# What was the most NON-GRATUITOUS piece of nudity you've ever seen in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761 "2019-12-12T16:43:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/21 "2019-12-13T01:35:35Z")
It was an HBO movie, but Strip Search had very integral, and very uncomfortable nudity. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/22 "2019-12-13T01:58:42Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Wrong thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=886695) 🙂 Yes. What a putz I was. Damn similar titles. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/23 "2019-12-13T02:20:08Z")
A 1976 Japanese movie (that could not be shown unedited in Japan) called “In the Realm of the Senses,” which told a supposedly true story about an obsessive sexual relationship before WWII, had not only full frontal nudity of both sexes, but actual sex acts on screen. It was not pornography (no close-ups, for one thing) but it did have a tough time getting shown in some parts of the world. Although the story could have been told less graphically, the nudity and sex was pretty much the entire story. One bit of hypocrisy and irony in the Japanese movie biz: the lead actor, Tatsuya Fuji, suffered no ill effects on his career from this film, even though we saw his willy both soft and hard, and in use, during the film. He is still a busy working actor today. But his leading lady, Eiko Matsuda, was nearly blackballed for her part, and only worked on a few more films, the last one in 1982. She died in 2011. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/24 "2019-12-13T02:31:24Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > But his leading lady, Eiko Matsuda, was nearly blackballed for her part Are we still doing phrasing? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/25 "2019-12-13T08:27:30Z")
Kathy Bates getting into the hot tub in “About Schmidt.” I saw that movie on opening weekend and we did not know that scene was in the movie. The only other time I’ve heard a movie audience howl that loudly in reaction to a scene they didn’t know was in the movie was the “choking on vomit” sequence in “This Is Spinal Tap”, the first time I saw it in a theater. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/26 "2019-12-13T14:13:21Z")
The above reference to “uncomfortable nudity” reminded me of the film _Babel_. I will not attempt to summarize or characterize it further, it really merits watching. N.B.: It is _heartbreaking_. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/27 "2019-12-13T22:27:28Z")
> [@YamatoTwinkie](#): > > _Schindler’s List_ And most any movie regarding the Holocaust and the like. (_Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS_ and such, excluded.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/28 "2019-12-13T22:51:03Z")
**The Magdalene Sisters** had a scene where a priest examines the–prisoners? Inmates? Not sure how to describe their status–in the shower. It was very comparable to a similar scene in **Schindler’s List**. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/29 "2019-12-13T22:54:39Z")
A nude Arnie arrives from the future in Terminator. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/30 "2019-12-13T23:21:44Z")
In _The Crying Game_, Dil’s intentionally startling nude scene is absolutely essential to the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/31 "2019-12-14T00:55:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > In _The Crying Game_, Dil’s intentionally startling nude scene is absolutely essential to the plot. Ninja’ed AGAIN! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/32 "2019-12-14T01:28:39Z")
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/33 "2019-12-14T01:49:45Z")
> [@YamatoTwinkie](#): > > _Schindler’s List_ This is the one I came in to mention. Male and female prisoners, all ages, shapes and sizes, being paraded in from of the Nazi doctors, to determine which ones might be useful workers. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/34 "2019-12-14T02:16:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > This is the one I came in to mention. Male and female prisoners, all ages, shapes and sizes, being paraded in from of the Nazi doctors, to determine which ones might be useful workers. But the girlfriend nudity was absolutely gratuitous and out of character for Spielberg. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/35 "2019-12-14T02:26:39Z")
_A Room With a View_. The full frontal nudity scene of the village vicar cavorting with the younger boys in a totally non-sexual way in the swimming hole, just letting go and succumbing to the simple joy of the moment, humanized him in a wonderful way. Maybe my all-time favorite film ever. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/36 "2019-12-14T10:35:18Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > **The Magdalene Sisters** had a scene where a priest examines the–prisoners? Inmates? Not sure how to describe their status–in the shower. It was very comparable to a similar scene in **Schindler’s List**. Yes, you just reminded me of _The Pawnbroker_. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/37 "2019-12-14T15:31:00Z")
Since Halle Berry has been mentioned in the other thread for “Swordfish”, she should be mentioned here for “Monster’s Ball”. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/38 "2019-12-15T03:42:56Z")
There’s an HBO/BBC movie about a dirty bomb going off in London. I forget the name of the movie, but it’s very well done. There is a scene of random citizens being decontaminated before they are allowed to leave the area. Everyone is stripped of their clothes and they go through a very harsh shower. There is no segregating of the sexes or anything. It is very dehumanizing. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/39 "2019-12-15T05:27:29Z")
Karen Allen in **Invasion of the Body Snatchers** : Gratuitous or no? I could go either way. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-non-gratuitous-piece-of-nudity-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/844761/40 "2019-12-15T08:47:56Z")
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