(Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com):
BTW, is it just prudery that I seldom see nudity in american movies, or are there laws against it? If so, this might become a similar problem.
America is the porn capital of the world,...
Apparently Jim has never been to Amsterdam. :-)
But for the most part, he's right: there are no restrictions on nudity in movies, but the American market is such that too much explicit sex will actually hurt the mass-market value of a movie. French folks don't have a problem taking their kids to nice family movie that happens to have a bit of nudity in it. American parents in the heartland will consider a movie with any nudity to be for adults only, and its market will be hurt.