A magical trend has been building on cable for years and it all seemed to culminate into this fantastic orgy of awesome in 2011: Nudity and quality television are no longer mutually exclusive. In fact, on HBO, on Showtime, and on Starz, the two have worked wonders together, like peanut butter and chocolate, like Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie. No longer must you resort to Skinimax for cheap, soft-core thrills. Forget the bare bones plots and the pizza delivery boys. Awesome TV and toplessness CAN co-exist, and in 2011, these ten women were the television actresses you were most likely to see nude.

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The UK’s Channel Four is fielding complaints just because of an instructive painting show.  Oh, and I guess technically it showed a model in the nude.  During lunch time hours.

The channel is showing five life drawing classes through the week as part of its education show Life Class: Today’s Nude.

Each half-hour broadcast has a different model and tutor to tell viewers about art and drawing techniques, guiding them through drawing their own picture as if they are in a real life class…

Section 1.18 of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code says: “Nudity before the watershed must be justified by the context.”

Sweet, I love justified nudity!  I’m getting pretty good at it, too.  “No, your honor, I wasn’t wearing pants.  But in my defense, have you SEEN the rack on the plaintiff!?!?”