Lingerie

Table is a sculpture of a woman with her chest bare wearing an under bust corset, stilettoes and black gloves. Hat Stand is a sculpture with a woman with her hands outward (as if she were a rack) with thigh high, lace-up leather boots and revealing lingerie. The third piece to the set, Chair, consists of a woman in bondage, wearing leather or latex clothing as well. His sculptures hint at rubber fetishism and BDSM and represent studies of forniphilia. Thus, Allen Jones’ portrays forniphilia,…

tattoo peeks out of his sleeve as the cobalt, crisp ocean waves slap against the ship’s flanks. This is the origin of the American Traditional pin-up tattoo, an illustration depicting a flirtatious woman with bright red lips often found wearing flimsy lingerie. The pin-up tattoo is the most noticeable subgenera of the American Traditional style, sporting bold basic colors and a thick black outline. For sailors who would be on the sea for months at a time, pin-up tattoos would provide a quiet…

Over the years, social critique has developed due to the fact that females do not have enough equality nor power. Female empowerment has become so universal that it has become sort of a pop culture phenomenon. It is the root for all the other branches that come with it like body-shaming, acceptance and bullying. The comedic movie Mean Girls was released about 13 years ago; however, many themes are still present in today’s society, especially its accurate description of high school. Mean Girls…

Svetlana Alexievich compiled Secondhand Time by amassing numerous stories about life in the Soviet Union and Russia, which were collected from former Soviet citizens of various backgrounds. The Nobel Prize winning book remarkably portrays the human condition in a way that only real stories of human life can. On the surface, Secondhand Time displays Russian life as pessimistic and death centric, however when one views the book from a deeper level they can see that Russians are driven by love,…

Jon," she moaned. I resumed kissing and biting the soft spots on her neck, taking her moan as an encouragement. Her hands traced up my forearm to my neck, inviting my lips towards her over size D breasts. I never turned down an invitation. Melissa was perched on my lap, her legs on either side of me and her back pressed against the back of my desk. Her body radiated a scent of roses, which was a huge turn on. I gripped her buttcheeks and squeezed them tightly, earning another moan. She…

Flashback: Pearls and feathers, bobs and glamour! Reality: I was sitting at the very back of my poor excuse of a high school’s plain old, bland “English 4” class in Levi mom jeans, a cropped top, and Chuck Taylors; except I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all. (Take One): Pouncing upon my sister’s Macbook Air, I was on a written escapade away from the Upper West Side’s public school nightmare and, instead, running up and down the catwalk at New York’s Couture’s 1956 Fashion Show! In a riveting, platinum…

Introduction Powers of media should not be eliminated as it has deeply influenced our ideology and controlled our life. Many media scholars agree that media can help to define humankind and provide standards for proper performance and attitudes. Media plays the leading role in drafting the blue print of both masculinity male and femininity female outlook. People tend to follow the image constructed by media as a perfect appearance is highly required for the modern society so as to increase…

In Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”, she explains how women are encouraged to behave like a woman solely for the entertainment for men. She explains how “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” in her work which shows that women are constructed by society’s norms which shapes them into a woman. These external processors change her into an ideal doll. Her claim is completely accurate because throughout history and till this day, women have been expected to act a certain way and live up…

Every star has a specific image and reputation of how they are perceived by people. This specific view, also known as the star text, is “formed by everything that the audience affiliates them with, such as their body of work, promotion, publicity and audience practices” (Jackson). Celebrities change their star text to shift the way they are perceived by the people and to be taken seriously. In the case of Ariana Grande, the Nickelodeon starlet has successfully managed to outgrow her previous…

Depression and Insecurity in Interpreter of Maladies All relationships and marriages run into problems at one point or another. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies she wrote about the various problems that come about in different relationships. There is no denying the fact that depression and insecurity are significant personal problems portrayed through the characters Jhumpa Lahiri created. A problem in some relationships is depression. In her article…