no human man in existence that can keep a boner 24/7.
Well um actually.... there are in fact E.D. meds which induce a boner for hours, regardless of pyschosexual arousal. You cooing be thinking about your next line, or mowing the lawn, and still sport a raging hard-on. Porn actors, especially gay porn actors, use these injections all the time. And yeah, you have to man up and take the shot right into your own prick.

I respect his special effects artistry even more because it seems this is one last holdout of real "magic" not replaced by computer simulation. Can you just imagine if DreamWorks had animated a talking dick?
 

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Please realize this, should the 'scene' require an erection, there is no such thing as a 30 second shoot. I provided an antique (1960's) convertible quite a few years ago for a Florida Lotto 30 second commercial. I had to arrive by 7am. I did not get home until well past dark. ALL for a 30 second commercial! Think what amount of time is required for a 5 minute scene. Then think if you would be able to 'keep' an erection for days on end.
I'm not a fan of prosthetics, but reality is reality. There is no human man in existence that can keep a boner 24/7.

Few mainstream films require an actor to have an erection for 'days'. Considering these scenes amount to mere moments of screen time in most cases (accepting the time taken to achieve said screen time is longer) it's perfectly achievable.

My argument is, if your actor can't or won't show their dick/erection then don't show it all or find someone who will. Prosthetics ruin scenes, they look fake and add nothing,
 
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My argument is, if your actor can't or won't show their dick/erection then don't show it all or find someone who will. Prosthetics ruin scenes, they look fake and add nothing,
They add consistency. Each take will look the same, even though the actor might now be hungry or cold or getting into it and getting a chub that looks different from the previous take.

When you look at how Hollywood has been over the decades by treating anything erotic as some sort of pariah it's no surprise that this is their response to a need.
 

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20+ years ago there was an episode of Professor Robert Winston’s series The Human Body where they showed a penis.

I was quite surprised, as it was a repeat on a Sunday afternoon. I was even more surprised when moments later they showed the penis erect. But, as it’s a factual documentary they could justify showing it.

Was that a series of shows where an artist drew representations of the organs underneath on the nude model's body?

If so they had this very attractive young guy there standing totally nude for the lovely young lady to draw on kidneys and he made it a point to move his hands down to cover his cock as her hands got ever closer. It was all done before about 100 audience members comprised of medical students and doctors. No prosthetics there!
 

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Meet Hollywood’s No. 1 movie prosthetic penis-maker!

Article by Nell Frizzell Mon 28 Mar 2022 | The Guardian

What’s behind the sudden rise in penises on screen? And who do the stars turn to when they need a great prosthetic member? We meet the master craftsman who tailors each stand-in schlong like a bespoke suit.

If you’ve been watching any of the major American TV series recently, you may have noticed some new members in the cast. Some notable members. Some lower members. From the animatronic talking todger of Pam & Tommy to the bathroom bugle bared by Harry Goldenblatt in And Just Like That …, plus a whole panoply in the latest season of Euphoria, we seem to have entered a dust storm of dick.

Despite having instances of full-frontal female nudity on screen since the experimental Dutch TV show Hoepla in 1967, the male equivalent seems to have lagged behind for several decades. This may have been partly caused by so-called obscenity laws, which prohibited the broadcast of an erect penis on national TV. Indeed, it wasn’t until August 2020 that British viewers got their first glimpse of an erection on telly, as part of Channel 4’s documentary Me and My Penis. British viewers have also been treated to glimpses of male nudity, even the odd nubbin, in a range of shows for many years – from War and Peace to Top Boy, from Misfits to Cucumber. Flaccid, yes. Fleeting, yes. But they were there.

Back in 2014, Glyn Pritchard got memorably tasered in the tender parts in Channel 4’s Babylon. Pritchard’s character was caught in a police raid wearing nothing more than a T-shirt (what he laughingly calls a “crop top” when we chat). There were, the crew told him, various ways this could unfold. “They said I could do all the rehearsals, and all the other camera angles, with underpants on,” says Pritchard, who is due to perform in King Lear, in trousers, at London’s Globe this summer. “So I’d only be naked for that one shot. But that made it feel like it would be an occasion – building up to it. So instead, I tried to be naked as much as possible so we all got used to it and it was more comfortable.” Pritchard barks out a laugh. “Obviously, within reason. I wasn’t going for my lunch like that.”

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Image: Animatronic talking member … Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee in Pam & Tommy

Perhaps what sets the recent American dongs apart is their idiosyncrasy. Even flaccid, the penis in And Just Like That … looked like a demi-baguette, while Pam & Tommy’s soliloquising sausage (inspired by Tommy Lee’s autobiography, in which the Mötley Crüe drummer chats to his penis) is more like something from the Muppet stable than a realistic appendage. Dear reader, it talks.

But who are the people who make this magic happen? As a makeup and special effects artist, Matthew Mungle has been in this line of work for decades, creating quite an impressive number of prosthetic penises. His second job may have been applying Johnny Depp’s makeup every day of the Edward Scissorhands shoot, but he has hit on something of a specialism recently in making realistic, mobile or comic male genitals in everything from Will Ferrell’s Step Brothers to Little Britain USA and Shameless.

“When I get an email or phone call from a producer or director saying they need a penis,” Mungle tells me, “my first questions are: is it cut or not cut, what’s the length and girth, how large are the testicles, and how long are the pubic hairs?” It sounds like a dating profile, I say. Mungle throws back his head in a great laugh. “You have to think about that stuff!”

While he already has a range of soft moulds for various peckers, which can be customised or used off the peg, Mungle also makes bespoke penises for TV and film productions by sculpting a whole new structure out of oil-based clay. That’s right – shaft, testicles, scrotum and curlies, all coming together in one neat package that can be glued to the actor’s stomach.

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Well, as Mungle explains, it’s actually a bit more complicated than that: “There’s a flange at the top of the penis where the pubic hair is. I airbrush that with veins, different colours to make it look realistic. Then I have these pieces of hair lace I glue on. The bit at the very top of the flange is what gets glued to the actor’s own skin. That holds it on at the front. There’s also a piece of fabric that I glue on to the testicle area and, on set, that is pulled up between the buttocks and fastened at the top of the buttocks. It’s made of a sheer, nude-coloured power stretch material.”

If this all sounds cumbersome, you may be surprised to hear quite how sentimental some actors get about their intimate additions. “I made the penis for Chris Hemsworth in Vacation,” Mungle tells me. “According to someone who worked on that movie, they put the, er, unit in an acrylic box and presented it to Chris at the end. Apparently, he was so proud of it, he had it on his mantle, right next to Thor’s hammer.” High praise indeed.


"The testicles I made for Will Ferrell’s Step Brothers had to be free-floating rather than rigid mini space hoppers"

Image: Matthew Mungle |wmcreationsinc.com

As well as matching the colour of the actor’s skin, Mungle has to consider movement – and not just of the member. “The testicles I made for Step Brothers were quite specific,” he recalls, “because he pulled them out of his trousers and rubbed them on a drum kit.” You didn’t see the meat, just the two veg. “They had to move like free-floating testicles, rather than rigid miniature space hoppers. So I decided that we’d make actual testes that we put into a sack, which was very thin.”

Ah yes, the scrotum. Tell us about it. “With plasticising silicone, you can make it as soft or as hard as you want,” Mungle explains, heroically stepping over the innuendo. “Using something called a deadener, you can make the material a little softer than a pencil eraser. Sometimes, for a scrotum, I do a firmer layer first then add a second over the top for the movement.” My eyes must have widened. “I’ve learned to be a chemist as well as an artist,” says Mungle, clapping his hands over his chest. “I’m a little Geppetto in my studio.”

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The first erection on British TV … Me And My Penis.| Watch on channel4.com

In real life, most penises come with their own set of inbuilt special effects: urination, erection, ejaculation. Yet these aren’t exactly a regular feature of television. Is that prudishness – or because of the technical difficulty? “I’ve never been called on to do a soft penis to an erect penis on screen,” says Mungle. “I’m sure that day will come. However, I worked with Matt Lucas and David Walliams on Little Britain USA and they had a sketch about two workout buddies. We had to sculpt whole bodysuits for them in latex: they come into the locker room, drop their towels and, well, they have extremely small penises.”

This, I presume, is where most actors will be keen to point out that a prosthetic is needed. Mungle details how he transformed these flaccid members into erections off-screen. “We worked a wire into each very small penis. When the time came, I had to go in, get down on my knees, take the little penis wire, pull it up then walk away.” He pauses. “I think there’s actually some video of me doing that.”

Mungle hasn’t yet been asked to create an ejaculating penis, which would certainly feel like quite a step, given the still prevailing prudish attitudes to nudity. “With the way television is,” he says, “I’m not sure you’d get away with that. But I didn’t think they’d get away with showing this many penises!” Mungle worked on CSI not long after the infamous incident in which one of Janet Jackson’s breasts was exposed at the 2004 Super Bowl. “CBS,” he recalls, “came down and every time we did an autopsy of a female, you had to cover the breasts. It was ridiculous! You can pull out the heart, but not see their breasts.”

In this context, why does there seem to have been such a ramping up of rampant male nudity in the last year? Are we genuinely experiencing a change in attitude? Perhaps the increase in visible male genitals is an attempt to counterbalance the sheer number of breasts that have been on TV for years, most notably in such shows as Game of Thrones. Or perhaps TV is finally just catching up with the much less prudish world of theatre. “As an actor,” says Pritchard, “going to do that scene that day, I was far more concerned with the performance than the fact everyone could see my willy. I’ve been naked on stage a couple of times. In fact, I did a play where all five of us were naked all the way through. After the first two minutes, the story takes over and it stops being a thing.”

Read the original article in The Guardian
Some of them look amazing; really good work. But in "Pam & Tommy" and on "Minx" they've looked fake to me and nothing takes me out of a show or movie faster.
 
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Several times I've been one of several guys walking around naked all day among a couple of dozen clothed people for a day-long photo shoot. Pritchard is right; after about two minutes whatever you're doing takes over and nudity stops being a thing.

Buh I think I'm missing something basic here. What is the need for so many prosthetic dicks to begin with? Stunts (like the testicles & drums) aside, what is the point? Is EVERY actor's dick too small for his role? Are TV & movies becoming like porn in which every actor has to have a 95th+ %-ile penis?

I feel like I've missed something...
Bingo! A variety of penis sizes is real life, and not everyone wants or needs a massive dick on or in their body. But we've set guys up for ridicule and judgement leading so many to hide behind an ideal, which then just contributes to the problem for the guys in the audience.
 

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Bingo! A variety of penis sizes is real life, and not everyone wants or needs a massive dick on or in their body. But we've set guys up for ridicule and judgement leading so many to hide behind an ideal, which then just contributes to the problem for the guys in the audience.
As someone mentioned above, I think continuity in scenes with multiple takes filmed over a long period of time, in addition to modesty on the part of the actors, could be a consideration. The same scene could even have takes filmed on different days. Maybe concern over maintaining the consistency of the look of the penis in a scene that is supposed to take place over just a minute or two but was actually filmed over several hours or even multiple days, is part of what drives the use of prosthetics? It would be strange to see an actor hanging heavy in one shot and then turtled in the next shot when it is all supposed to be happening within seconds on screen but was really filmed over a period of hours or even different days.
 

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But we've set guys up for ridicule and judgement leading so many to hide behind an ideal, which then just contributes to the problem for the guys in the audience.

Agreed, but with penis size the ideal isn't 'noticeably above average' the way a guy 6'2" is. The ideal framed for the audience is the equivalent of a guy who's 6'6". So the effect is arguably more damaging. There're probably millions of guys whose penis is the equivalent of 5'9" convinced it's the equivalent of 5'4".

The only thing I can think of to combat this is to explain that people who judge and ridicule are actually advertising their lack of actual experience with penises.
 
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20+ years ago there was an episode of Professor Robert Winston’s series The Human Body where they showed a penis.

I was quite surprised, as it was a repeat on a Sunday afternoon. I was even more surprised when moments later they showed the penis erect. But, as it’s a factual documentary they could justify showing it.

So that article’s claim about the first erection on British TV being only two years ago is crap. There’s been other stuff since then like A Girl’s Guide to 21st Century Sex and Sex Pod, where they’ve shown actual sex, complete with cum shots.
You know, I was thinking the same thing. Erect dicks have been shown on tv a million times. That photography show with the erection was trashy.
 
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Awesome info. The prosthetic makers actually do a very good job because there is always a debate if it is real or not lol. Of course the majority of the time it is indeed a prosthetic.

As Hollywood looks to continue to "shock" with frontal. He is going to make a lot of money indeed.