kind of an essay or something, I wrote "carne" at the top.
how many fucking naked women I've seen. naked women making faces, making eyes that look a certain way. what are those faces and eyes trying to say? exposed flesh, torsos, breasts, abdomens, armpits, necks. hairless. flesh usually covered but rudely exposed willingly for the camera, then disseminated. and the women knew people would see the pictures, too. people she'd never ever meet - and people who have never met her.
why, why, why? and why do we look? many women allude to the presence of their breasts, with low cut shirts, tight fitting outfits... but these women... these women bare it all, freely. 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old boys, girls - some younger, some older - will see these images. magnetic, curious - some huge secret that's always been there. they expect adults are competent in knowing what's right, the way you do things, the way of the world. but then you get to adulthood and see they don't have it together nearly as much as they pretend. they can act like dumb beasts, and will really go out of their way to procure an allotment for their acting that way - sometimes like it's what's keeping them going. it can all be so confusing. these images, hypnotizing, supremely disorienting - powerful. WHY are they so powerful, why? Does anyone really know, really understand? Have I seen more naked women than I have clothed?
why is so much of it done, too, as if it were self aware that it was some sort of trespass, some sort of violation - but almost that that was the point, it's main characteristic of value? "Naughty" is a word we usually use for mischievous children. "You're being naughty and nobody knows it." or "Dirty" - why should we desire something which is "dirty", which feels dirty, something that some part of us clearly feels uncomfortable with? Why should that attract us
Through dehumanizing others, thereby dehumanizing ourselves - are we trying to free ourselves from the responsibility of being human?
To turn off the pain that empathy may bring us, the awareness of the great suffering surrounding us - the tragedy of the modern world?
By a very early age, in these days, we can intimately witness thousands of debauched situations - access to which exceeds that which was humanly possible in past ages by many, many times. Thousands of sexual images with nameless faces, faceless bodies - with no concomitant human interaction, no responsibility - a 2d reality with no demands on the viewer besides the participation to find the images, to view the images... to stare, dumbfounded - a slave. A slave who can't help but get caught up in a slavery whose nature they cannot even understand, yet find it almost impossible to turn away