Pinterest feels like a quiet room. White background. Clean tiles. No arguing. No politics. Just “inspo.” That calm is part of the power. A moodboard sorts bodies before you even form a thought. It shows you what kind of waist is “right,” what kind of legs are “allowed,” what kind of breasts are “too much,” … Continue reading Pinterest Bodies – How Aesthetic Feeds Shape Desire and Shame
The power of exposure: when skin becomes a canvas It is a cold autumn evening in an old brick house on the outskirts of town, where the initiates’ breath is visible in the damp air. The walls of the room are covered with peeling paint, but the candles standing at irregular intervals on the wooden … Continue reading From the body to the collective – sorority initiations through shame rituals
Why “naked” doesn’t automatically mean “available” When a naked woman appears in our culture, an old story often steps in front of her: shame, guilt, temptation, the Fall. Eve as the origin of “danger.” The female body as a problem that must be covered, explained, or controlled. That’s why it’s worth reclaiming Eve—not as a … Continue reading Reclaiming Eve – Female Nudity Between Creation and Self-Determination
When people talk about purity culture today, they usually mean a very specific evangelical (often free church) youth culture—especially in the US—with ideals of abstinence, rules of modesty, and the promise that abstinence leads to moral security. Alongside this, there is another, more Catholic strand: Mary as a model of chastity and “purity.” The two … Continue reading Purity culture and the image of Mary: two strands of tradition, one common mechanism
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?
