Your opinion on artistic nudity? Women BB's exp. wanted

[Waylaid]

Based on your experience as bodybuilders, ladies, what are your opinions on artistic nudity?

From my POV, nudity is abused, misused and always misunderstood. Why can't nude subjects be treated as the same manner as the Greek Goddesses of yore, like Artemis & Athena, where they project strength, courage & dignity while in the nude? I also see strong half nude women depicted in the arts like Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_leading_the_people).

What do you think?

[Donica]

I think the operating word is "artistic". All too often, people are exposed to nudity that's described as "artistic" but is truly is little more than porno given a certain amount of social acceptance. Truly, artistic nudity is just that--artistic. I think it can be sensual and stimulating, but if it's singularly depicted with the intent of arousal then you'd have to classify it as something else.

Personally, I love the human body, clothed or unclothed, as long as it's dignified and respected and not exploited or made an object. The human body is a beautiful accomplishment, one of the pinnacles of creation, and the hard-working bodybuilder's body--natural, mind you, not chemically-altered--I think is something that should be applauded and appreciated in all of its states of dress, or the lack thereof.

[ShannonC_77]

I think the operating word is "artistic". All too often, people are exposed to nudity that's described as "artistic" but is truly is little more than porno given a certain amount of social acceptance. Truly, artistic nudity is just that--artistic. I think it can be sensual and stimulating, but if it's singularly depicted with the intent of arousal then you'd have to classify it as something else.



I agree 100% Many times 'artistic' nudity gets miscontrued to mean something completely different. At least this has been my experience. If the photograph is taken to evoke any sort of sexual response, it's not artistic nudity anymore.

[TurbulentFluid]

Don't even get me started. Today's culture is amazingly contradictory in this department - on one side, you have people terrified of their own bodies showing, on the other side there's nudity being misused and shown EVERYWHERE, up to the point of total distaste.

I think nudity and sex are nowadays absolutely misused in commercial purposes to the point of absolute absurd. Not being Christian, I have no problem with either sex or nudity or anything, but today sex seems to be treated like something slightly more than a handshake, and nudity and sex are mostly used in the manner of
"If you drink THIS beer, girls will like you and you'll have sex"
"If you use THIS deodorant, girls will like you and you'll have sex"
"If you eat THIS chocolate bar, girls will like you and you'll have sex
"If you use THIS lawn mower to maintain your garden, girls will like you and you'll have sex"
etc.
I even saw a commercial for a business briefcase where all the female staff members go MAD after an employee with the briefcase?? I mean, how is promoting casual sex among employees a good thing for a real pro's career!?!? I think nudity to cause sexual response is much more desireable, than nudity to provoke purchase of Michelin tyres (the nude woman in a split on the road - "adhesive to every surface"!?!?!?!?)
Porn I find very innocent and OK compared to THAT, using human basic instincts such as sex, to sell your junk to the masses. It also conveys the message of sex being something that's got hardly anymore meaning than having a pint with buddies, and while I'm in no way a romanticist or anything, I do believe development of such attitute in today's AIDS ridden world is not necessarily a desireable thing.

When I was a kid, I used to draw female and male nude pictures, mostly showing off muscles and athleticism (basically, anatomy charts with face and skin), and I didn't consider it as sexual. Actually most of the time I'd set the bodies so the sex organs didn't show so I wouldn't have to go through drawing bits with no muscle on them! :) :)

[LiftingIsLife]

VERY very well written post. Extremely reflective, and i agree with its contents entirely!
best,
~lifer :)



Don't even get me started. Today's culture is amazingly contradictory in this department - on one side, you have people terrified of their own bodies showing, on the other side there's nudity being misused and shown EVERYWHERE, up to the point of total distaste.

I think nudity and sex are nowadays absolutely misused in commercial purposes to the point of absolute absurd. Not being Christian, I have no problem with either sex or nudity or anything, but today sex seems to be treated like something slightly more than a handshake, and nudity and sex are mostly used in the manner of
"If you drink THIS beer, girls will like you and you'll have sex"
"If you use THIS deodorant, girls will like you and you'll have sex"
"If you eat THIS chocolate bar, girls will like you and you'll have sex
"If you use THIS lawn mower to maintain your garden, girls will like you and you'll have sex"
etc.
I even saw a commercial for a business briefcase where all the female staff members go MAD after an employee with the briefcase?? I mean, how is promoting casual sex among employees a good thing for a real pro's career!?!? I think nudity to cause sexual response is much more desireable, than nudity to provoke purchase of Michelin tyres (the nude woman in a split on the road - "adhesive to every surface"!?!?!?!?)
Porn I find very innocent and OK compared to THAT, using human basic instincts such as sex, to sell your junk to the masses. It also conveys the message of sex being something that's got hardly anymore meaning than having a pint with buddies, and while I'm in no way a romanticist or anything, I do believe development of such attitute in today's AIDS ridden world is not necessarily a desireable thing.

When I was a kid, I used to draw female and male nude pictures, mostly showing off muscles and athleticism (basically, anatomy charts with face and skin), and I didn't consider it as sexual. Actually most of the time I'd set the bodies so the sex organs didn't show so I wouldn't have to go through drawing bits with no muscle on them! :) :)

[darkangel]

When Reader's Digest started having cover blurbs about sex articles, I knew we'd really gone down the tubes.