Random feel good thing that I think would be good for everyone’s egos: reblog with your favorite OC of the person you reblogged from in the tags. Reasons are optional. Any fandom.
Growing up my mom frequently walked around topless while getting ready for work so boobs especially are not really sexual to me unless put in an explicitly sexual context. ((Genitals were another matter but I’m sure I could have grown up with those normalized as well.))
Now this next part may be controversial, IDK.
But if you’re going to desexualize it, or make a point about desexualizing nudity, it would help if you didn’t choose photos featuring poses used by sex workers (esp porn stars and strippers) to sell their services? Not that it’s exclusive to us ofc. But that pose of bowing your back at an unnatural angle to show the roundedness of your ass and tits to greatest effect is a very “come hither” pose. It’s not your nudity that sexualizes the image, but the pose. If you made that pose fully-clothed it would still be interpreted as sexual. Hell, it’s used to sell “trashy” lingerie all the time as well.
If you want to normalize and desexualize nudity then show nudity in everyday settings.
Naked while slouched on the sofa gaming, complete with belly rolls.
Nude but for a t-shirt while cooking because no one wants hot oil to burn their tits but you can’t be bothered to get fully dressed.
Nude while blowdrying your hair.
Nude while sleeping with the covers all bunched up and ugly.
Nude while knitting and watching TV.
Nude while clipping your nails.
Desexualizing nudity starts with showing “ugly” nudity.
Desexualizing nudity begins with the everyday. Not with on-location photoshoots featuring common “come hither” poses.
And OFC there are people with a voyeur fetish that will still find a way to sexualize that everyday nudity. But ffs there are youtube channels dedicated to people covertly filming women’s feet in flipflops because it gets them off. There will always be someone to sexualize a nonsexual thing.
But if you want to start a social change wrt to desexualizing nudity, it won’t be by photographing a pose that has been the standard on 75% of the back covers of porn DVDs.
I’m also very much pro destigmatizing sex and porn and sex work, while still acknowledging various problems within communities and industries as they currently exist. But those are separate but related conversations from “desexualize nudity”.
When I’m super turned-on I can say the filthiest fucking things without even thinking about it but otherwise irl I am so fucking shy I can’t even tell my husband I want to fuck
no seriously
like when he was just my boyfriend and he was visiting me from long-distance, I was like “damn he’s hot” but rather than say that I decided the best way to convey that I was dtf was to come up behind him and reach around and grab his dick
and like any sensible person he was like “why are you grabbing my dick”
and at that point I suddenly remember that I am a shy useless sack of shit and then I am torn because on the one hand I still want to fuck but on the other hand I kind of want to pretend I never thought this was a good idea
so my compromise is to just say “I’m not”
WITH MY HAND STILL ON HIS DICK
so again like any sensible person he’s like “okay well then who is grabbing my dick”
AND I PANICKED
AND SAID
“IT’S A GHOOOooooOOOOoooOOOST”
AND JIGGLED MY HAND LIKE I WAS WEARING A SHEET AND FLOATING THROUGH THE AIR
AND HE LEFT THE ROOM AND EIGHT YEARS LATER MARRIED ME FOR SOME FUCKING REASON
#HE STILL HAS NOT LET ME LIVE THIS DOWN #IF I GRAB HIS DICK HE SCREAMS THAT THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED
Beginning last summer Twitter user @fuguhitman began illustrating his personal backlog of bird-bread puns. His first starchy birb was the Sparroll and he claims to have at least 20 to work through. With 9 completed thus far, we have one question for him: why did you wait so long to share these works of punny goodness with the world?
Follow @fuguhitman on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss out on the rest of the breadbird flock and little bonus birbs such as this chocolate chick cookie:
A Picasso bug, Sphaerocoris annulus, from Mlawula Nature Reserve, Swaziland.
Also known as Shield-backed bug, Sphaerocoris annulus (Heteroptera – Scutelleridae) is an African shield bug reported from Kenya, Cameroon, and Namibia.
This bug, beautifully decorated, is well known to science for its role as the cotton pest in Africa and the study of their pheromones.
all aliens are good, but only if theyre not carbon copies of humans lol
here’s an idea: draw a sapient penguin alien race; as in they’re clearly avian but evolved to swim from flying. u could look at penguins (obvs), seals, water fowl and fish for inspiration. maybe even reptiles if u wanna add scales. be sure to make ur alien race vary too, from emperor penguin to rock hopper penguin
And do NOT give the females boobs or hips, that is not how birds work.
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