Look! Breasts!
The internet is great! You can look at pictures of breasts!
Specifically this website, the Normal Breasts Gallery. The idea is that lots of women share pictures of their breasts, allowing us all to see that we're not hideous freaks for not having breasts like the ones in porn and in the movies.
They are a bit militant about breasts being fetishised in modern western culture as sexual objects and their primary purpose being for nurturing babies. I don't quite agree: it is true, and a bad thing, that breast feeding is seen as indecent or even disgusting by a lot of Americans especially, and breasts need to be seen as not only for sex (and sex not as disgusting), but breasts ARE for sexual pleasure, no? And wonderful things they are too.
But it is hard to enjoy them to the full if you are worrying about how ugly and abnormal they are, and for that reason I think this site is brilliant.
posted by Eloise @ 3:15 pm
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Wow, boobs that aren't totally fake on the internet. Umm, the obvious question is why you were surfing the net looking for breasts, other than to target the heterosexual man/ homosexual woman blog readership?
I've seen that site and I think it's great - also the similar one for real mothers' bodies which it links to, though that has less meaning for me at the moment .)
If we could only look at our bodies the way we look at other animals, or sculptures of the human form, we'd all find heartstopping beauty in our physical selves.
Dude, if I was surfing the internet looking for breasts, I don't think this is what I would've found!
I don't know if I agree with you Josie... humans are pretty weird-looking and ugly compared to most animals. But looked at another way, we are completely amazing... it's just miraculous that we work. I gues you are right, we just don't have the abstraction...
What I would like to see I suppose is really good photography that celebrated the beauty and sexiness - and personalities - of ordinary bodies, without fetishising ugliness. I'm sure it's out there, but I imagine pretty hard to find among all the porn!
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