How prosthetic penises in shows like HBO's 'Minx' reinforce existing stereotypes and taboos

By Peter Lehman, Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University

Entertainment Weekly recently published an interview with actor Taylor Zakhar Perez, teasing the piece with a headline about Perez “baring it all” as a nude model for a 1970s magazine centerfold in the first episode in HBO Max’s “scandalous” new show, “Minx.”

The real scandal, in my view, is not the promised nudity but the way it’s misrepresented. Perez never actually appears fully nude in that episode. He wears a prosthetic penis.

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