Tom Ford
“As much as I’ve tried, it has been consistently harder to get images of nude men onto magazine pages and billboards than it has nude women. In a society where images of brutal violence are consumed during breakfast, the male nude is one of our last taboos. There’s a double standard at play here: magazines that are happy to fund ads featuring an artfully lit female nude will balk at an image of her male counterpart.”
Tom Ford
Apparently, Tom Ford was shocked to find that all the penises on the recently published GQ style magazine (that Ford curated himself) were censored.
“I was really pissed off about that. That wasn’t why I got [involved]. It was supposed to be full-frontal male nudity, which was the way we shot it, and then the magazine censored all that!”
“Because I find the human body beautiful, I don’t find sex objectionable. Violence is objectionable.”
Source: Gaymeninternational.com