Mоrаl Nаtυrе

Perhaps the most popular way to unite morality and female sexuality - and in so doing create female beauty - is to place a nude female figure into a natural setting, as Mаxfіеld Pаrrіsh has done above in Dreaming.

Here, nature is used with female sexuality, and it is precisely this mixture, not any "inherent" beauty in either the woman or the setting, which is responsible for this picture's unique beauty.

Now, those of you who have been following my last few pages should be asking why I am now saying it is the mixture of nature and female sexuality which creates beauty when all along I have been pounding home the idea that it is the mixture of morality and female sexuality which does.

The reason is that nature is just another word for morality to many people. How often have you heard references to nature used as moral praise or condemnation? "It's not natural!", they screech in response to human cloning - or - "It's perfectly natural!", they beam from inside their nudist colony walls.

The truth is: we use nature as a substitute for morality all the time, and to many, it IS morality. Thus it acts in the same way that true morality does when mixed with female sexuality, i.e., it creates female beauty.

(You know, it intrigues me that the people who easily grasp the morality in the beauty of nature, are the same ones who claim to find it impossible to detect even a single scrap of morality in the beauty of women.

More on that next time.)