Paid TV services like HBO and Showtime are great for a number of reasons: they allow more artistic integrity for showrunners than any network would, and they don’t have to bleep out any swear words. But a triumph of paid subscription services is all the dick slips. Men can drop down to just their birthday suits on this kind of television, and there have been plenty of shows that have taken advantage of this fact through the years. (Although gender parity has yet to be reached.)

And so in honor of the season premiere of Game of Thrones (a show that absolutely takes advantage of the male nudity policy), we present our 5 Favorite TV Dick Slips.

1. The Cute Male Prostitute in Game of Thrones 

Seriously, the importance of the penises that Game of Thrones has put on television cannot be stressed enough. Sure, there’s a lot of horrible objectification of women that goes down in this fantasy epic, but they have the decency to give the same treatment to some of the boys. No better display of this can be found than with Olyvar, a sly prostitute who heated up a good portion of the fourth season. He was also a spy, proving that he didn’t need to rely on his natural talents.

2. Thomas Jane in Hung 

In a show about a high school-teacher turned male prostitute to make money off his extremely large penis, one has to wonder, “Will I get to see said extremely large penis?” The answer is yes, but only if you’re paying close attention. Hunky lead Thomas Jane was kind enough to go the distance for his art in this hilariously raunchy show. And though his package may have only been a guest star, it made enough of a mark to cement his place among television’s finest.

3. Alexander Skarsgård in True Blood

There is a lot of sex in True Blood. These are, after all, vampires, and vampires have a lot of sex. Fortunately for us, the male cast of assorted vampires, werewolves and other magically horny creatures, have no shame in baring it all for the camera. But easily most fetching of all is Alexander Skarsgård, the huge hulking beast of a man who plays vampiric leader Eric. Easily the most memorable moment in the show came in a lengthy sunbathing scene, one so hot that he literally bursts into flames by the end of it.

4. The Hunky Gardner in Sex and the City

Men are objectified left and right in the iconic Sex and the City, but it was a rare moment when the show about our favorite New York women would get truly, deeply steamy. A scene in the show’s third season involving goodie-two-shoe Charlotte’s fantasies of her gardener get so steamy that it practically fogs up the screen. The dick of the gardener in question is only just visible, but the full affect of his bathing scene is like being crammed in the shower with him up close and personal.

5. Luke Perry in Oz

If you grew up in the 1990s, like this author, then Luke Perry never strayed far from your mind. He was a true teen angel: handsome, sweet, mild-mannered and so, so, totally cool. So it was a bit of a shock when he got cast in Oz, the very mature show about prison life, let alone that he was cast as a preacher. But if Oz is known for anything, it’s for the absurd amount of penises that are on display, and Perry was no exception. Seeing the quintessential 1990s dream boy in all his glory is almost too good to be true, like the greatest of wet dreams brought to vivid, vivid life.

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