If Judd Apatow is an evangelist spreading the gospel of nonsexual nudity on-screen, then his minions may well inherit the earth.

Last year, the comedic guru vowed to offer a visible penis in every new movie he makes: “America fears the penis and that’s something I’m going to help them get over,” he declared.

This proclamation came after members of a test audience walked out of a screening of his Johnny Cash spoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” during extended shots of a penis behind actor John C. Reilly’s head during an orgy scene.

But Mr. Apatow’s dedication to genital liberation for comedic value doesn’t stop there. He included an extended “c—umentary” on the DVD for “Walk Hard,” filled his high school spoof film “Superbad” with penis drawings, and attacked audiences of “Knocked Up” with shots of a baby’s head crowning during the pivotal birth scene.

If “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” which Mr. Apatow produced, is any indication, the trend may have a following. Director and star Jason Segel unabashedly displays his, er, self to the camera to get laughs — for cringe-inducingly long shots.

Male-focused films have long obsessed over the holy grail of female nudity. But while they still acknowledge the thirst for sexy females — Kristen Bell’s title character in “Sarah Marshall” worries aloud about doing nude scenes in a film, and characters in Mr. Apatow’s “Knocked Up” spend much of the film trying to monetize their fascination with female cinematic nudity — they are more comfortable displaying males in the buff simply for comedic effect. If our new crop of young male movie stars has anything to say about it, unsexy male nudity may be populating the Internet in years to come.