Improving Aphrodite

[daphnep]

At work, I was flipping through catalogs of fine-art reproductions, admiring the good ones, and groaning over the poor ones, when I noticed a trend that stopped me and sent me furiously turning pages back, saying "oh my god! Look what they're doing

Comments

[daphnep]

Have at it! Feel free to use the photos.

[daphnep]

Weird...do you notice how many of your commenters come at it from a purely sexual point of view? Like "I couldn't have sex with the women in the reproductions." As if they could with the women in the originals. As if that's the way they relate to artwork: is it sexually appealing? Could I have sex with it?

It's a beauty=sex thinking. Like beauty can't exist apart from sexual desire, with a little bit of male domination ("can I fuck it? can I? can I?") layered over.

[springheel_jack]

aaaaaauurrgh

[jenbooks]

That is utterly horrible.

[fasterpussycat]

oh for fuck's sake

[kateherself]

Wow. That is shocking.