Hello good afternoon friends!! How are all of you? I want to share with everyone this post about an interesting photographer and article, I modified it a bit so it's not just 'Cut and Paste', I wanted to express the report in my own words, leaving it clear that I didn't do that... but the important information is there, expressed in another way. Well, come on, see and enjoy the images, they're just illustrative and for accompaniment.
This is the book I will be referring to in this post. Womanhood...the bare reality, translated into Castilian.
This woman with the photographic camera is the author of the book. Let's start with the content... 100 women and their vulvas. The artist Laura Dodsworth gathers in 'Womanhood: Naked Reality' the photographs of a hundred vulvas and the history of the women who posed for her. The goal, the end, to achieve, to make, to reclaim a zone for the same women, said zone is very unknown to them themselves, and besides helping them to feel among other things more secure and powerful.
Days ago, on top of a table there was an edition of 'Womahood' and around it, seated about 12 people, this edition generated an intense debate. There were men and women of different ages, conditions, and nationalities. The objective of this experiment was to check their reaction when seeing photographs of vulvas in the first plane. Some of them reacted with healthy curiosity as they flipped through the book, others put on a face of astonishment and even a face of disgust, expressing things like 'how unpleasant!' or 'what's the point of this?', I find it shameful or pornographic.
The author herself, Laura Dodsworth, refers that none of the body parts inspire love and hate, and fear and lust in the same way as the vulva. This world of contrasts revolving around her - between what is seen and what it really is; between what is thought and what is said about her - tells us that she was one of its motivations to launch this project, in which she takes a hundred women but also takes photographs of their vulvas, vaginas, and experience of being a woman: Our main point of reference is internet porn. That's why women, especially young ones, compare themselves with a neat, soft, pink, and 'perfect' vulva. But we must remember one important thing for all and each of the women, we have them in all shapes, sizes, and colors; none are alike. This is one of the first taboos this book breaks: it shows us real women. In fact, for many, this has been their first time: As vulvas are hidden and so mysterious, even to ourselves, it's hard for us to see them, Laura says.
It's more, there were women who saw their vulva, vagina for the first time on my photographic camera viewer. The opinions were diverse, because for some it wasn't a big deal, others commented how pretty they had it and there were those who asked if it was normal. Although they may have seen themselves before in a mirror, looking at a photograph is much clearer. I know this by my own photo! Laura became one of the 100 women, whose ages ranged from 17 to 99 years old that formed the Casting. Because the author took her picture to truly live the experience. Laura has become one of those 100 women.
Laura refers us that she is looking for women of all ages, body types, ethnicities, sexualities, life experiences, and genders.
When talking openly and freely about vulvas, the book breaks the second taboo that exists around them, something that is not only proven by reading the book but also by watching '100 Vaginas', the Channel 4 program that shows the making of photos and testimonials from some of the protagonists: We can say that 'interviews are the heart of the project' 'I had access to the big topics: pleasure, pain, life, death…'. These hundred women speak openly, for example, about how sex is for them. There's one who says she never had an orgasm until she met her husband; I think it was because with him I was in love. And the one who confesses: At 16, I only thought about satisfying my boyfriend and didn't think about my sexual pleasure. Now, I like to explore different ways of having sex. Another laughs at taboos: As a fat woman, I'm only allowed to be funny, a mother or a sexual fetish, but my fatness also gives me freedom, and adds that being fat makes people not look at me on the street as something sexual. And there's one who defines herself as heterosexual but without much conviction because at 47 she is still a virgin: There's a stigma around being a virgin, like an albatross flying over your head; but having sex and someone making fun of me is my worst fear.
Some talk about masturbation - 'There's a lot of shame around it, but if you don't know what you like, how are you going to communicate with your partner?' - and how and when they like to masturbate: 'in the bathtub', 'in the morning', 'at the end of the day', 'sometimes twice a day'. I confess that I love the 77-year-old woman who says she loves masturbating! I want a menopause like hers, please!' One of them recognizes her fear of losing her period 'because I'm afraid of losing my sexual attractiveness. I know it doesn't sound very feminist but it's the truth'.
There are also terrible stories: 'I was 7 years old when a woman came to the house and they removed my clitoris and lips. Literally, they only left a hole so I could urinate and have periods. That took away my childhood'. Another story had to have her vagina removed due to cancer: 'I feel my mutilated vulva but both of us are willing for a new beginning' and a third one whose husband performed an abortion on her without her consent.
I beg you, please forgive me if they find repeated photos. Good friends, I hope you like this post, and well, if not, there's no drama, take care and I send a big hug to all.
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