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Bloody cunt, bad aura
August 26, 2005
I’ve been scheduling a bunch of photo shoots for the coming weeks (yes, this means that I’ll get around to updating my portfolio – actually I have enough material to do that now, but wait til next week when I have a little bit more). I’m starting to veer more towards doing erotic nudes and fine art stuff. This is not because I have any problem with showing the pussy, but because a lot of pornographers don’t take porn very seriously and don’t spend time making good-looking images, they just rely on the good looking girls to make the images. Now, I’m not naïve – I know that bad porn sells at a pretty brisk rate, which doesn’t motivate most pornographers to hone their craft, but I take pride in my porn (and my pussy), so I like to participate in images that are well done, but also inspirational. And by inspirational, I promise that I don’t mean that I want my images to inspire people towards greater depths of being human or whatever crap – I mean I want to inspire hard-ons, erect nipples, tingly skin, and wet pussies.
It’s interesting to mix it up with people who make erotic images, but shy away from certain things – showing pussy, for example, or claiming it as smut, for another. Although sometimes the images end up looking very much like other intentionally smutty images I’ve seen, there is a whole other language attached to erotica and fine art nudes. Some of the distinctions are linguistically interesting and some art just plain bullshit.
Well, I got a little sidetracked there, but originally I was planning to tell the story of a photo shoot negotiation gone bad. And here we go… so I was talking to this photographer, who is working on a series in which he wanted to show his subject as a goddess and let her natural aura shine through in the photograph. So far so good; we progressed to the discussion of schedules, when he made an off-hand comment that got my goat: he wanted to shoot next week, as long as I wasn’t going to be having my period. I thought for a minute I misunderstood the nature of the shoot, and that maybe this was a showing-of-the-pussy after all, so I wrote back and asked him why it mattered that I was having my period if it was a simple nude shoot. He explained that he was looking for a sexy aura from a relaxed and naturally posed model; though he didn’t answer my question directly, he definitely made it clear that “sexy aura” and menstruation can’t cohabitate in the same body at the same time. Interesting that a project that seemed focused on a positive representation of the female body will edit out the period, because it damages the aura or something. In my view, there’s nothing that could possibly be more feminine than menstruation – but I guess its menstruation that is at the crux of what makes women different from men in the reproductive sense. I suppose it’s easy enough to imagine a woman as a sexual goddess, but sexuality wrapped up with reproduction is too messy.
I am no goddess.
Posted by Dacia at August 26, 2005 06:36 PM
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It’s frustrating that there’s so much shame attached to menstruation. I know that having been raised in it I have to fight every step of the way to not feel that it’s “dirty.”
Then again women’s body parts, even non-menstrual, are used derogatorily in everyday english as well. It’s bad to be a “pussy” but positive to have “balls.” WTF?!
Posted by: Nadia at August 26, 2005 08:17 PM
A few of my reactions…
What a bizarre view. I can feel very sexy and powerful when I have my period. Often my sex drive takes a spike up. It is when I feel most “female”, I think.
Now I can understand not everyone wanting to photograph the evidence of mensutration (tampons strings, pads, the menstrual blood, etc…), but how bad would it be to photograph someone on days 1-7 of her cycle?
Posted by: Seska at August 27, 2005 07:47 AM
Jesus, what a prat. Y’know what, unless it’s gushing, for the most part, I hardly notice when a female partner is menstruating, other than the extra lubrication.
Posted by: Josh Jasper at August 27, 2005 05:14 PM
I am finding this guy’s reasoning strange as well. Did he think you would be visibly uncomfortable from cramps? Or that the tampon string would be unavoidable in the photo? Or that your natural relaxed goddess-like sensuality is totally corrupted monthly by a torrent of blood right out of The Shining elevator? Does he actually spend time in the company of women on a regular basis? You know, with all that talking and listening stuff?
There’s an idea for a photo shoot: a woman being carressed, cuddled, and made love to by her loving male or female partner. Or alone in her natural beauty. And she’s actually on her period during the shoot. You could call it something beautiful and full of goddess energy, like “On The Rag” “Ragtime Band” “Blood Cunt Onboard” or some similar sentiment.
Posted by: Todd at August 27, 2005 05:19 PM
It’s interesting that he feels this way…For several years now I have noticed that “period week” at the strip club I worked at always tended to be the most lucrative week for the girls. It’s funny how many men have this misconception…yet often when they feel we look our best, or present a “sexy aura”, they have no idea that we are menstruating - and if we told them, they’d be stunned.
Posted by: layla_x at August 29, 2005 08:23 AM
Yeah, what Layla said. I always make more money when I’m bleeding. I would email the guy back and tell him that bleeding without dying is a sacred property of goddesses and he shouldn’t miss it.
Posted by: ember at August 29, 2005 12:07 PM
…and don’t stray too close to the crops…we can’t have failure of the oats and corn…people are funny aren’t they? :) Choose your photographer well!
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