Nudity

Sexism in Magazines. With magazines now mimicking music and television by objectifying women, it is becoming typical to see nude or topless women inside or on the cover of magazines. For most people, when they think thing of sexism in magazines, Playboy comes to mind. Playboy is a men’s entertainment magazine, renowned for its display on scantily-clad women. Although this objectification of women is merely “light-hearted” entertainment for men, it should be taken so lightly. The Des Moines…

We as the viewers of art begin at the focal point of the painting Naked Maja, a reclined female nude depiction, oil on canvas created before 1800 (MUSEUM PRADO). It scales at 98 x 191 cm 1800 and was painted by artist Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes from Fuendetodos, Zaragoza and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid for public viewing (MUSEUM PRADO). Where the observer's eyes are first drawn when looking upon Naked Maja, is her face, and more distinctly her eye. Mostly due to the tendency of…

Feminist Analysis of “Blade Culture” Nude photos: They can be a great way to add spice to one’s love life, but they often end up on the internet for everyone to see. Photos of women are almost always more desirable, as male nudes often consist of nothing but a phallus, which is not exactly an appealing organ. This means that the entire practice of sending nudes ends up subordinating women. This practice of subordination is illustrated in Atticus Lish’s “Blade culture.” The lead female…

For centuries, there has been a huge controversy over what the public should be allowed to see when it comes to nudity in art. One of the most famous pieces of art that portrays nudity is Michelangelo’s statue of David. The statue of David was given to Queen Victoria as a gift from an Italian nobleman in 1857, without knowing that the statue showed a man’s genitals. Having been shocked, officials commissioned a sculptor to cover the man’s genitals with a fig leaf that could be taken on and off.…

when looking at the controversial topic of nudity. Media specifically has modified the social norm of nudity for years. Nudity in the United States has now become a rather important part of the American culture, and has only been emphasized through television, magazines, viral videos, and many other forms of widely accessible media. My hypothesis is that media is one of the leading factors as to why nudity has become social norm in The United States. Nudity is a very…

civilization”. One key aspect of this civilization is the artwork which has enticed viewers for centuries. When viewing classic Greek art, you will oftentimes stumble upon marble, nude sculptures. This then makes you wonder, “What is with all this nudity?” Well, that is the question that I will answer for you. So, why did ancient Greek artwork focus heavily on the human body? Nowadays, when art falls under the category of “nude”, it is oftentimes frowned upon and censored, rather than accepted…

Today humankind have all the essentials to keep sanitary, and they can do that without a second thought. They have toilets that flush, toothbrushes and toothpaste to brush their teeth with, and even just toilet paper. But back in the Medieval Times, things weren’t as simple as it is today. So how did they do it, having none of the usual amenities? People from nobles to even serfs used the restroom. They had something called a privy, which was also known as an outhouse. All privies would…

The embodiment of social discord, Vittoria acts as a catalyst and source of conflict between competing discourses of morality, yet does not centre in her own tragedy. She states ‘I scorn to hold my life/ At yours or any man’s entreaty’; having had to use her sexuality for social mobility, she abhors the idea of her existence continuing to be dependent on men. She has suffered at the actions of men such as Bracciano who promised to ‘seat [her] above law and above scandal.’ The assumption he is…

Corner’s: Underground Homosexual Kingdom in the Eyes of Lesbians As the Taiwanese film critic Huang Jianye concludes, documentary in Taiwan has been developed into an ascendant genre after the success of the inaugural “International Documentary Biennial Exhibition” in 1998. With the shift from obsession with indigenization to excavation of individual life after the lifting of martial law in 1987, possibilities of focusing on minority groups and exploring urgent social issues have been…

stayed the same was the concept of nudity. Nudity was used in almost all Greek art to describe everything from…