History Main / NationalGeographicNudity

Sometimes this is like InnocentFanserviceGirl on a culture-wide scale. See also PoorMansPorn for when National Geographic Nudity is used for more titillating purposes. May carry UnfortunateImplications that people from "primitive" cultures are automatically unsexy.

* [[EarthsChildren ''The Clan of the Cave Bear'']], set in prehistoric times, does this in the Clan Meeting scene, with several female members of other clans casually bare-breasted.

* ''The Clan of the Cave Bear'', set in prehistoric times, does this in the Clan Meeting scene, with several female members of other clans casually bare-breasted.

This trope is dominant on the Australian TV network SBS.

* ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is another example, although it ''is'' a comedy. The protagonist (a Bushman from the Kalahari Desert in Africa) wears only a loincloth that covers his genitals but bares his buttocks. He sets out on a quest across the continent for reasons too complicated to mention here. Along the way he sees many non-Bushman Africans, both black and white, and is puzzled by their "multicolored skins," and the fact they often have different colored "skins" on different parts of their body (i.e., clothes). He also spies a woman in her underwear (a lacy white bra and slip) and wonders why she has covered herself with cobwebs.

* ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is another example, although it ''is'' a comedy. The protagonist (a Bushman from the Kalahari Desert in Africa) wears only a loincloth that covers his genitals but bares his buttocks. He sets out on a quest across the continent for reasons too complicated to mention here. Along the way he sees many non-Bushman Africans, both black and white, and is puzzled by their "multicolored skins," and the fact they often have different colored "skins" on different parts of their body (i.e., clothes). He also spies a woman in her underwear (a lacy bra and slip) and wonders why she has covered herself with cobwebs.

* ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is another example, although it ''is'' a comedy.

Sometimes this is like InnocentFanserviceGirl on a culture-wide scale. See also PoorMansPorn for when National Geographic Nudity is used for more titillating purposes.

This trope is dominant on the Australian TV network SBS, to the point where they actually have a weekly program called 'Erotic Tales'

* This trooper still shudders at a recollection of a Nat-Geo scene of breast-ironing on a 12 years-old girl. What? The nipples we pixelated (with about one square pixel each).

** Actually, I don't think the PG-13 rating was racial discrimination so much as the fact that the buttocks, being primarily used for, uh, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a function other than sex]], aren't really considered "dirty." There are plenty of films in which ''Caucasian'' rear nudity results in a PG-13 rating (''HappyGilmore'', for instance).

Sometimes this is like InnocentFanserviceGirl on a culture-wide scale. See also PoorMansPorn for when National Geographic Nudity is used for more titillating purposes. This can result in UnfortunateImplications if the nudity seems to suggest that the native peoples are subhuman. In fact, ''National Geographic'' was praised a few years back for finally getting around to portraying a white (albeit [[DarkSkinnedBlond tanned]]) woman topless in a tropical setting - and yes, it ''was'' durned good {{Fanservice}}.

* ''Quest for Fire'', set in the Stone Age.

-->''When I was an adolescent, the only reliable source of breast visuals was National Geographic, a magazine then devoted, as far as I can tell, to doing feature articles on every primitive tribe in the world in which the women went around topless. When I was in junior high school, my friends and I were '''extremely''' interested in these articles, specifically the photographs that had captions like "A young woman of the Mbonga tribe prepares supper using primitive implements." We would spend long periods of time staring at the young woman's implements, and we'd wonder how come we'd had the incredibly bad luck of being born in the one society in the entire world (judging from National Geographic) wherein women wore a lot of clothes.''
-->--''DaveBarry's Guide to Guys''

* ''MedicineMan'' has several scenes with almost or completely naked men, women and children, including a pair of shots of a line of [[MaleGaze women buttocks]] when said women are helping the heroine in her scienstific research. But since all naked people are Native American, the movie got a PG-13 rating.

Sometimes this is like InnocentFanserviceGirl on a culture-wide scale. See also PoorMansPorn for when National Geographic Nudity is used for more titillating purposes. This can result in UnfortunateImplications if the nudity seems to suggest that the native peoples are subhuman. In fact, ''National Geographic'' was praised a few years back for finally getting around to portraying a white (albeit tanned) woman topless in a tropical setting.

This trope is dominant on SBS, to the point where they actually have a weekly program called 'Erotic Tales'

Sometimes this is like InnocentFanserviceGirl on a culture-wide scale. See also PoorMansPorn for when National Geographic Nudity is used for more titillating purposes.