Simple Tasteful Nudes
Published May 22, 2005
I'm a guy, and I enjoy looking at the beauty of a nude woman. I've seen my fill of hard core porn, and really have no use for it these days. But back in '96 when the internet really got going, the concept of free porn was very new and I dove right in.
Having grown up in the sixties and seventies, Playboy and Penthouse were the only place (for me) to see nude pictures and read stories of a sexual nature. Dusty stacks of Playboy were a treasure-trove of stimulation in the dim basement of some schoolmate's home. Nothing like that in my single (divorced) mother's household, so the occasions were rare indeed.
For me, Playboy will always be an icon of this boy's coming of age, my first opportunity to look closely at the beauty of the "too perfect" women, stretched out invitingly, or frolicking happily on some tropical beach, far far away from Oakland's gritty suburbs. But these airbrushed women were not real, how could they be? They bore no resemblance to any of the women I saw on a daily basis. They were fantasy women, nude examples of girls I would never date in real life.
As I went through my twenties, Hustler appeared on the scene, and suddenly the world of nude images (and feminine genitalia ) was opened up in a different way entirely. But as with all porn, this got stale fast, and I never quite felt comfortable dropping a Hustler mag on the counter of my local market for Marge or Sally or Betty to ring up with my beer and chips.
Fast forward to 1996. Running a small brewery required computing power, and although we never developed a web site to promote our products, we did have dial up internet. Ahh then, the images came pouring through the ether, sex beyond belief, porn in the privacy of my office. Indulge? Sure! Wanna see a lady yank a horse, yowza! How about two gals? Sure! Two Guys? Nah, but that's just a personal taste thing. Little naked girls? ABORT ABORT ABORT!!!
Even if the specter of Big Brother looking over my shoulder wasn't in my mind, the moral implications of child pornography is a complete turn off to my sexuality.
Pop up advertising started to hit the scene just as I was getting burnt out on looking at explicit sexual images, and one day, for no particular reason, I just stopped wasting my time. Everything went back to normal, and no harm was done.
- Simple Tasteful Nudes
- Published: May 22, 2005
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Books: Arts, Books: Entertainment, Culture: Photography
- Writer: Bennett Dawson
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Yo! Dave wants a site for Simple Tasteful Nude Dudes! Anyone have a link?
:-]
Hope this helps!
oh my stars and garters!
Mr Nalle sez..
*Ok, but where are the nude guys?*
very brave of you, Mr Nalle to come out of the closet right here on BlogCritics
i admire the nerve it took you to do so..have you switched to the Log Cabin sect of yoru cult formally?
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Excelsior!
Actually, my (too subtle) point was the sexism inherent in a site which only shows nude women.
Dave
That's funny Dave! Anything else?
Dave -
Most male nudes geared toward women are "tasteful" to begin with...see Playgirl.
Do I have to see playgirl? Please don't make me look at Burt Reynolds nude again.
Dave
Very few male nudes are sexy; Brad Pitt being an exception
"Brad Pitt being an exception"
Fight Club! Hottest 15 second sex scene I have ever witnessed.
The rubber glove thing kinda scares me though...
i disagree.
i think many nudes of men are quite sexy. a lot of them tend to be portraits taken by gay photographers -- stuff that's not quite in the mainstream. Greg Gorman's "as i see it" is a fabulous book and is just amazing in its depiction of masculine beauty.
i think that the female form is just inherently more beautiful, but for some reason, objectifying men hasn't ever been as popular as objectifying women and perhaps that's why there's some kind of disparity in the nudes also....
hurm..
i bet that's not what MIchelangelo said to the model posing for the "David" statue...
but i digress..
Excelsior!
There's a large paying audience for images of women, in the nude or not. There may also be a similar audience for images of men. However, with a few exceptions, these tend to be two distinct groups.
So, if there is a kind of sexism in the choice to focus on images of nude women, it is a sexism found throughout society, not only at this one web site.
"So, if there is a kind of sexism in the choice to focus..."
Exactly Victor, it's about a business being free to choose its focus. I don't care what you focus on, some pinko liberal is going to come along and accuse you of being some type of "ist" just because you have the clarity of thought to seek a focused market.
Sad really...
:-]
sorry,
i have been seeing this site since 2002
Do a weekly porn review, Bennett.
I won't read it cuz it's not my scene, bu we need one resident skeez around this site, ya know? And it better not be all tasteful either.
That is all.
I'm sorry, I should say SECOND resident skeez.
Didn't mean to slight you there, RJ :)
That is all.
Heh. Nah Bob, not my thing either. I posted this during the days a few months ago when we were invaded by some serious preacher types - suxual purity and all that.
A reactionary post of sorts.
Greg Gorman's "as i see it" is a fabulous book and is just amazing in its depiction of masculine beauty.
This book is a treasure. Of course I am biased as I love the male form but that doesn't take away from the female's body. Women have more curves and have a smooth sensuality that translated better on film whereas men are a bit more defined and come across as rather 'hard'.
Expert Pakistani sex worker? You don't say. Your parenthetical remark really clarified it for me since I wasn't sure what a "sex worker" meant.
Isn't that illegal in your country? Aren't you illegal in your country?
That is all.
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Nice post, and tasteful site, Bennett.
Sex kills - a million little deaths