Do actors use prosthetics in naked scene of non-porn movies? And why? [closed]
Watching (non-pornographic) movies that contains nudity, I noticed that sometimes the genitals of the actors or actresses look fake. For example, in The Master (2012) there's a scene with many naked women, and it seems to me that their privates are actually covered by some merkins. Similarly, in other movies I noticed naked actors with what I believed to be the "male version" of merkin, although now I can't remember which specific movies.
Is it true that nudity is sometime faked using this prosthetic? And why?
My guess is that it is done to circumvent some rating rules, like the directors/producers want a scene with nudity but they don't want the movie being rated for nudity and so they cover the actors/actresses' genitals with prosthetics.
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SOMETIMES
Return of the Living Dead (1985) used a prosthetic on Trash's (Linnea Quigley) vagina to make it smooth. This was to avoid being unrated because she was naked and dancing in a sexually suggestive way in a cemetery. (The film also has some extreme gore effects, so graphic full-frontal nudity didn't help.)
Sadly, I cannot link to the RotLD commentary or the documentary "MORE BRAINS!" One or both of these confirm this.
That is one example. Many movies have straight-up nudity.
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