Tuesday 4 November 2014

Body and soul

Interesting article about stage nudity and female body in the Washington Post. Very honest. 


(Photographs by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

I particularly like this line:
"In our culture, women’s sexuality doesn’t tend to be funny. Women’s bodies are almost never a punchline the way men’s can be. For better or worse, there is a cultural seriousness to female nudity. And when women act sexy, at best they are setups for punchlines: Meg Ryan’s extended fauxgasm in “When Harry Met Sally” wasn’t the joke; it was the tension-building prelude . “I’ll have what she’s having” was the joke."




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