The editor of a fictional 1970s-era nudie magazine played by Ophelia Lovibond says, “A magazine has got to make you feel something, and seeing a naked guy does that to a woman.”

It’s summed up in the first episode of HBO Max’s phallus-filled comedy Minx, directed by Rachel Greenberg and now streaming. With greater diversity in filmmaking and at networks like HBO - where a lot of this exposure is taking place - cameras are shifting to the female gaze. Screenwriter Kim Morgan included a buff moment in Nightmare Alley for Philly’s Bradley Cooper. Jane Campion directed Benedict Cumberbatch’s bare-the-jewels scene in the Academy Award-winning Power of the Dog. The reason for the uptick in penis sightings is simple: There are more women, gay men, and nonbinary folks in writers’ and directors’ seats.