Cultural differences

Do you think young Japanese women have been inspired by the previous generations of path-breakers?

I just don’t think there are any good role models for young women. Women who work hard are often viewed as “not so cool” (kakko yoku nai). I mean, there are women in Japan who work hard — like politicians. But people say they don’t look particularly stylish. Others may say “They may be great, but I don’t want to be like them.” Japan just needs to have more “cool women.” For example, Matsuda Seiko continued to be a singer even after getting married and changing men. Things may change more quickly if there were more people like that. But they’re a minority right now. On the other hand, there are quite a few women, especially in the entertainment industry, who go right back to work after having children, so I don’t know.

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Fay Dunaway

"I am furious that they think I'm too old to play the love interest of guys like Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood. Why should I play sisters and mothers while guys like Jack and Clint (Eastwood), who are older than me, have on-screen lovers half their age?"

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Glamour shots

Glamour photography is a sexy, romantic form of photography meant to be erotic without being pornographic. Posing for glamour shots has been common for models and movie stars for years. Because of glamour photography’s allure, many advertisements use glamour photography to catch people’s eyes and interest.



Posing for glamour shots requires that the model trust and feel comfortable with the photographer, especially if the person being photographed is not used to modeling. Most people feel self-conscious and possibly silly posing for glamour shots. Experienced photographers are considerate, striving to create a trusting, comfortable atmosphere.


Posing for glamour shots can be a fun experience that may provide you with photos you (and others) will never forget.

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Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

And read this book, for fuck's sake...

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N.E.R.D.

As sexual overtones in hip-hop music, culture and music videos become more widely accepted, it becomes more and more important for us to pay attention to the affects it has on women's sexuality and body image.



An interesting trend in America that may be partly attributed to hip-hop culture is a change in the mainstream standard of beauty or more accurately, booty. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in 2002, 614 butt implants were performed in the United States. In 2003 that number jumped to 3,885, an increase of 533%. Big butts have traditionally not just been accepted but celebrated in communities of color, and Sir Mix-A-Lot made that clear over a decade ago with his hit song Baby Got Back. Popular culture was a little slower to catch on.



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True or False?

Fantasies of group sex, for example, were the fifth most common among both homosexual and heterosexual men, while fantasies of forced sexual encounters were first among homosexual women and second among heterosexual women. For heterosexual men and women, ob serving other people's sexual encounters was the third most common fantasy.



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Penis Envy

The concept ‘penis envy’, which Freud coined to describe a phenomenon he observed in women – that is, in the middle-class women who were his patients in Vienna in the Victorian era – was seized in this country in the 1940s as the literal explanation of all that was wrong with American women. Many who preached the doctrine of endangered femininity reversing the movement of American women towards independence and identity, never knew its Freudian origin. Many who seized on it – not the few psychoanalysts, but the many popularisers, sociologists, educators, ad-agency manipulators, magazine writers, child experts, marriage counsellors, ministers, cocktail-party authorities – could not have known what Freud himself mean by penis envy. One needs only to know what Freud was describing, in those Victorian women, to see the fallacy in literally applying his theory of femininity to women today. And one needs only to know why he described it in that way to understand that much of it is obsolescent contradicted by knowledge that is part of every social scientist’s thinking today, but was not yet known in Freud’s time.

Escapista - Mr. Lonely

Mr. Lonely from escapista on Vimeo.

The girls sat motionless, with glassy eyes. Their faces were drawn and bewildered with listening, their cheeks powdered with flushes, and it was difficult at that moment to tell whether they belonged to the first or the second generation of creation.