How did our society degenerate to the point where such filth as the photo above is allowed? What happened? Surely, it must have all started in the 1960’s when those commie liberals took over all the institutions, i.e., Gramsci’s “Long march through the institutions”. Before this time such filth as above, the filth of a naked women, displaying her sensual, sexual self for the whole world, would never have been allowed to exist. No, before the 1960’s the world was a good place, pure, free, happy, a haven for the perfect little families of the Neo-Traditionalism fantasy, with perfect mothers, fathers, children, all perfect and happy and no one ever committing any sexual act save for procreation. No sperm was ever wasted, not a single one.
So what went wrong? Perhaps a brief history of the nude might help. I offer here a bit of comparison and contrast.
The end of the world began with the Italian Renaissance, roughly from 1300 to about 1600. This was the beginning of “Secular Humanism”. This was when people began to think a bit for themselves, often inspired by the rediscovery of Classical Greek and Roman culture. The Catholic Church was no longer able to simply tell people what to think, and expect them to obey, as it still does in such groups as Opus Dei, the Legionaries of Christ, and generally among the Neo-Traditionalist crowd. Painters and sculptors began pushing the boundaries of art, and scientist did in science, both of which lead to many great creations, to the consternation of the proto-neo-traditionalist types. This was when smut first appeared. Even Michelangelo’s works where considered porn by some lusty cardinals back then, undoubtedly tempted by his depictions of firm male flesh to bugger their altar boys even more vigorously than they were already doing. Then, to complicate things even more, the Protestants went completely ape shit over nude art, making the Catholic conservatives look like pagan hedonists in comparison.
So here are some good examples of such early smut.
Giorgione: Sleeping Venus, 1510.
The beginnings of porn. A naked woman. Pure and simple. Satan is clearly rejoicing. Nuff’ said. Notice how she is covering her vagina area. All that does is make you wonder even more about what is going on down there.
Titian: Venus of Urbino, 1538
Next, we have another proponent of porn, Titian. Titian painted many voluptuous women, often in pagan scenes. It was pure blasphemy and heresy. People loved his paintings though. Here is another good nude. Notice the similarities with that earlier pornographer, Giorgione. She too is holding her hand on her forbidden zone. It looks like she is even playing with herself a bit. No, that cannot be true, since women did not masturbate, ever, until recently. Where was the Moral Majority when we needed them.
Compare Titian’s woman with this lovely creature.
Here we simply have beautiful woman, as in Titian painting. She could be a Venus too, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality and fertility. She is not quite in the same pose, but close enough. Like Titian’s model, she is boldly looking at us. What is important here is the evocations of feminine beauty, sexuality and sensuality, in an artistic framework. Many contemporary erotic photos of women, although called “porn” by many, are artistically quite well done. They are simply beautiful. More follow below.
Francisco Goya 1746-1842 La maja desnuda (The Naked Maja), 1800
Then, a few centuries of decadence later, and after more than one religious war over who was more pure, Catholics or Protestants, with the Spanish painter Goya, we have turned a dangerous corner. Here we actually see a woman nude, clearly sexual, and even depicting a bit of a bush. A BUSH!!! This in Spain around 1800. Well, needless to say, Goya was hauled up in front of the Inquisition and asked a few questions about this smut. No one knows what transpired, except that the painting fortunately is still around. In the 1930’s Spain turned this into a postage stamp, which the U.S refused to accept in the mail because of this image. Remember, this was not too long ago. I am sure Sarah Palin would refuse such a stamp today. Alaska is still God’ country.
Let us compare her with this piece of modern filth:
Like Goya’s woman, she is inviting, spread out on the bed, lovely and sensual and evocative. It is pure filth! Let me look at some more of it…oh yeah….
Edouard Manet: Olympia, 1863
This is artistic smut, early porn, taken to a new level. This guy was French, so what do you expect. Yeah, remember those cowardly French, whom the Neo-Conservatives (who were the Proto-Neo-Traditionalists a few years ago), hated, because they wisely warned us to keep away from Iraq? How much has our bankrupted nation spent there? And for what? But I digress…anyway, this painting depicts a prostitute, most likely. And look at how she is looking at the viewer. Notice her full and soft breasts. Once more, notice how her hand covers her naughty girl bits. Image. When I see her hand there, well, I want to explore. This gives me lustful thoughts. I wish someone would burn it. Maybe the Opus Dei crowd can track it down and burn it, if they don’t burn me first. And why is she staring at me like that??? She needs to be demure and covered with an Alte designed burka. Women should not entice their brethren into lusty thoughts. NO! Please, be holy and pure virgins, with dry vaginas.
Now, compare this piece of modern smut with Manet’s image.
She is also presenting us with an interesting expression. And her curvaceous figure against the white background is a lovely’s as Manet’s.
Left unchecked, these early pornographers lead what is the scourge of porn in our society today. It is a ubiquitous scourge. Porn is now everywhere. The purity of the young is threatened. Girls may even look at porn and get the gina tingle, a no-no among the neo-puritan, neo-traditionalist crowd. If you belong to Opus Dei, and you see one of these images, you will have to scourge your weak, lustful flesh at least a thousand more times tonight, and splatter you’re the walls of your holy cell with your sinful blood, just as their holy founder did, Jose Maria Escriva. Remember, according to infallible Catholic doctrine, if you masturbate you WILL go to hell, and hell is filled with masturbators right now, wishing they had only stopped spanking the monkey, just as one priest once told me in a confessional, as a very young man, trying to be a good Catholic, when I admitted to this horrible sin. Terrified by this image, this threat of eternal damnation, and this fear of my own sexual desires, I only started masturbating more compulsively after that, like some neurotic trapped between fear and lust. Finally a little after that I met a few women and got laid and that ended that nightmare. I learned love pussy and hate sin.
What are we to do? The world is filled with erotic imagery! If only the neo-puritans, neo-traditionalists can take over, if only the holy axis of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry will win political power, we can finally be free once and for all of this smut, of all our sexual desires, and return to the milk and cookies world of 1950’s America, were women were pure, holy, devoted mothers, virgins when married, the most idealized vision of a womanhood sin the Fall of Man, where a man fucked his wife with a one-stroke-done method once a year and that was that and Satan had not yet put a clitoris on a woman to entice men! It was the holiest of time, the most holy time since that slut Eve ate that apple, and brought us all to the point where we have to see such smut at this on TV, in the movies, in the art galleries, and, worst of all, on our private, personal computers where there is such a smorgasbord of free erotica that everyone partakes in it in some form or another but no one admits it…
Simon Rierdon said:
RacerX, I like it when your sarcastic side comes out, I was laughing all the way through this post. More please…and I will admit to indulging in all the ubiquitous erotica out there.
Rebekah said:
Were the women just heftier back then (you don’t see even the slightest bone protruding) or did the authors paint them that way to neutralize some of their sexuality? The intent of paintings don’t look like they were meant to inspire lust to me.
Racer X said:
Simon,
Thanks. I enjoy letting out the sarcastic side every now and then as well. There is too much in the world to laugh at not to let it out!
Rebekah,
I think the women depicted in those paintings are actually closer in reality to what most women look like than most modern photographs depict. The emphasis on excessive thinness in the female figure in modern culture has warped our image of women. It is a strange irony that this is so, because painting might be considered a more idealized form of art than photography, yet the paintings here are in many ways more natural than many computer enhanced photographs today. Now don’t get me wrong, I like women who are proportional and in shape, but these paintings display a certain kind of soft sensuality that is inherent in the female form and often lacking in modern depictions of women, where softness has often been replaced by a kind of tough hardness, which is not really all that attractive or alluring.
And as far as the lust factor, for the time in which they were painted, yes, I think they would have aroused a certain degree of desire among men. Most any image of an attractive naked women will. That is part of the nature of erotic art, which is why erotic art is so uncomfortable for so many. The Goya painting in particular was controversial because of its obvious sexual overtones.
Rebekah said:
I agree that runway models and fashion mags usually use very thin women. But the women in the paintings look at least 5 – 10 lbs heavier than the women in the modern photographs you’ve chosen. Even the “modern” photos look a bit retro – with the women looking a bit curvier than most models today. Could you imagine the girls in the paintings on TV or in magazines today? I think they would be labeled as fat for sure.
I kind of like the last photo – I like her tan lines and that her face looks like Tony Soprano’s therapist. 🙂
Racer X said:
Rebekah,
Haha…your are right about the last photo. She does look like Tony Soprano’s therapist! And I like tan lines too.
Yes, I chose older photos for these posts, because I feel older images of women are more natural to the female form (by older I mean pre-1990’s for the most part). Many of today’s images are just too hard looking. Women are meant to have at least a bit body fat and be soft looking. Plus I always enjoy the all natural look in a girl, you know, “down there”. Older photos have that too.