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I occasionally enjoy and indulge in a bit of nakedness myself. I have been known to use the body (hear me out) in art projects to convey a fragility; a vulnerability of the human condition which is ordinarily masked in material. The protection of clothing serves to conceal the insecurities and reservations… oh enough of the crap, I'll admit it: I simply like naked people. Who doesn't?
From the very beginning, the issue of nudity has been one that attracts attention and courts controversy. Obviously the fig-leaves were right on the money in the style-stakes but correct me if I'm wrong: God made it clear that pre-applegate he was all for nudity.
Running with the notion that nudity is legitimate as a lustful force, advertisers, artists, corporations and campaigners have utilised the multitude of Homo sapiens willing to reveal themselves in the name of some cause or product.
Covering themselves in blood, an animal rights protest group in Barcelona stripped off earlier this week to controversially raise the profile of their worthy cause. In order to get the attention they so desire, gratuitous nudity was clearly necessary.
There's no disputing it: sex sells. Whether your cause is serious or frivolous, the sight of writhing bodies is enough to get the conservative's goat and cause the lustful to look twice.
I could get all deep and serious on this matter and ramble on about our ability as humans to articulate our point in ways that don't exploit or merely utilise our primitive lustful desires. I could discuss the use of nudes in art through the centuries; the progression of the portrayal of women from submissive receivers of sex to active participants to forthright aggressors. But fun frivolous nudity doesn't need such an analytical response. The Dove Campaign, the naked calendars and the adverts that tell you 'YOU WILL GET MORE SEX IF YOU USE THIS PRODUCT'; they all manipulate us in ways that we are all, more or less, aware of.
We know that we should be horrified and that we should question the exploitative nature of naked displays to attract attention that should be gained in other, more cleverly orchestrated, ways. However, we're too busy clicking away on pictures of naked ladies, revelling in the sheer absent-mindedness of it all. Let's face it, why else did you read this article?
Applegate. Brilliant.
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