I've Got A Bad Case Of Loving You

While in America we debate how large a fine to give out for each "shit" and "fuck" and get the vapors over a bit of male tail spied on a primetime doctor show, the UK has shows like Autopsy: Emergency Room. Hosted by Dr. Gunther von Hagens, it reveals him "slicing a frozen body in half lengthways." It then makes use of Dennis the naked model, on whom the Heimlich and other procedures are performed. Some people donate their bodies to science once they've died—check out what Dennis is bequeathing while he's' very much alive, after the jump. (From here).

What a body of work.

Comments

[ciarán]

Hmmm. . .Maybe I'll have to watch this AFTER all. von Hagens is such a complete fraud that I had originally decided to give it a miss.

[Ciarán]

OK so I finally watched this--or at least the bits that Dennis was in (or should I say Dennis's bits were in?). His naked presence on this show is gloriously gratuitous.

Needless to say, Dennis definitely makes an improvement over the dessicated corpse -- and I'm not just referring to the one on the slab. von Hagens is still much more of a clown than a scientist.

But if he brings back Dennis in the next two episodes I guess I'll watch them. (^-^)

[Matthew Rettenmund]

What a way to break into the biz!

[ciarán]

From the way Dennis stood & everything I got the impression he probably puts in regular appearances at art colleges. We don't have anyone like him posing in our life drawing classes where I work, though.

The show was filmed in Germany, by the way, so maybe that's where Dennis is from. It is a completely non-speaking part. . .

[Simon Northern UK]

I am not sure if the show was made in Germany or UK. In fact I hope it was made in Germany for a UK tv audience. The poor male model required to expose his genitalia for what purpose? There was absolutely no need for this exploitation. It was purely as a gimmick in order to get a bigger audience. Channel 4 TV has always pushed the boundaries and will happily portray porn in some instances and will find some naff reason to call it art.

If the programme required a 'look' at male genitals then maybe a discreet model whose identity could be obscured could have been used. But the show was not about that. Using live models was a good idea. I have no issues with that, I have an issue with the seemingly acceptability of more specifically the naked male as he is required to expose his genitals whilst the females are internal and covered with hair. This is purely pornography if applying the dictionary definition. The total nakedness did nothing to enhance the programme. It just served to create a gimmick that will draw an audince in. After all, who really wants to see bodies being sliced open? Furthermore, a scientific programme has reached this kind of forum. Surely that was never the intent.