Is there any damage caused by anyone saying that beauty is more determined by a woman's actions - what is commonly referred to as inner beauty - than by her external appearance? I know that many would claim that beauty is a combination of both, and I do agree to an extent, but I think that a woman's personality and determinism matter more than the shape of her legs or the state of her breasts. How can I be saying something so outrageous when all that I feature can be mistaken for a collection of external beauty?
I think that external beauty is limited to what a woman can do with a simple comb and scissors. Beauty can not be bought in $100 packages or a collagen treatment. That sort of image of beauty, backed up by communist-like propaganda-type of commercials and magazines, is merely a distraction. Why should a woman who is brave, unique, and intelligent spend 2-3 hours a day caring about how she looks like? Isn't this a waste of her time and her personal qualities?
Most women are beautiful by nature, we must help them free themselves of that beauty obsession and to let them do the things that are truly beautiful. They are not sculptures, and we should never marginalize their role to being "cute little things" who should stand aside and just inspire men to work hard - be real-life pin-ups. Women are capable of working and of exploiting their own potential, of building their own future, they can be beautiful and still manage to do all of those things, but I doubt that it will all be possible if they assume the role of "male motivators". Catalysts don't take part in a reaction after all, they just lowe the activation energy.
One may be motivated to work hard as to be able to offer his beloved partner a better life, but this is not the sole role of the partner, who may work just as hard to improve the common life that they share.
By analyzing the external factors that make a woman beautiful then we end up with an image that falls apart pretty quickly. Women don't come from a barbie factory machine, they are not cast into a perfect shape. We can claim that shapely long legs look good on all women, but there are women who look better in differently shaped legs. We can claim that D-cup breasts should be the golden standard, but some women look amazingly better in B-cup breasts. There is just no standard, and I don't think that real life beauty follows all those fashion-industry beauty standards anyway.
If I claim that all good successful men have to look good, what response do I expect to get? There are just too many examples out there that will prove that my claim is false. There is no actual separation between how a person looks on the outside and his/her inner personality. We have all come across people who posess a good deal of physical beauty, but who are repulsive. Physical beauty can inspire vanity and a sense of entitlement. Claiming that "spiritual" beauty can't exist without external beauty is somewhat absurd, as there is no real separation. Beauty is a whole quality, it is something that one can sense and see. Most of us have fallen in love more than once, and I tend to assume that every person's Isolde doesn't look like Nikkala. When one is in love, one sees beauty as the whole quality that it really is.
It is true that beauty can make a fleeting appearance in a free giggle, a quick smile, or a graceful movement of happiness. That appearance is seen as beauty by the "beholder", but it is not that leap into the air that makes a woman beautiful, it's what motivated her to leap into the air, her own sense of her own beauty. Most of us can safely say that Nikkala is beautiful, but it's not the shape of her body - that merely is what made her qualify as a model, it is what I assume to be inner values when I see her letting a carefree smile adorn her face. The smile is a secondary thing, not the primary "cause" of her beauty.
What is the use of bravery if one doesn't get to use it? "Beautiful" girls don't fight after all, they may break a nail.
There are no ghosts and corpses in beauty. The "soul" and the body should not be separated, one is whole, and so is one's beauty.
The "ugly angel" is not ugly, angels are not and can't be ugly. Women are not products, they don't have different ratings for physical beauty and inner beauty in which the lack of one makes the other useless.
If we claim that only physically beautiful women who possess qualities of true beauty are beautiful, then what we are creating is the ultimate imposter ideal. It's like we suddenly have a template, and it is like saying that all real-life women who can not qualify as models are either "mindless babes" or "ugly angels", i.e. are not beautiful. I think that such a claim can be easily contradicted through a short walk through a park, or a visit to the nearest secular charity organization, or even a simple look into the face of the person sleeping next to you in the morning.
Most females inherently know that they are beautiful, we should never attempt to undermine this sense of self-worth and the pursuit of happiness and personal qualities in the favor of an industry or an ultimate aphrodite. Artemis was just as beautiful, right?
These days a lot of people demonstrate for various things. For more jobs, for higher wages, for less torture, and even to stop the Neo-Nazis from ruining traditional festivals. However, no one seems to care that much about beauty, about the mental prison that free citizens like you and me have to live in, just because they were born female.
Violence is something that we all abhor. No one likes to be the victim or the perpetrator of violence, but what if you train people to actually like violence. Tell them that being cut up with a knife is okay? More women than ever are admitted to operating theaters for surgeries that will not enhance the qualities of their lives and for which there is no medical indication whatsoever - operations that disfigure rather than restore. One of the basics of surgery is to never operate on someone who doesn't need an operation. What about an absolutely healthy female going under the scalpel just to have bigger breasts, to have two synthetic bags put into her? Why are those women doing that? Is it a quest for social acceptance? Or is it just going along with the pressure to conform, to tell the entire world that she can be controlled, manipulated into enjoying the results of a blade cutting her beautiful skin?
What's beautiful about breasts anyway? Why do we have to cut women down into pieces and analyze every single detail of their bodies? Who gave us the right to compare them to an "ideal" image, an image so weird that even goddesses - the subjects of paintings - would be considered too fat? Breasts on their own are not attractive, a pathologist examining a breast after a mastectomy will not find them attractive. What makes them attractive is not their size, their shape, or even their texture, it's the women who carry them. The ideas of those women, their livelihood, their life view is what makes them beautiful. Not a glossy lipstick, a perfume that makes you gasp for air, or bags inserted into their breasts. It also isn't some sort of a cellophane wrap that comes from Paris - an expensive dress, designer jeans, etc...
Beautiful women don't need feedback, don't need a surgeon-issued seal of quality - a seal of inferiority. Beauty isn't genetic, and certainly isn't synthetic. Dwayne Bell, the founder of Body In Mind, would disagree with me on this one. His view is that superficially "beautiful" women are just as good as women who radiate with true beauty. His reasoning is that those women inspire men to work hard to "earn" them, or to impress them. Isn't this what BMW's are for? Are women like consumer goods?
Well, luxurious consumer goods were despised by the authorities in soviet nations - publicly at least, their lavish private properties were often filled with expensive verbotene Ware. I think that it is true that consumer goods motivate people in capitalist economies to work and then to spend their money. All high school students are well aware of that, some of them work for long hours to buy the latest cool gadgets. The trend continues into adult life, except that the those gadgets are replaced by expensive houses and large cars as one's income increases. I am not claiming that this is bad, but if we start to say that women are like consumer goods, acting as mere motivators, then we are objectifying them, commodifying them. If they're goods then there's a price tag somewhere: blond hair, big breasts, tall legs, a flat midriff, and thighs that don't touch increase the social value and acceptance. There is even an expiry date, which is one of the many causes of that mid-life crisis. Rich men know that they need to have the latest model, a trophy wife, in order to look good.
So, what those women are doing by undergoing those surgeries is increasing their market value. I am finding it very repulsive as I am writing this.
It doesn't even stop there. Various illusions are marketed everywhere: beautiful women love violent and rough men. That simple lie makes the men act rough, it makes them make their "male habits" more prominent. That increased violence is combined with a sense of vulnerability that's implanted into the mind of every girl. Repulsive rape scenes are everywhere, and do women in those scenes get to really fight back, to tell the rapist that women aren't weak? The answer is a simple no. A woman who thinks that she's weak is going to become a victim, but she has been victimized for her entire life. It tells her that she needs male presence - the new escorts, a vestige of times long gone - to be strong, and that she loses her femininity if she doesn't silently submit to win the martyr race.
Even if we shift to the relatively mild average sitcom. A woman will always collapse after a break-up, and what will cheer her up? A makeover. The gift of her more fashion-savvy friends, who will increase her value by changing her wrapping, by giving her a redesign, by transforming her, the obsolete-model barbie, to a barbie from the 2000's, in an attempt to attract the guy who left her, or to attract a better - richer - guy. There's a clear message, which is that relationships are about good looks, no wonder the divorce rates are up through the roof.
Relationships are portrayed like a dance, in which both partners pretend that they normally walk in the same fashion as they do when they're dancing. The problem is that it's a big play, that eventually collapses, ending in a break-up, a divorce, or a miserable life in which one tries to escape from reality. Why can't men just be who they are around women, why should there always be a mask? It's a mystery, but combine that with approved violence - it's okay to willingly be a victim, and overrated emphasis on good looks, you have a recipe for a relationship that will cause everybody pain.
Some people do manage to escape that cycle, and a lot of them lead wonderful happy lives, but they are rarely there, in the Teletopia that is on TV, the place where all people are up to the South Beach standards. The Teletopia that rarely resembles reality, the reality that we live in, the reality that's distorted by the same Teletopia.
Why can't that Teletopia be full of beautiful women - those who know that their beauty isn't dictated by the numbers on the scale, their bra size, or their waist size? Why can't it be full of hard-working women? Why can't it portray the real struggles of our daily lives? Why can't it be about what we can all do to make life good for everyone of us? It's a mystery to me. However, I'd rather be single for my entire life than to be locked up in a hollow relationship. I may be too young to offer my $0.02, but it is for men to realize that beauty can't be defined and that it isn't physical, it's abstract, that means that it belongs to the world of consciousness. Violence is always a sign of weakness. Be open in your relationships and try to overcome the artificial communication barriers. Dancing all the time just makes everyone tired.
For women, I can say that beauty is inside every one of you, it is you who can bring it out, it's a process that's absolutely free. Age is not a problem, reject that expiry date, dare to change the world through your own work. Make sky the true limit, reject becoming victims, fight back, and don't be afraid to take the lead. Those things are not masculine - it's another society-imposed barrier, they're for free people, and you certainly can be free if you want to. The limits are no longer dictated by books, they're now dictated by behavior. You can always make your own future, just don't let others tell you what you're "supposed to" be. Only then you will know that you're truly free, that you're some of the brave women who were able to overcome all the prejudice, those truly beautiful heroines.
From one of the most exotic places on Earth comes a strong and a rare form of beauty, captured by a doctor who was captivated and determined to help show it to the world.
When I first heard about Joel Pelerin I was told that he comes from a place called the Reunion island, an overseas region of France that's to the east of Madagascar. A hidden Shangri-la in the middle of the Indian ocean.
He says that he wants to show the world the "metissage", or the mescigenetic - mixed ethnic - origins of most of those wonderful women of that Eden. The pulchritude that radiates from the models who collaborate with him is marvelous. One rarely comes across that sort of bravery and beauty from a place that's so close to Africa.
Honestly, I don't think that place or color matter that much. It's challenging the established rules which are designed to keep people from pursuing happiness through actions that do not inflict harm on others. Challenging every artificial barrier will mean that one will be more capable of coming up with unconventional ideas, those are the ideas that change the world. Change is something that we all desperately need. Those women are discovering their potential and helping others discover theirs, may their rekindled passion retain its vigor. This is what we truly need, new ideas.
We often come up with various reasons for being slaves to commercialism, for serving our own purposes without paying attention to others. The world around us is just full of advertisement that ratify greed. The super-ego driven actions provide much better satisfaction and fulfillment than any id-driven actions. However, this is something that not many people talk about, and something that an average ad never highlights.
Many may have experienced the pleasure of giving a gift to another person. Just seeing the happiness in the eyes of another human being and knowing that you were able to make someone's day can fill your heart with infinite joy and elation.
However, when you think about it you will probably realize that material presents are not of any real value. Flowers wither away, chocolate isn't that long-lasting, and any perfume, no matter how expensive it is, will evaporate into the air. What is the perfect present then?
Beauty. True beauty is immortal. That's why those ladies who share their beauty with the world have deserve all the respect that we can give them. Some of them may have the wrong motives, but the message is always the same. It is a value that we all share, no matter of what color or shape we may be. It is the value that connects us all, and the value that we should long for in times of conflict. Once we learn how to see the beauty there will no longer be any wars or any bullets.
We all can be beautiful if we take the time to discover our own beauty. It transcends the shape and form, curves and shadows. No matter how beautiful the external shape may be, it is nothing but the mere shell. Real beauty lies deep within a woman's/man's mind, and that is some form of beauty that never withers away, but that few persons manage to rediscover.
Real life can be like a raging sea, we start with a boat which holds our holy grail; our self-respect, our understanding that we are beautiful. Unfortunately, once the waves start rising we forget about the important values that we have on the boat. The sea just steals them away when we're too busy trying to survive.
I was discussing Humanlandscapes with Phill Miller, and he said: "My book is a great gift book for either valentines day or mothers day as a gift to a wife or girlfriend. It says eloquently to the women that "you are beautiful."... I believe that more exposure to beautiful and respectful images of the nude is healing for both men and women."
I do agree with him. This book is beautiful and can serve as a way for you to tell someone that you find him/her beautiful. It is a book of great value and quality, but that is not the point, and it is not the only way to give someone that message of trust and respect.
There are simple ways of doing so. Giving a person a source of inspiration can do, but why don't you become the source of that inspiration. To guide that other person along the way, and to help him/her discover his/her true self, his/her inner beauty, and his/her self-love. Isn't this the gift that those brave ladies are giving to us after all?
Whatever you decide to give someone else on any day to make them happy, just make sure that it has a lot of beauty in it. Humanlandscapes is book full of beauty, and so are you.
Hope for the journey is all that we need. It's the destination that keeps us rowing, it can seem real, but when we get there we can discover to our dismay that it's nothing but a mirage.
Every one of us has a different goal, a different destination that keeps him/her moving forward, but what if that destination turns out to be nothing but a figment of imagination. We often wish for things that actually make us suffer, what if that paradise is nothing but a disfigured hell?
I don't think that the problem lies in choosing the wrong destination, the problem is not spending time enjoying the journey, not feeling the spirit of the way.
We can reach the destination through greed or malice, but then we will probably realize that we have wasted our lives seeking the wrong pleasures, the wrong ideals. Shortcuts may offer temporary success, but they can never offer satisfaction.
There are a lot of optical illusions and things often aren't what they seem. However, there are things, derived from each other, that are always honest. They include beauty and ethics. Both are found in our surroundings and are just waiting to be discovered.
That's what we should hope for, the insight and the ability to discover beauty along the way, so that the journey is worthwhile, even if we arrive to the wrong island.
That's how we can build a good world.
There are a lot of things in the world that every one of us cherishes, it's one of the things that make us special. We have all those warm memories, all those moments, and all those ideas and beliefs that we hold. Beauty represents all of that for each of us, and that's why it's so special.
Anyone who is into wine tasting knows the value of a glass of fine wine, all the memories and smells that it carries; the sun that suddenly shines out of nowhere, the meadows, and the vineyards are some of the visions that some may have. I think that it is this fantastic nature of it that makes fine wine so expensive.
However, wine is material, beauty isn't, and that makes it much more powerful in my opinion. It's out there, and it is, more often than not, absolutely free. It is this non-inhibited nature of beauty that makes it so despised; that's why it is often considered a bohemian value in our world of pure order and classification. We strangle our own senses through that mundane system; an average person sees a nude picture and he or she will gasp and call it obscene, or will just dismiss it as a product of perversity, without even thinking about it, and he or she will feel satisfied for that quick judgment. It is this exact lack of connection with beauty that makes us often feel very powerless.
Yes, we will make it on the deadline, we will get that degree, but there's a lot of scarring along the way if you don't manage to rediscover your passion for beauty and your connection to it. That's what will make the journey enjoyable; unless you take an occasional rest, a dash along the most beautiful trail in the world will still leave you breathless.
Note: This is the first gallery from Michelle 7, it's one of those rare websites out there that offer premium fine art nudes. It has left a very good impression of me so far, but I am yet to fully explore all of the beauty that's there. There will probably be more to come from there.
I often wonder whether we can be held guilty for slandering beauty or not. There are a lot of websites out there that are trying to commercialize beauty, and those often leave you wondering about what they're really selling. Are they charging you for nudity or are they charging you for the cost involved in creating beautiful pictures?
I think that it all depends on the website in question. Some websites seem to have a philosophy that's more about objectifying the models: offering their pictures for sale in a way similar to how a purveyor stacks up his/her goods to lure potential customers. I think that it is not a humane or even an ethical business model, and I am really sorry to see it succeeding. It just seems that people are less picky about what they buy than ever before. Human females aren't goods, neither is nudity. There's a human aspect involved. Models have unique personalities, they're not just pretty faces or beautiful bodies.
A pretty face withers away, so if a beautiful body, what really remains is the beauty that will shine through, even 50 years later.
Beauty isn't something that can easily yield to commercialization, that's why most of the websites out there offering all daily updates almost always don't get it right. It's more like junk food, you get cheap artery-clogging food that will make you feel transiently satisfied, but that will leave you feeling lethargic afterwards. It is this mental lethargy that threatens the status of beauty, and that impairs the judgment of men regarding what constitutes real beauty and what is nothing but commercial trash.
I don't think that I really get it, what's so attractive about a model in a bad location who's being forced to spread her legs in almost every pose? I think that most of us know how vulvae look like, and the mere degradation of females and making them nothing but "vulvae and breasts" seems to be the common subliminal message that those websites are promoting, and that may be the reason they're so appealing to a wide base of users, they may be appealing to a hidden instinct, some form of digitalized prostitution that is being passed off as "erotic art".
No wonder some models still feel some shame about their nude pictures, not because they're nude, but because beauty is a powerful value that needs an experienced photographer, someone who actually values beauty, to handle and capture it.
It may be true that we will never be able to capture all the beauty out there, but beauty is powerful enough to shine through in most good pictures. That mere glimpse of beauty is what we see, and the powerful effect of it just leaves me feeling optimistic.
I think that Body In Mind is one of the few websites out there that apparently care about the models. The human aspect shines through in their images, take this gallery of Maya for example, it may look like an average gallery that may appear at any other website, but what I really like is her attitude. I can't claim that Maya is a prototype of beauty, there's no such prototype, but I think that the thing that makes her that beautiful in this set is her "I will fight for my rights" attitude that shines through in a two images or so. They do make their own mistakes at choosing some galleries, but I think that Dwayne is doing a pretty good job so far.
I think that what we need out there is more people who actually care about the models and who enjoy what they're doing. We also need more confident models who are strong and who believe in what they're doing, who are active participants in the creation of such galleries. I am surprised to learn that it is a very rare attitude.
Nothing is worse than degrading and destroying the beauty of a model for the sake of earning some extra dollars. How can we fight it? I think that we can try to fight them by supporting the movements that are about true liberation of women and about good representation of their beauty. There's no perfect movement out there, but I think that Super Beauty is somewhat close, but yet a bit far. Maybe one day I will be able to realize that dream or to change that general attitude through my work or my words, I hope.
Think about it!
How can we survive in a world of lies? We can take a look in the mirror, is what we see who we really are. Sometimes we can see beauty, at others we can see pure hypocrisy.
Just notice the reflection of pure beauty, of values gone-by, of a spirit that's carefree. Look at morality, staring you in the eye and asking you, how can't you see?!
We were born to be free. Shackled in chains we can no longer see, the beauty that was childhood's fantasy.
Why is it so, I shall wonder, but till then, how can we claim that we are alive when we smother the soul of humanity, beauty.
Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fair numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, "This poet lies,
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces."
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it and in my rhyme.
- Shakespeare's Sonnet XVII
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Beauty is the value that we all search for in life, we often die without experiencing all the beauty that life has to offer. It is the ultimate teacher and inspirer of all values and all the positive things in life.
Female beauty is one of the superior forms of beauty, for it is simple and is combined with the beauty of life itself. It can be the ultimate teacher and is an eternal source of happiness, for beauty does not wither.
It's a very powerful force, and that's why it's often feared and vilified, but when we listen to what it has to say, the world will defnitely be a better place.
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