walkingman

I want to express my sincere thanks to the models and photographers of Suicide Girls. Though I have been a member of this site for approximately six weeks I have undergone both an epiphany and a metamorphosis during my time on this site. I thought I was the modern evolved liberal male who treated women with equality and not as mere sex objects. Then I joined the site and found myself acting like a horny teenager getting cheap thrills looking at naked pictures. This phase quickly passed and I started really appreciating the courage of the models to bare themselves and their ideas and concepts to a media. They are working with the photographers to convey a message. It is a form of art, an art form, or an art format. No matter how one defines the medium it is powerful and more than mere naked pictures. The body of the model itself becomes the canvas of living art in the form of the tattoos that adorn it, the piercings that perforate it, and the other modifications that alter it. I was now seeing a set of angel wings light and delicate drawn with care and precision on the bare back of a beautiful woman perfectly fitting her body and structure and half expecting her in the next frame to take flight with those wings. Or I was transfixed by the shading and blending of colors on a back or hip to create a bird, snake, or other animal that looked so real that I also expected to see the animal move in the next frame. Tragically it seems that I am not as enlightened as I thought I was when it comes to beauty. I have not escaped the brainwashing of Madison Avenue advertising and Hollywood as to what constitutes beauty. I admit to looking at the silicone-filled airbrushed airheaded photo shopped Barbie doll blondes that we have been told are the symbols and representatives of beauty and liking what I saw. However the more I saw of them the less I liked it. My wife is what I would term a real woman. She would probably never win a beauty pageant but then she would never enter one either. She is happy in her skin. You could call her cute, pretty, or beautiful in the true sense of the word. She like the women on this site define beauty a hell of a lot better than Barbie or some anorexic surgically altered model. I have found that I can spend hours viewing each set looking for special things. First one can look at the physical qualities, the eyes, the nose, the lips, the neck, the hips, the legs, the buttocks, the breasts, the nipples, and then turn to the tattoos, the piercings, and the scars. Then look at the colors and tones of the hair, the clothes, the surroundings, the shoes, the pictures, and the environment. Read the description and title of the work and see how it relates to what is shown. These pictures are more than mere naked pictures and offer a chance for you to open your mind and expand your universe. I am happy that I have been able to grow through my experience here and look forward to further growth. I view life as a learning experience and this has been one of the more interesting.