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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWe appreciate the courage! And the realism. But things have gotten a little out of control: an argument\n\nBack in olden times, at the dawn of exposed flesh on TV, nakedness was milquetoast. It was heteronormative consensual sex by good-looking people with large teeth, often named Courtney Thorne-Smith or Yasmine Bleeth. It was polished, priggish, and less than graphic. Watching a few episodes of NYPD Blue, you'd maybe get an artfully lit sideboob and a patch of muscled back. But even then, you'd only really know that these suggestive portions of flesh were doing it because of the sax solo.\n\nBut now? If you're watching Girls, the way you recognize a sex scene is by watching Hannah Horvath's wholly disrobed mom getting railed from behind by the dude from Bosom Buddies. It's no longer enough to show breasts. The nakedness must be naturalistic. I know everyone was just trying to transcend clich\u00E9, but watching Louis C.K. lowering his fortysomething slab of pallid dad-meat into a tub for the season-four finale made me feel like we've possibly overshot the mark.\n\nThis isn't just a cheap shot at Louis's body. And it's not that I want to go back to when only really attractive people with starving eyes and totally symmetrical pencil-eraser nipples frolicked in the buff. It's more that Louis's expansive, quivering vulnerability brought me to a moment of fatigue. At first, I welcomed real-people nakedness. It was refreshing and sort of British. But stuff like Nicky and Big Boo's \"fallopian relay race\" of sexual conquest on Orange Is the New Black\u2014that's assaultive, and it's too close. It's like TV wants to have the kind of relationship where you can poop with the door open, and that's a relationship I don't even want with a spouse.\n\nDon't get me wrong\u2014I love my shows. I would never give up The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious programs. I've just reached my saturation point. I'm in my midthirties, and I have my own physical ruin to contend with. In the highest definition possible\u2014life. And shit is real.\n\nRelated:\n\n The 16 Most Important Moments in Naked TV History"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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