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Isn't it absurd to have a picture of a man with a completely shaved pubic region (and completely shaved body altogether) on an encyclopedic page, and even more absurd to have below the same picture with « digitally added pubic hair » ? The same can be said about the “woman” illustration.--Abolibibelot (talk) 14:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Issue of coiffed representation of man

An unsigned comment was made above and I am in strong agreement. Representations of what man looks like has always caused debate and I refer you to page Pioneer plaque where man is also shown with no pubic hair and a woman is depicted with no sex organ at all. However, these are just line drawings and not photographs. Another problem with the current model is the shape of the body is does not represent a healthy male. No matter what picture was used would invoke some degree of debate. I will attempt to work out a solution that doesn't involve faked photographs, however, need to discuss with a model I have in mind. Discussion of this photo is also found at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Human male body Pbmaise (talk) 06:56, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

WP:Be Bold and submit what you like. Derivatives from this picture are already used in hundreds of articles, so be sure to check these so that you will have some idea of how new pictures will be used. See User:Mikael Häggström/Diagrams. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:13, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

I added a signature for my 2011 comment above (time flies!).--Abolibibelot (talk) 04:33, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

@Pbmaise — So... did it get changed over the last eight years, as anounced above, or did it stay there by the sheer force of status quo ? (I don't remember on which article I had seen that picture.) I still stand by what I wrote then : it's quite ridiculous, both the hairlessness of the original picture and the addition of fake hair on modified versions. Although I don't quite get what was meant above by "does not represent a healthy male" — granted the dude's not athletic, but he's not obese or doesn't show obvious signs of alcohol / drug abuse or any debilitating disease, this is quite representative of the "average" aspect of a young male body — unless we consider with Arnold Schwarzenegger that a bodybuilder's physique is "what the body's supposed to look like" and the epitome of health (which I could agree with, laffffing notwithstanding, up to a certain point, but not so much in an encyclopedic context).--Abolibibelot (talk) 05:02, 17 October 2019 (UTC)