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Why the only naked bodies you see on screen these days are men's, not women's: 'No nudity' contracts, intimacy co-ordinators and the feminist MeToo backlash against predator producers like Harvey Weinstein
A recent survey commissioned by The Economist shows that, in mainstream cinema, scenes of sex (and female nudity) are in significant decline.
Its female lead, Zendaya, a 27-year-old American on the brink of superstardom, has been described as 'sizzling', 'irresistibly sexy' and plain 'hot' in a movie lauded even by the Financial Times as 'the kind of old-fashioned romantic thriller, long absent from cinemas, in which the audience is kept in a near-constant state of arousal'. It was once associated with only powerful actresses, the likes of Julia Roberts in the cinema, while on TV, Sarah Jessica Parker insisted on the strict condition that, unlike her co-stars in the hit drama Sex And The City, she would keep her breasts firmly under wraps. He thinks that the presence of an intimacy co-ordinator would have enfeebled the sex scenes in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Basic Instinct (1992) and claims that his co-stars in those films, Glenn Close and Sharon Stone, agree.
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