Tongues would be wagging even though straight directors film female nude scenes all the time.

BTW, imagine if this were a gay director who did that. Which doesn’t make sense given that Nanette Burstein, GTD’s director, was supposedly so taken with Christina Applegate’s shocked reaction to Justin’s junk that she filmed the scene that way ten more times before eventually deciding not to use it. Americans as a whole are still supposedly way too squeamish to actually be confronted with a guy’s junk onscreen, especially in a romantic comedy like Going the Distance. When I saw the first headline trumpeting news about Justin Long’s inadvertent full frontal nude scene in his upcoming movie Going the Distance, I knew how the story would end before I even started it: namely, that particular scene would not end up in the movie.