Christmas is a festival of images: candles, fir branches, gold ornaments, white stars. Everything is softened, as if reality itself had been put through a filter. Bodies appear in this world, but rarely as bodies — more as silhouettes in coats, hands around mugs, faces lit by warm bulbs. And yet the Nativity story is … Continue reading Naked and Holy: Christmas body images between shame and purity
Why legs are political—even when they’re bare At first glance, legs seem harmless. Everyone has a pair, they’re visible every summer, and they feel uncomplicated. Yet women’s legs have been culturally policed for more than a century. Hemlines, shaving norms, posture rules, and expectations about how women should sit have shaped not only how legs … Continue reading Legs, Gaze, and Liberation: A Feminist Look at Erotic Leg Scenes
The bikini as the first turning point: a scandal on the beach, but no change in everyday life When the bikini was first shown in France in 1946, the appearance of the female belly in public was a shock. The idea of not only showing skin between the chest and hips, but deliberately presenting it, … Continue reading From bikini to crop top: The belly button as a public event
Pornography is no longer a marginal phenomenon; it’s a global mass medium. It is everywhere, shaping fantasies, influencing body images, and setting expectations about what desire should look like. But porn is also a mirror: whatever is skewed in a culture tends to appear there first, in concentrated form. Gender roles, power imbalances, taboos, violence … Continue reading Pornography as a Mirror of Society – Between Liberation and Exploitation
Shame is not just an emotion; it is a system. It is learned, enforced, and mapped onto the body. It defines what may be shown and what must be hidden. In the history of female sexuality, shame is the invisible architecture that shapes posture, voice, breath. When you feel shame, you don’t only shrink inward; … Continue reading Utopias of Desire – What If Shame Did Not Exist?
In erotic literature, desire is rarely neutral. It is force, mirror, awakening — yet for centuries, women’s desire was written from the outside. Female pleasure served as response, proof, or punishment, but not as voice. The female body was the stage for male imagination, not the source of it. In feminist erotic writing, this changes: … Continue reading How Much Power Does a Protagonist Have Over Her Own Desire?
When the Exposed Body Becomes a Weapon Imagine standing in a public square. Hundreds of people around you in jackets, sweaters, properly dressed. And then – you rip off your shirt. Not by accident. Not for provocation. But as a statement. This is exactly what Femen activists have been doing since 2008. This is exactly … Continue reading From Femen to Free the Nipple: Nakedness as Protest
In erotic literature, clothing is never neutral.It is border, language, and instrument of power.It hides, but it also defines what may be seen.To describe clothes is to describe social order. A hemline that’s “too short,” a zipper that comes undone, a uniform that turns desire into discipline — all are more than textiles.They are social … Continue reading Clothing, Control, and Shame – Feminist Readings of Erotic Scenes
When the foreign gaze lives inside us We grow up surrounded by images that tell us what a body must look like to be desirable.These images don’t just look at us — they look through us.They linger in dressing rooms, front cameras, and quiet thoughts before sleep.This is the internalized gaze: the moment we start … Continue reading Eroticism as Self-Empowerment – Writing Against the Internalized Gaze
The gaze as possession Since art exists, the male gaze has shaped how women are seen.It frames, judges, illuminates — always from the outside.In painting, film, and literature, women’s bodies have been shown not as they feel, but as men imagine them. The traditional Male Gaze is not just a look; it’s a structure of … Continue reading Female Gaze vs. Male Gaze – How the Erotic Viewpoint Is Changing
