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This show is about a novelist. Not exactly a sexy start, but just you wait. It isn’t called Californication for nothing. You see, in addition to writer’s block and alcoholism, this novelist also just so happens to be dealing with sex addiction, and that’s where his life story gets really interesting. We’re pretty sure the producers of this show sat down and asked themselves, “what premise would allow us to show the most skin?” And thus, “Californication” was born. There are plenty of nude scenes featuring Duchovny and his co-stars. If you like your nuditity mixed with booze and cigarettes, this is the show for you.
When a television show hires actors from the porn industry, you know there’s going to be a lot of nude scenes. This fantasy series, based on the books by George R.R. Martin, shows some serious skin. We’re talking about full frontal male nudity and boobs for miles. Though the ice zombies, dragons and epic setpieces might be what has viewers hooked, it’s all this explicit content that really keeps people talking. From its very first season, the series has delivered some of the most bold nudity seen on tv, and over the seasons, it hasn’t exactly lost its love for showing skin in compromising positions.
There was a time when you could turn on virtually any premium cable show late at night and be reasonably assured that you could see a nude scene—an actor at least one breast, a butt, or possibly even a penis. Sometimes these shows were overtly erotic, like Showtime’s Red Shoe Diaries or the softcore movies on the platform that came to be known as “Skinemax.” Other times they were ostensibly sexual, but frequently non-titillating, like ’s Real Sex, which traumatized an entire generation with its commitment to graphic portrayals of aging hippies with weird fetishes and polyamorous lifestyles. Real Sex was the soft-porn equivalent of your dad catching you smoking and making you finish the whole pack.
Different nudity seems far truer than no nudity, and indeed, in trying to think of shows that still have nude scenes, I initially glossed over a few that I’d seen and enjoyed. Not because they didn’t exist, but simply because they didn’t fit my childhood conception of what a “nude scene” was. i.e., something created and received largely for titillation alone, to let you know that you were watching something illicit and naughty. That doesn’t really square with, say, , a show that has consistent nudity, but where it’s used exclusively as a punchline. In other shows, nudity can be more of a character choice, or something essential to maintaining the reality of the scene (if the show is about the porn industry or sex research, say). In Euphoria, instilling an air of naughtiness still seems intentional. White Lotus seems to strike a balance between nudity as a punchline and sexy nudity (male nudity generally being used for comedy far more often than female nudity).
Harlots is a Hulu series that tells the story of brothels in London in the 1760s. Since this show took place mostly inside a brothel, there is a lot of nudity throughout the series. The story follows a specific brothel owned by Samantha Morton’s Margaret Wells, a madam who fights for her rights as the brothel owner, battling the police, religious organizations, and more. There are a lot of sex scenes in the series, and this means there is a lot of nudity, both female breasts and both male and female from behind. However, this is a feminist series and does a lot to show the power of these women, never exploiting them with its nude scenes.
