We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
Eva Mendes
Sensuality & sexuality are distinctly different from each other. It means the condition of being pleasing or fulfilling to the senses (not specifically sexual ones). Being the sensual soul that I know myself to be, I crave things that fulfill and excite the senses: waking up listening to rain, meditative, instrumental music, self-care rituals, practicing feminine dance forms like belly dance, going for long walks… These are not sexual pleasures but, sensuous ones indeed.
Nude art for me is a sensual act but at times it can emphasize a lot of sensitive subjects. The drawings/sketches here are solely for one and only one purpose that is to celebrate the beauty of human anatomy which is the most complex engineering that I know of.
Studies suggest that nude first became significant in ancient Greece where athletic competitions at religious festivals celebrated the human body, particularly males. The athletes in these competitions competed in the nude (That’s right).
The ancestry of the female nude is distinct from the males. They embody the divinity of procreation. Naked female figures are shown in very early prehistoric art, and in historical times. The Greek goddess Aphrodite was imagined as life-giving, proud, and seductive (you go girl!).
There are thousands of nude sculptures, paintings, and carvings but unfortunately, a good chunk of today’s society doesn’t fully understand or appreciate the fact that nudity isn’t nasty or perverted it’s simply natural and comfortable.
