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But hey, what about finding a way to hide the model's face (if necessary) without cutting off the head? A mask with your trademark or something? I'm affraid that as long as your pictures show headless naked bodies, it will hardly stop resembling those pieces of female nudity thrown in the internet for male pleasure and nothing more...
Good luck,
Angie
I think that faces can enhance the empowerment of a female nude image. However I also beleive that a body crop shot emanates an energy without a face being shown. I guess what you are saying is that when a man sees a naked body crop that this has them feel one type of energy. For a man who reacts to the shot from his conditioning I agree 100%. However if the man is open to his senses then he will get a different reaction to my nude crops.Perhaps we also have a different view of male pleasure. I do not see that a man who lusts is actually in real pleasure. He is more in his mind than in his senses. However to my mind the sight of a beautiful nude female body presented with beauty in mind is an empowering pleasure. These sort of images that bring this sort of pleasure are in my opinion a positive for men and women. Any negativity arising from such images to me is coming from conditioning not from the image itself. Very complex topic but also a very important one that I research deeply and regularly. In general I beleive that attractive women and how they are presented and viewed is a great negative in society. However I beleive the best way to turn a negative into a positive is to educate rather than censor.
Best Wishes Tony.
This is a picture of a womans torso...not her face. I think the guy who took the picture (the artist) decides what he wants us to see, right? It's called expression and it's what makes his work unique. Does someone tell you what your "art" is?
All social hang ups aside, there's also no reason men shouldn't aknowledge the natural arousal that occures when we encounter images such as these. We are who we are, viseral, visual creatures. It is nature that made us this way and has given us that response to the female form. We are different from women. It's in our DNA. We dont just switch it on at puberty and let it lead us around the rest of our lives as she suggests, nor are we able to just shut it off. Denying nature is what brings about abhorrent behavior, it's a fact. It's what you do with that response that is a reflection of our civility, humanity and culture.
These are beautiful images even without the face...We need more beauty like this in the world.
Maybe if she had a little broader and realistic opinion of men and what and how we think, how an artist chooses to crop their work wouldnt matter so much.