# First mainstream movie to show a penis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913 "2002-06-08T00:04:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/21 "2002-06-10T19:46:31Z")
May I direct you to Eadweard Muybridge’s _Ascending an Incline_ (1887)? Features full frontal male nudity—and quite a looker, too. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/22 "2002-06-10T21:05:51Z")
“GP” or “PG” rated male frontal nudity before _Never Cry Wolf_ (1983): _Celebration at Big Sur_ (20th Century-Fox, 1971) _Mixed Company_ (United Artists, 1974) _Danton_ (France, 1982). Released in U.S. in 1983. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/23 "2002-06-10T21:13:11Z")
Thanks everyone! I think I’ll go with _Medium Cool_ and / or _I Am Curious (Yellow)_. (The latter being one of the movies that Ebert reviews in his book I Hated, Hated, HATED this movie - a good book to have in the bathroom). ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/24 "2002-06-10T22:30:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > …he was calling Adam Sandler a penis. Tee hee.😃 (Too subtle?) ---
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/25 "2002-06-10T22:34:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*“GP” or “PG” rated male frontal nudity before _Never Cry Wolf_ (1983): > > _Celebration at Big Sur_ (20th Century-Fox, 1971) > _Mixed Company_ (United Artists, 1974) > _Danton_ (France, 1982). Released in U.S. in 1983. \*\* I bow to your greater movie knowledge, **Walloon**. I had never even heard of any of those movies. ---
**Author:** ![dopetalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dopetalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dopetalker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/26 "2002-07-05T08:02:51Z")
Hi, Dooku. “Fucko?” ---
**Author:** ![dopetalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dopetalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dopetalker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/27 "2002-07-05T08:10:43Z")
Dongs were always more prevalent and accepted in mainstream movies in other countries, but, while this one’s the best, there’s some things it’s just beginning to explore (finally) so if you mean THIS ---
**Author:** ![dopetalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dopetalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dopetalker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/28 "2002-07-05T08:12:31Z")
so if you mean THIS country, it was just recently. But in a country like, say, France the first was probably decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913/29 "2002-07-05T14:41:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dopetalker \* > \*\*so if you mean THIS country, it was just recently. But in a country like, say, France the first was probably decades ago. \*\* If you consider _Medium Cool_ (1969) to be “recently” and not “decades ago.” Can you name any such French movies? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-mainstream-movie-to-show-a-penis/112913.md?page=1)