Hayley-Mаrіе Cоppіn FuzzyLogic

Sometimes being in the business of nude photography is an exercise in illogic. Recently we had some dealings with a certain payment processor, who objected to our site because, in a brief review, they found the name of some famous models. Without checking with us they assumed we were using celebrity names in that shameless way some of the seedier porn sites do. They also complained about questionable marketing tactics because we used the word 'r*pe' in an editorial about the causes of female abuse. They assumed that we were espousing violence in porn like some illegal website. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, but their "policies" red flagged us without so much as one human intelligence actually taking the time to read the site and find out what we were about.

Their issue, then, seems to be this: don't try to mix female beauty and ideas. It's like they are saying "Porn we understand. Porn we approve of, and are happy to make our living skimming off of it. Nasty, even disgusting, in-your-face porn is completely fine, but once you start actually talking about nude women, all bets are off. There can be no good reason to mix beautiful nude photography and ideas." They can't seem to even imagine a site for moral, intelligent men who like to discuss ideas as much as they like nude women. It is so foreign an idea to them that they seem like one of those alien computers in Stаr Trеk who, faced with Kirk's impeccable logic, simply self-destruct in a shower of sparks and blinking lights, wailing 'does not compute'.

Beauty and ideas do belong together. Body in Mind is founded on that principle. Social commentary is not diminished by appearing alongside beautiful nude women, it is enhanced by it. To believe anything else is to engage in the worst kind of fuzzy logic.

Nаdyа Wіldflоwеrs

From a Muslim fan of Body in Mind: "In the late 70s my father was in Iran on a work-related assignment and came upon what seemed to be a bikini march. He never told me what the women who participated were protesting, but the horrendous fate of those women should never be forgotten. The protest probably didn't last for long, for the authorities came into action quickly. The women were shot and their bodies were collected shortly by a bulldozer and dumped somewhere. What's really strange about that story is that there was a sense of pride in my father's voice while telling this horrible story. It seems that he was glad because those women who dared to show some of their beauty to support a political cause met this horrible end." If you're ever feeling guilty about admiring the loveliness of Nadya or any other beauty on earth, remember that it's not admiration but hatred of women that is shameful and destructive to women.