Unpopular Opinion: Enough With the Nudity
... on television, that is. Warning for the squeamish: extensive, sometimes graphic, talk about nudity. If that's not your thing, get out now. I like when characters are not afraid to get naked on television. The scenes on network TV where the woman and man sit post-coital, with the woman's chest carefully concealed, always make me snicker. So I was grateful when premium cable channels like HBO said: "Fuck it all. Let's show people the way they really are." And real people get naked. Not just above the waist, but below. However, there was a point where the nudity started to feel less "real" and more exploitative. I feel this way often while watching Game of Thrones , but noticed it much sooner. It was during an episode of Boardwalk Empire , a show that I've tried really hard to like, but which leaves me cold. Investigators were in a coroner's office looking at the body of a murdered woman. The corpse lay on the table completel