Pinup Vogue | a Self Portrait gallery + Origins of Censorship? (Patreon)

I am extremely proud of these glorious self portraits! Interesting back story: I was supposed to model for a photographer on this day, but at the last minute our shoot had to be rescheduled to to heavy rain (it was an outdoor theme) and he had requested this hairstyle. It took me a long time to do my hair and makeup so I decided not to waste the opportunity and to shoot myself instead!

I am wearing two layers of Lingerie both indie designers from Etsy: one is Christal Sweets (the red bra and panty) and the black strappy is by Blossom Body - together they create a sweet modern vintage look with a hint of bondage ;)

I can't wait to show you the "making of" video in my next post! It was really creatively refreshing to put this all together!

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***Origins of censorship?***

Though on paper I am "uneducated" (a high school dropout), I do always seek to learn new skills and facts about the world around me. Traveling does motivate me to seek deeper meaning in my surroundings, the geography, the history, culture etc. The last few days I have been exploring museums, churches, streets and sentiments of Rome, Italy. 

This place has TONS of epic nude art- Michaelangelo's paintings and sculptures all up in the Vatican church as just one example... The question came up: "At what point in history did it begin to become 'taboo' to depict nudity in public displays of art?" So I asked my people on facebook this prompt, I received a ton of responses, some were just political wankers or mansplainers, but a few people DID provide actual helpful insight on this topic!!

Apparently, nudity was STILL considered controversial even when Michaleangelo was painting the sistine chapel. Obviously things have gotten much more prude today, but it wasn't fully acceptable back then either. 

Nudity in general was a lot more common (public baths, nude olympics etc) until the Black Death in the 1300s. (citing a facebook commenter) Apparently sexual promiscuity was put into question as one of the potential faults contributing to the Black Death- that's when societies and religious institutions started cracking down against nudity a bit more. However, there was still tons of nude art being created for centuries after that.

The most interesting and in depth article someone shared with us on that thread was by FORBES - read it here - it went into detail about how genitals were beginning to be considered obscene or offensive, and there was even a "fig leaf campagne" to cover genitals of classic art in churches and public places (CENSORSHIP!) and there were even efforts involving removing peni from statues...

Anyway it was really interesting to learn more about the origins of censorship, I learned a boatload more as well but I am only sharing the highlights from this delving into my newfound knowledge :)

I hope you enjoyed the self portraits!!

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Peace and Love!! 

*Kristy

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