Nudity in Film

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It takes so many years to get out of the prude censorship, to a time when women would say, "The body is beautiful" or "If using my body gets me a better job, so be it, more power to me and all women" and there's also some that think it's degradation. Of course, they are not in the movie, or any movie, but they know mentioning it gets them views/money, and the lawyers are involved, and there's pressure maybe to not show skin (especially now when everyone knows their audiences), but there's also some directors who might not have any plans to show breasts, but changes their mind.. Maybe the producer is pressuring the director about how much they spent, and how showing some boobs will increase viewership, using it as a tag-line... When I was a teen, I remember people going to see movies ONLY because of nudity. "Halle Berry shows her boobs in 'Swordfish'" (I didn't see it, but I could always see a clip if I was THAT interested). Once the Hays Code was lifted, nudity wasn't just used for the hell of it in good movies. I would hope we could self-censor, because I find most of them corny. Not the nudity, but the silly scene itself. Be real, or be creative with a scene in "Ryan's Daughter", or not, but it seems there's so many groups who might not care, but know it's the currency of the moment, and "sex sells". If there's a man and woman kissing, and the picture dissolves, I know what's going to happen next, and it might be best to move to the next scene, but again, there should be more than 2 approaches - artistic vs. exploitation. What really bugs me is when people I know will make a comment on a movie in retrospect, when they said the opposite a few years ago, but they know it doesn't pay, and that's what bugs me... People are being fooled, and everything becomes so personalized, that so many I talk with are becoming echoes. "Yeah, Trump said exactly the same sentence word for word" but that in of itself becomes a way to dismiss something with the guilt of association.