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Private Dicks: Men Exposed
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Wikipedia article
'Private Dicks: Men Exposed' is a 1999 American HBO TV documentary on the human penis. The film was directed by Thom Powers and Meema Spadola who previously made HBO's 1996 'Breasts: A Documentary', a similar documentary on the breast.
Plot
The 58-minute documentary features 25 men with age ranging from young to old, and who work in a variety of professions, some of whom are professional performers. A mix of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual men, along with two transgender individuals, were interviewed. They were interviewed nude on a variety of topics related to their genitals and sexuality, including first sexual experience, frequency of masturbation, penis size, oral sex, libido, sexual performance, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Hoax
One of the people featured in the documentary, a 57-year-old musician by the name of "Bruce", was featured heavily as having an extremely small member that he claimed was "the smallest in the world. One inch, erect." "Bruce" was later revealed to be professional prankster Alan Abel. HBO decided against removing Abel from the documentary and later versions of the documentary labeled him as a professional hoaxer.
Reception
Ken Tucker of 'Entertainment Weekly' described the film as "alternately funny and quite literally touching".[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,274815,00.html Private Dicks: Men Exposed], 'Entertainment Weekly' Eric Mink of 'New York Daily News' calls the film "insightful" and "funny".[http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-03-15/entertainment/18105680_1_meema-spadola-thom-powers-breasts 'Men Exposed': Naked Truths Witty & Personal Hbo Special Reports From The Southern Front], 'New York Daily News'
Kam Williams reviewing the DVD in AALBC.com described the film as "excellent". He notes, "The directors were clever enough to contrast all this graphic present-day content intermittently with some tame file footage from stock Sexual Education films which probably passed as state-of-the-art instruction back in the Fifties." According to him, these interludes, which he labels as "antiseptic", "humorous", and "amusing", are "a welcome reminder of how far we've come from the days of learning about the birds and the bees in clinical presentations by a nervous nerd in a white lab coat standing in front of a blackboard with a pointer."[http://aalbc.com/reviews/private_dicks_men_exposed.htm Male Genitalia Uncovered, Literally and Figuratively, in Revealing Documentary] AALBC.com MaryAnn Johanson, writing in 'Flick Filosopher', asserts that it is the openness of the interviewees, not the nudity, which is significant.[http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2006/04/private_dicks_men_exposed_revi.html#axzz1qf1Ifq6K Private Dicks: Men Exposed (review)], 'Flick Filosopher'
References
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