Lilo, MUk has a point. Scenes of "apparent" nudity can be shot without nudity whether in a brothel or on the boardwalk. Many (probably most) directors today just don't care about any of the moral implications of what they film because "the human body is a thing of beauty".
To each their own. Every person has their own idea about what is gratuitous or not. I would not deny that some directors/actors/producers use nudity unnecessarily. But for me
Boardwalk Empire doesn't fall into that category-not yet anyway.
I think that if you're going to tell a honest story about pimps (Capone and Torrio), drug dealers (Luciano), strippers,hookers and kept women (Jimmy's Mother, Lucy and most women that Nucky is interested in) there must be some nudity. How much? That's an artistic decision subject to market considerations like anything else.
