I was in Borders today looking for an art/travel book and saw a book called Erotic Photography. Of course I picked it up and leafed through it. It was a collectin of photos by a variety of photographers, specialists in erotic pictures.
Turns out the editor(s) of the book think that eroticism only includes women’s bodies. Primarily white women, with some Asian women. No other women of color, no men of any kind were feature as the subject of the shot. I thought it was a pretty weak collection.
And yes, that is my first post in a month. Stay tuned for my thoughts on hair, antibiotics, and the blue-yellow-green color scheme.
that reminds me of a funny story (maybe you remember):
i was at borders in dekalb years ago, looking at books on gender & feminism, which happened to be right next to the section on erotica and sex. so i did a little browsing there as well.
and then, one of the older women from the library where i worked happened to see me, and completely startled me! she said hello, glanced at the books, gave me kind of a strange look, and went on her merry way.
i felt like a five-year-old with her hand in the cookie jar.
I’ve been meaning to comment on this for a while, but i fear I would over run the comment box and go on for several pages, if not days.
*SIGH*
I’ll try to keep it as such: I was looking at a vintage pattern book and I said it was too vintage. All the (baby) models were blond hair (well, it’s baby hair) and blue eyed. I found one brown eyed child (i’m only slightly exaggerating) and ONE “token” non-white non-asian child. otherwise? the book is nice. THAT upset me a lot. I was embarrassed to show the book around my diverse LYS table.