Bethany Bell reports in "The shock of the (male) nude" that naked male statues exhibited at the Leopold museum in Vienna because Tobians Natter, the director of the museum, totally supported them and his reasons are to keep some previous cultures, to more modern works and to more diverse exhibition. It is said that Eva Kernauer, art historian from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, analysed this exhibition that male nudes generally exist as female nudes but there are some differences in depiction; consequently, she tended to support this idea as the museum direct.
According to this news, male nudes have been exist for a long time; however, personally, it is not because of the simplicity in society. It is because of masculinity; in other words, men have been more important and have been admired from majority. Today, it exists although it's power has been gradually decreasing. That is the reasons why there are mostly female nudes exhibition; it has been believed that women are entertaining. In addition, it might be because most of artists who work with this kind of art are masculine.
Reference
The shock of the (male) nude.(2012, November 19). BBC NEWS. Retrieved November 19, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20218094.
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