So it appears I'm one of the few photographers to post male nudity here and I have had some very positive feedback on the images I've posted and a few people who said quite literally "this forum should only be for female nudes". That's exactly what one guy said—indeed, he specified young, pretty, female nudes. I was very surprised in this day and age that in a forum about serious nude or semi-nude photography of the body someone would declare it should only focus on female work and you kind of have to wonder if these guys who said such are really interested in photography or more interested in ogling pretty ladies. Because it sounds like that's all that interests them here, all they wish to see.

Back to the issue of penis vs. vagina, I've seen other photographers here post full frontal female nudes. You are seeing what you'd see if you walked in and the lady was nude. In my work, you see full frontal male nudes. In neither case are you seeing porn or direct suggestion of sexual activity, so I think it's on the same level.

I would hope as long as this form is labeled "Nude Photography, Boudoir Photography, NSFW, Discussions and Pictures" then it allows both female and male and all manner of tasteful erotic photography of adults.

Is there a double standard here?

One can post self-portrait with a penis visible but showing a vagina is deemed obscene by some.

Pray tell, what is the difference? Both are sex organs, nothing more, nothing else.

I do not see the point of showing either. If you allow one but refuse the other, you are wrong.

Pushing the obscenity to its extreme, a naked breast, man or woman is way too sexualized, so both should be banned or both accepted. The hypocrisy over women's breasts is baffling to me.

If you had two cent of sense you would realize