In the brilliant TV drama "Rome", there is a scene where Mark Antony is having a conversation with the centurion Lucius Vorenus in a gym while a servant is scraping him down after exercise. And Mark Antony is naked, the full frontal Monty.
To be sure, this is a brief moment and I had to re-watch to make sure that I did not imagine this.
I noticed that the same segment was to be aired again and watched it, but when it came to the scene in the gym, Mark Antony suddenly was clad in a big, red towel.
Who, I wonder, decides when and where people are allowed to watch a naked person.
Does there, I wonder, exist two copies of what some might think of as unsavory moments, one for the US and one for the rest of the world.
And what is so upsetting about the naked male ? Could it be, as I begin to suspect, penis envy ?
When one at times get to see the folks who make these arbitrary decisions, it is easy to believe that that might be a very substantial part of the reason, and you cannot, not even if you are the Attorney General of the United States, cover up all nude statues in the world.
So live with it and, if nudity offends you, avert your eyes for that brief moment.
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