naked wizard

"It wasn't a question of horsing around when Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe took to the London stage in all his glory. The 17-year-old truly impressed with a bravura full-frontal display that earned him a standing ovation.

For his first leading role in the West End, Radcliffe chose Peter Shaffer's 34-year-old play Equus, where he plays a stable boy being treated by a psychiatrist for blinding six horses with a hoof pick." - Daily Mail, James Tapper (warning: blurred nudity)

Quickly, without delving into an arduous argument on the subjectiveness of nudity, am I the only person who seems put off by an entire room of people applauding a naked man for his nakedness? I'm not against nudity altogether (some of my favorite films have nudity in them), but this just wreaks with strange, perverted tendencies. I'd feel the same way if Radcliffe were ten years older; his age is not what has me confused and bumbling for explanatory words. Something is off, and I'm not quite sure if it is the ostentatious Radcliffe, his probing audience, or the futile meshing of both. I just don't get it. I don't get the applause. It seems awkward.

And I hate awkward.