This is another installation of the wonderful collectors cut series. I like it when websites revisit their old sets, and a goddess like Anya certainly deserves renewed respect and her beauty deserves attention.
It's a simple outdoors gallery in a beautiful meadow on a beautiful Summer day. I think that Jan Svend has made a difference since he started shooting for MPLStudios. Most of the beautiful sets that they have were produced by him.
I hope that you'll like this gallery.
What is paradise? I think that paradise is a place where social equality is possible through hard work. A place where an ambitious person can be as successful as he or she wishes to be if she or he works hard. It's a place where social status or connections make any difference for hard-working people. In other words, it's a place where hard work is rewarded, and where equal opportunities exist for all.
This definition contrasts with the religious paradise with all of its idleness and the selfishness that it creates in fundamentalism, bringing out the corruption in people - doing something good just to please 'the boss' is a form of corruption as evidenced by the 'I am holier than thou' syndrome.
Paradise isn't a place full of beautiful women, Hawaiian aloha songs, or tropical beaches. It's a place where everybody's free and where no one interferes with the business of others as long as he or she isn't harmed. A place where people are ambitious and proactive, where they strive to bring out the best in themselves, not to enjoy the depravity and cruelty that signifies a lack of respect for life and for others.
We are not 'sinful', telling others that they naturally bad gives them the license to harm and destroy, and also gives you the license to be destructive and corrupt. People are great, those who become corrupt made their choices, and it's none of our business as long as we're not harmed. When I attack the general direction of nudes, I do so based on the fact that what major websites do does reflect back on all of us and gives a chance for beauty-haters to turn their vile hatred for life towards us and our beautiful models.
Nudes give those models a chance to express themselves. Every one has a unique story and a unique life, and most of us had a hard time when we were young or are still suffering from inequality, hardship or absurd laws. It's the chance for those models to be the heroines that they truly are. It's like those intimate conversations that you may have with someone who gets into details about their struggle with life. Except that they do it visually, and they get constant feedback. It's an invisible form of conversation, in which they strive to bring out the best in them. This earns them a lot of respect, and that's what they deserve, along with all the self-respect and confidence that this entails.
As Dwayne Bell has recently said, paradise can exist here on Earth, if we all work together and become disillusioned with the corruption that surrounds and often engulfs us, the corruption that we may succumb to in the name of being bad. I truly wish that one day, we can listen to others and appreciate their recounting of their own tales and problems, and be inspired by them, instead of the incessant gloating that seems to be rampant.
Paradise may not be here, but it's close. We just need to get rid of a few shackles to get there. Heracles was human after all.
Anya is one of the few models who have complete control over their beauty. She always looks very graceful in all of her images, whether she's completely nudes, partially clothed, or completely clothed - the MPLStudios postcard series. I have seen her images many times at many different websites, but she always managed to keep her charm and her grace in every set. Whether it's at Domai or any of the many websites with Russian models, she always was the same beautiful woman that she truly is.
Photographers certainly have a role, but it's the model who inspires and helps in the creation of great art. Anya is one of the very special models who have been able to always help the photographers she's posed for create wonderful images.
She represents the vision of a young woman who appears to be in control of her life, destiny, and even how others see her.
I certainly hope that she will allow us to be inspired by her beauty for many years to come.
A personal vision of paradise is that of a tropical sunny beach that's full of tranquility. A getaway from concrete jungles with all of their pollution and crowds.
I think that what makes those getaways attractive is the harmony of colors, the fact that they offer a chance to relax and enjoy life in a semi-hedonistic way.
We can create our own paradise in the middle of our modern jungles. We can recreate the harmony of color, and if we're hard-working and good enough we may even have a person next to us, as beautiful as Sasha, helping us making it complete. All it takes is hard work and a bit of ingenuity.
Paradise doesn't have to be that far away, not when you believe and do something about all that you find ugly. By making the world a better place for yourself, you're helping in making it a better place for everyone else.
Meanwhile, Sasha is and will continue to provide the inspiration, the vision of a pristine paradise where honesty, in the form of nudity, prevails.
There's nothing shameful about female genitalia. What's shameful is reducing a female's importance to her genitalia, which is what commonly happens on most nudes websites with the exception of BodyInMind and Domai.
When I look at nude pictures, I basically look for independent women who have the courage to be free. Women who aren't afraid to reveal who they are, which is represented by their nudity, to the world. Without paying any attention to any "flaws" that the world may point out. Those women have reached a stage of accepting who they are where they don't need to care about the negative thoughts of those around them. Certain social attitudes are the perfect glass-ceiling. Submitting to the whims of others is a form of modern social slavery after all. This is what modesty is about after all. By employing the force of social pressure modesty makes everyone look the same and masks the differences that make us unique. It's true that those who lead the most uneventful of lives are those who are least likely to attract any attention. However, what's life for if you don't strive to become who you want to be, to strengthen your self-respect while maintaining your integrity in the process?
I once attacked material possessions, the problem really isn't in those possessions, or even the "be unique by having this product" sort of advertisements. The issue lies in the inability of some individuals to find and fight for their individuality. The products then serve as a temporary hypnotics. I think that this is the reason why some people have such a rush after shopping for things that they neither need nor have a use for.
Those models have found their individuality, have embraced their bodies and their selves, and have decided to proudly stride forward towards a future that they will shape through their own decisions and mistakes. They have found their true beauty, and they're not willing to sacrifice it for the best modesty adjectives in the world.
There are many women out there who do the same without posing nude at beautiful locations, but the society has all sorts of labels to attack them, they may be called "geeks, tomboys, sluts, or anything else, the list is endless". Even on TV, the social successful people are those whose self-respect is derived from the adulation of others, which is another form of slavery. It's a nasty game of self-destruction.
That's why I like the thumbnail picture to the left that much. That pose is full of confidence and self-assurance, and Tiffany looks just like the rest of us, but she's different, can you guess why?
I am full of respect for her, and for all the models and women who have ever fought to discover their beauty, we should all be.
Ava has a very cute smile. She has started modeling a while ago and her images have appeared at a lot of websites including Met-Art - as Indiana A. I have to admit that her smile looks funny at times. Sometimes she looks very innocent, but at other times she shows that innocence can go well with feminine beauty.
This is one of her many galleries from MPL-Studios. I hope that you're going to like it.
What's so beautiful about Anya? She looks terribly fragile, some of her sets at MPL studios and other websites with Russian nudes are average, and she is somewhat very thin.
What makes her beautiful is that she represents an ideal. An ideal of a new Russia where the people are allowed to dream, be beautiful, and pursue their happiness. Her eyes are full of intelligence, her body posture implies the grace of self-confidence, and her sure smile carries a sense of the joy of life that is amazing. To me, she represents confident progress.
She is thin, just like Russia after the revolution, but she has that wonderful attitude that represents the triumph of individuality over mindless collectivism. She took the chance to stand up, show her beauty, and be prominent. However, her poses never allow you to undermine her intelligence based on how beautiful she looks. She is what many would call a dangerous woman. I think that she represents a new world, a world of human beauty.
That's why I think that Anya is beautiful.
A serpent sculpted by the hand of man
A seductress to entice
Hollow, to be filled
With their own vice
With a forked tongue speaks
A man in a dark gown
Conceal purity in this abyss
Our glory may find its death
What's hidden can be spoilt
Controlled, and filled with guilt
Contaminated by our whims
Manipulated and killed
The light always blinds the creatures of the night
In their darkness, we will rise.
A human born in darkness is blind
A miserable fiend
Afraid from the serpent's venom
When venom is all it drinks
Animal instict awakens
In its sanguine rivers
In murk it all arises
Yet another tragedy
Lust lingers in its bosom
It was raised to defile and murder
To violate all that's pure
To drown the world in blood.
"Everything that shines is a serpent"
Remember my son
Don't trust your heart
Don't look under the skin
Don't listen to their cries
Just look for them in the dark.
A new child is born
dressed as a snake
Another wing is ripped
Now is not the time for innocence
When innocence is mistaken for evil
and life is weaved into a nightmare
When the blood-stained hands are revered
And honest tongues aren't allowed to speak
How can it be otherwise?
A frenzy, a witchhunt
blame it all on the serpent
and our glory will never be gone
no antidote for the venom
Another head, another ornament
Held by the man with the forked tongue
Today's dose of the poison
Now my son, now you have a blindfolded soul.
A lot of websites out there seem to be promoting a new philosophy that it's okay to look at females and even to imagine how they look naked. Well, I have made my position clear before, but I think that I can elucidate a few points on that subject before moving on.
I think that it depends on your attitude and how you look. Looking at females randomly and imagining them naked is somewhat like looking at expensive cars and imagining how it will be like to be behind the wheel, it sounds like an innocent fantasy, but it promotes the possessive instinct that a lot of people have, and women are not cars or objects to be controlled, collected, or enjoyed.
Some say that it's okay to imagine them naked, but what's so special about hollow nudity? What's the use of a map if you're not able to see the big picture and to let it guide your way? We have been saying that nudity is about beauty and not about sexuality, that's it's about respecting women, for quite a long time. We will be contradicting ourselves if we suddenly start advocating the sexualization of human females.
What do you feel when someone stares at you? What if it's at a public location? Do you feel comfortable? What if they're not looking you in the eye but are staring at your pants/chest? I think that you will feel very comfortable.
No one has said where the line is to be drawn, if we start supporting optic harassment then we can easily start accepting the verbal harassment of females as a mere display of appreciation. There's a difference between going up to a female, introducing yourself, saying that you think that she looks beautiful and that you're interested in knowing the characteristics of her personality that augmented her beauty, and addressing her in a demeaning manner or just making a comment about how her body looks.
I think that there's nothing wrong with telling a woman that she looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be considered an intrusion on that woman's privacy, so whatever you choose to do, always remember that those females are to be respected, not patronized. Reducing a woman's worth to how beautiful her body is is the pure essence of sexism.
It's a disgrace that we still can't get rid of the prejudice and the false impressions surrounding female nudity. We still are judgemental about others and it seems that the main objection to giving this freedom to women is just that, most societies don't want to give women more freedom.
Even most of the websites that barely make it on Graceful Nudes have a similar attitude about female nudity, it all comes down to revenues and the commodification of models. Even when one doesn't discuss the pay models receive, there's still a big ethical gap in the way the models are treated. I don't think that a model just gets into a hypersexualized state once she's in front of the camera. It's just a way of advertisement, telling the male-dominated audience of websites that are marketing nudity that these females are sexually available by using subconscious or conscious sexual cues, thereby confining the model to the role that she plays in the traditional "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" fantasy, satisfying the basic sexual urges of the visitors, and having a higher account balance at the bank.
And It's not getting better.
I was contacted about a month ago by a visitor who was asking for my opinion regarding joining Abby Winters, after prolonged discussions I told him to go for it, especially when they were going to split the website. Now that the website has been split, I completely regret telling him to give them a single penny. The initial new design after the split was of a model in the lordosis position, and now their newsletter videos are full of the weird sexuality that's found at every other porn website. Long gone are the days of free uninhibited sexuality of models who are in control, not models who are being controlled.
It isn't just confined to Abby Winters. Most of other websites now have a tendency towards featuring the cheap, grotesque, and quick-money kind of sets that the visitors who are looking for porn keep asking for. I don't really know what's happening, but this attitude certainly is going to ruin everything beautiful that they supposedly are fighting for.
However, no matter where every other website is heading. I will always keep fighting for female beauty and the empowerment of females everywhere, we all should if we want our western culture to truly progress and flourish in a free world.
Nudity is a symbol of freedom and not a fantasy of some perverted males. This freedom means even more freedom for minds everywhere and more development. I think it will solve a lot of problems in a lot of places that our governments are condoning through avoiding them.
Who knows, maybe it's just a storm that will calm after a while. Meanwhile, let's all keep enjoying tasteful nudes that are both inspiring and respectful.
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