[Romulus]

It also doesn't seem to me to be appropriate for a church.

I'll grant you it's never been in the mainstream of iconographic tradition in East or West. Still, we do have full-frontal nude Christs in the ancient ceiling mosaics of the Ravenna baptistries. Perhaps the real problem is our own fallen response to nudity. Given the Church's inadequate catechesis on the matter of the body, which results in the faithful's scandalised inability to deal with the unveiled image, I regretfully conclude that you're right about nude Christs being questionable in the context of ordinary parish churches serving the essentially uncatechised and unformed faithful.

Jansenist nudity hysteria on display here

[annalex]

Jansenist nudity hysteria on display

That thread is an absolutely heroic, and successful, effort of yours.

[eastsider]

The presence of a crucifix on the altar at every Catholic Mass throughout the world began about mid-3rd century in response to the anathema of docetism -- the heresy that Christ only seemed to have a body -- to remind everyone seeing it that Christ died a real death; that His Body present on the altar is real; that the miracle of the Incarnation is not a illusion.

Those who clamor for women's ordination are nothing more than modern-day docetists who insist that the maleness of Christ, our High Priest, is a contingent reality. To combat these neo-docetists, IMO every crucifix on every altar throughout the world should bear a nude corpus, to remind everyone seeing it that the Body of Christ, our High Priest, is really male.