Planet of the Nаkеd Bаbеs

Her name is Nаtаshа Hеnstrіdgе, and she is perfect. She has long hair, big breasts, and great legs. She has a flawless face and a superior spirit. This is why she was chosen to play the alien monster in Species and Species II.

It seems our own species still can't seem to shake the idea that a perfectly innocent, beautiful woman must really be a monster on the inside.

In the first movie, Natasha plays SIL, a beautiful human female who was created in a lab out of an alien string of DNA. She walks naked through the movie with the confidence of a child who doesn't know any better. Later, her DNA causes her to turn into a terrible, sex-crazed, mate-devouring, alien who threatens the entire world.

I'm always amazed at how far-fetched the stories of the evil of female beauty have to be to be even remotely possible in real life. They are almost always science fiction. This is because female beauty is not evil or dangerous at all, and is in fact one of the most benign and benevolent forces in all of nature's creation. It exists on earth for our survival and pleasure, not our destruction and misery. If only we could see that.

Yet how many young women have been brutally murdered by serial killers, or burned alive by religions fanatics with political power, or by whole civilizations who practised ritualistic ceremonies of human sacrifice, all because someone believed female beauty was dangerous, monsterous, or other-wordly? Even today, just as many people went to see Species and Species II to see Natasha nude as did to see her blown away.

Only too obviously, the monster is not in beautiful women, it's in us. The flaw is not in their genetic code but in our moral one. Female beauty is not alien or evil, our assertions that it is are. It is not beautiful women who threaten mankind, terribly, it is us who threaten them!

Unfortunately, many people still feel alienated by perfect beauty and will try to push it off the planet, but we should, all of us, men and women alike, take a moment to look out to the stars and then back at this lovely woman, and consider ourselves lucky to have been born on the same planet and into the same species as Nаtаshа Hеnstrіdgе.