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What if the face you'd always looked up to - the face of moral authority, of gentle wisdom, and of beauty - belonged to a woman posing placidly & completely nude? Would you respond by rejecting wisdom, morality and beauty as depraved, or would you, perhaps, start to see female sexuality in a new light, as something moral, powerful and deep?

This is the question "posed" to us by supermodels who pose nude.

Supermodels - real supermodels - are tall, and so naturally represent all female authority figures we've ever known in our lives - women we came into contact with when we were very young: school teachers, nurses, mom. They are also extemely feminine, i.e., well-endowed, and so represent human sexuality too.

When a supermodel poses nude, then, like this, she is telling us that sexuality and morality go together - that female sexuality is morally acceptable and that morality can be sexy. And because she represents sex and virtue, together, in one person, she forces us to choose between embracing both or rejecting both when we accept or reject her.

We can't have it both ways. Either we begin to see that female sexuality is completely innocent, or we remain cynical and embittered, without beauty, without morality. As a result the world is changing, and people are turning to female beauty as never before.

And morality too.

Supermodels, who pose nude, are the first people ever to teach us to respect female sexuality. Believe it or not, it's because of them that the world is finally starting to look up to women.

Copyright 1997 by Dwаynе Bеll

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