'Five seconds, yes, 20 seconds, no!' Judd Apatow reveals the rules of male nudity onscreen and Girls sex scenes that were too steamy for HBO

HBO is famous for pushing the boundaries of nudity and sex on TV.
But Girls executive producer Judd Apatow has revealed the limits that the usually permissive premium channel slapped on the controversial sex scenes he and star-co-executive producer Lena Dunham wanted to film. Speaking to students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he said: 'There have been things on Girls where HBO has said to us, "If we put this on TV, we literally could lose our licence to broadcast 'Let’s just say it’s something you see in adult film - elements of sexual intercourse.
 The high points of sexual intercourse.'
 But the 46-year-old expanded on the subject when talking about his previous movies. 'We’ve experimented with the limits of what people can handle.
We’ve had a male organ in movies. We found out that 20 seconds of someone naked is probably too much, and people will leave the theatre if you have full frontal nudity for an extended period of time. 'But if you make it five seconds they’ll laugh and say it was great. So basically that’s the ratio of how much penis people can handle in a movie.
Five seconds yes, 20 seconds no,' the celebrity told the audience on March 12, according to The Hollywood Reporter 'We’re always going too far and then deciding where the line is.' Girls is currently airing its third season of 12 episodes that kicked off on January 12.
The series has been renewed for a fourth season, which will premiere in 2015. Judd said he expected the show to extend into six seasons, adding:
 'I guess that could change. It’s not set. I think we’re all committed that we’ll do six.' He and Lena have no idea how the comedy will end, although they have discussed it. 'It makes you respect the ending of The Sopranos,' he said of the iconic HBO series that showed mob boss Tony Soprano having dinner with his family in an Italian restaurant - and then cut to a black screen that left millions of viewers thinking something had gone wrong with their TVs. 'The idea that you just stop and leave people there is so genius, it’s such a great idea. It’s such a great way of saying, "It doesn’t matter. This is their life and now we’re just going to leave them to it."'

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