Many people praise Body in Mind for its 'natural' nudes, people who love nature and love the beauty of women, and enjoy seeing them together. But isn't ugliness just as natural as beauty? Do we really believe that nature favors beauty over ugliness as we do? Doesn't nature consider warthogs, maggots, and frogs just as beautiful as tigers, deer, and butterflies?

The reason there are so many beautiful women in the world is not because nature favors beauty but because we do. Centuries of selectivity by men has 'artificially' produced the greatest female beauties in the world. Yes nature can be lovely, but the beauty of the great patterns and monumental realities we see within it are more a fondness of our minds for order and greatness, than an achievement of nature. In fact, the more you appreciate and identify just what it is that you find so appealing about nature, be it the order, the power, the size or shape, the intricacy, or the complete lack of stupidity, the more you will begin to see that these are the same things you find appealing about women, and instead of fawning over nature, you will be moved by the fact that female beauty, indeed all beauty, is created my men in the act of focusing on and valuing these things above all others.

Because so many in society frown upon female beauty and sexuality, many men feel the need to justify their love of female beauty, and so try to fit it neatly into the category of natural phenomena, the ilk of waterfalls and stars. Beauty is natural they say, how can admiring it be wrong? But we need not hide our love of beauty behind nature's skirts, not even our love of women. Female beauty is the representation of values, and admiring it is an act of the most moral man. It motivates us to achieve our goals, to be better people, to be moral. What we should say is, Beauty is good, how can admiring it be wrong?

Female beauty's ability to motivate us to be moral creatures is nature's doing, yes. Nature created our moral center, our power of volition, our ability to choose our values. But our decision to use our minds, to decide to think and to choose, to actually be moral is our own, and we can proudly and properly take credit for it. And beauty is our psycho-epistemological reward for doing so.

When we choose our goals and pursue our values, the beauty that motivates us towards it, whether in trees, mountains, or women, is a reflection of our purpose, our moral code, our values, and is undoubtedly, merely and wonderfully our own creation.

And like our other great achievements, art, romance, and reason, it is meant to be enjoyed and revered more than nature.

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