Letters for March 20-26, 2008

What's a guy who likes naked women to do?: Brett Gillin is outrageously and offensively off-base to ask, "Doesn't it warm the heart to find out guys can be exploited too?" in reference to the production of The Full Monty at the Maltz Jupiter Theater ("Boys, Boys, Boys!" Calendar, February 28). Give me a break. Where has this guy been? If nudity is defined (as it should be, if one has any respect for the word) as not just toplessness but full anatomical exposure, hasn't he yet wised up to the fact that the performing arts — as represented by box office movies, live drama and cable TV — overwhelmingly exploit male nudity in preference to the female equivalent? And is there any surprise in this, given the larger viewing audience and bucks potential which media chiefs figure is represented by the combined heterosexual female/gay male population likely to get off on scenes of naked guys versus the number of straight guys and lesbians turned on by those of nude women?

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