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But with women it's not how much of a woman are you, it's how beautiful of a woman are you,' he continued.

How much of a man are you? That's a common question. 'We live in a culture where we define masculinity as something which is quantitative.

But we connect the penis, which is just really an organ, with this powerful symbolic notion,' Lehman said. No one man or woman can really have that kind of phallic power. The symbolism of the phallus is an extreme sense of power, which is actually imaginary. And the phallus is actually a symbolic thing. 'The penis is strongly connected in many people's minds with the phallus. So the choice to show it at all-and then the choice of in what context, for how long, and how long the penis even is-all of that plays off of ideas we already have about masculinity. Society has conditioned us to associate the penis with manliness, and therefore with power. Lehman goes on to say we have to think about seeing naked penises differently than we'd think about butts, or boobs, or what have you. If a woman has breast enlargement surgery, for example, then it really is part of her body,' Lehman told Newsweek. A prosthetic penis is a costume that you put on just to fool people-in the shot, that this is your penis-and then you take it off. Peter Lehman, Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University, thinks it's a bit of a misnomer to consider this moment a huge advancement in equality. Prosthetic penises have been used in a number of shows sometimes it's to reflect the character's penile size (like on Minx or Netflix's Sex Education), but in other cases it simply conceals the actor's body (as done in HBO's Euphoria). The use of a prosthetic on many different programs, not just Minx, has inspired an interesting conversation: are we actually in a full-frontal renaissance on TV, or does the use of prosthetic penises somehow continue the double standard between male and female nudity in Hollywood? Idara Victor, Jake Johnson, Jessica Lowe, Ophelia Lovibond, Oscar Montoya from HBO Max's 'Minx.' Photograph by Katrina Marcinowski / HBO Max At no point did I feel like it was an uncomfortable situation.' 'It's kind of an awkward situation, obviously. And from there they can put the prosthetic in place. For lack of a better term, you have to tuck. They have to move your bits out of the way.

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It takes a while-I mean, you're standing there, pretty naked, for I want to say an hour? Hour and a half, to put it on? And they have to make it match your skin tone, they have to make sure it's sticking in place. 'You're in the makeup trailer, kind of in the back. But I think it definitely kind of helped put me at ease a little bit, especially since this is my first ever time being on camera like that.'Īs Crnkovich explained, in great detail, getting a prosthetic penis is no walk in the park. I mean, you get a good shot on my backside, too. 'I think it did give me a little more peace of mind knowing that it wasn't actually me on film. His performance is enhanced by a prosthetic. It's just something that's sort of necessary for the character.'īut it isn't fully Crnkovich in the scene. The character calls for having a very large penis. 'So I think when they cast that, they want to get a good actor for the role, first and foremost. 'When you're talking about the male porn industry, they want these characters that are very well endowed,' Crnkovich told Newsweek. The only difference between the model and David is one particularly large appendage. In one particularly memorable scene, a model named Dane (played by newcomer Nate Crnkovich) is hired to pose in a photoshoot inspired by Michelangelo's David statue. Jessica Lowe, Oscar Montoya, Lennon Parham from HBO Max's 'Minx.' Photograph by Katrina Marcinowski / HBO Max