So, a fashion brand published a picture on their website showing kids in t-shirts running around the beach and a naked guy in the background, who's enjoying a refreshing dive in the sea. The photoshoot was done in a free recreational area, one that gives you the lovely beach- and the lovely real people that come with it ;) Off course we generally photoshop real people out of any commercial material, but there we are :) See: [url=http://www.styleite.com/media/la-redoute-naked-man-kids-photo/?pid=10528... Redoute Naked Man Kids PHOTO - Styleite| [url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/04/la-redoute-left-red-... Redoute left red faced after publishing photo of naked man in children's ad - mirror.co.uk
What surprises me is that apart from a good laugh. Perhaps a slab on the wrist of the photoshop-guy. Maybe even an apology to Mr Unknown in the background for using his image without permission. There are people who are actually feeling terribly offended by it. As if the crime of the century was just committed. The brand is making apologies all over the place. For a picture that was online only for several minutes... Really? :confused:
All I could think is; yep, it's scandalous! One naked guy in the background totally changes the mood of the picture. They should have captured a naked happy family in the background. That would have fit the scene far better :)
Well, he appears amply endowed. Perhaps HE should thank the clothing company.
Nice post, Red.
I've always thought it odd how male nudity is bad but female nudity is ok. Part of me thinks it's because it's a male dominated media, but I wonder if it's because society seems to think male genitals are "ugly". Even anecdotally, women I know that love sex will say they don't want to see it. One lady said "it looks like something that should be inside fell out".
Good points, Firmus. Personally, I find female genitalia much more attractive than male. In fact the woman citing "something fell out" is scientifically onto something. We consider the scrotum to be the male equivalent of the labia and the penis is an overgrown clitoris - Freud had it backwards.
I love sex, with men and women, and have a craving for "penis time," as my bisexual girlfriend calls it, but still think the male structure much less attractive than the male - not repulsive, mind you, just less attractive.
Eww you would have to say the technical names too. :)
Is it physically possible for a grown person to say "scrotum" without pursing their lips like they stepped in dog poop? Women have labia, vulva, etc. All these pleasant names. They sound like flower breeds.
Men have to have scrotums, testicles, foreskin, and glans. I mean really, foreskin? It comes with it's own little hood of shame.
As a straight male, I can say men only look good with it put away. Otherwise it's just unfortunate. ;)
Well, perhaps it's because it looks like a flower :) Whereas with men it looks like.... ehmmm... I don't know; a little alien-worm that suddenly pops out and starts growing several times it's size? :rolleyes::D Or perhaps we could just say it's quite a unique organ. My ex-lover used to say everything about male bodies is simply not as soft and sophisticated as it is with women.
Perhaps it's because a vulva is this entrance to a cozy little warm place that looks so inviting, whereas a penis is more like a structure designed for invasive purpose. The word vagina is actually the Latin word for "holder of a sword". Not such a friendly word according to many, even rather possessive. Either because it brings the violent notion of him stabbing her and she is merely there to serve him. Or you could turn it around and say the she is the keeper of his violence. Also a role not unknown to be given to women over the centuries. Either way: I better like the view of a man and a woman fitting perfectly together in a loving and melting way, leaving the weapons out of it :)
Though I must confess I probably wouldn't award the price of beauty to a penis, I would surely not call it ugly either. Fascinated as I am by both the beauty and intricate function of the human body, I've often been staring at my ex-lover's penis, just lying there flat on my belly on the bed. Following every line and mind-mapping every hot-spot. How could something that gives so much pleasure be called ugly?
I would rather not have all that stuff clattering around between my legs. Somehow two homogeneous blobs on my chest seem more ruly (less unruly). But then many of us pay bra makers dearly to keep them truly ruly.
You are so correct Brandye. It's a pain. Literally.
Like today for example, I'm at the gym early in the morning. I'm doing a T pose (or whatever the exercise is called) with 2 20lb dumbbells, and when I relaxed and let them come to rest in front of me I smashed my Special Purpose between them. It's hard to hide that kind of pain in public. :)
I don't care how dumb men would look, I wish it'd all retract into our abdomen like animals. I don't like it being the vulnerable AND easy to reach spot at the same time.
Ouch, Firmus! You did know that is not part of these self-torture-exercises? ;)
I've always wondered how men can -for instance- bike comfortably. Particularly since I found out one can easily hurt a boy by just putting the wrong type of pressure on him (never intended harm, off course!).
Some human males keep things more compact than others. I must say that was also a bit of a surprise to me: I wasn't taught the specifics that in part of a range in erect size, there is quite a range in which penises grow relatively to their relaxed state. Looks of a relaxed penis can be quite deceiving:rolleyes: But yep; retracting is an even more fun trick. Reminds me of my hamster who I used to spoil each morning; rubbing his tummy and feeding him sunflower-seeds. I remember being slightly confused at first; this was clearly a boy, yet something was missing... o there it is! :) Though even hamsters can suffer. His testicles were large for his species. It made him do a duck-walk. Which is not the walk that makes you cool when you're a hamster ;)
Biking requires the compression pants. As you know from your "research" that temperature affects how dangly the dangly bits get. When riding it's horrible because you basically bounce from side to side of the seat horn. Even on recumbents you do. And the older you get the more its worse. That's probably why 80 year olds just shuffle slowly. They're too scared to do anything else. lol
Meh! Maybe those grounded French people at Redoute are simply baffled and bemused by our attitude to nudity. After all, I always assumed that child porn involved naked CHILDREN, but hey, what the hell do I know, being the local village idiot?
Personally, I am predicting the day unknown when we figuratively vanish up our own arses over this business, such that we have no idea about whether we are coming or going over this, or anything else for that matter.
Hi!
I was meaning like hard cycling for hours. On just normal around town or out with kids I don't wear compression shorts.
LOL -people - come on!
Penises and scrotums are cute, furry and DELICATE and it is nice to find some vulnerablity in these guys.
Penises resemble mushrooms with perhaps a longer 'stem' than one usually finds but, hey, I like mushrooms.
In life there are 'trade-offs' women have to deal with breasts and bras and men have to deal with penises, scrotums and these moments of discomfort due to 'compression'. Just 'adjust your dress' as required, I promise I won't look. ;)
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[QUOTE=Firmus;276907]Biking requires the compression pants. As you know from your "research" that temperature affects how dangly the dangly bits get. When riding it's horrible because you basically bounce from side to side of the seat horn. Even on recumbents you do. And the older you get the more its worse. That's probably why 80 year olds just shuffle slowly. They're too scared to do anything else. lol[/QUOTE]
Umm... I don't know what kind of biking you've been doing... I bike all the time in simple briefs and baggy cargo shorts. Never had any pain, discomfort due to having dangly bits. I mean heck worse I've ever had it being kicked there a couple times while wearing a cup during Tak Kwon Do classes... yep hurts like nothing else but nearly as painful from what I've been told for the girls when they caught a stray foot. I don't know what anyone is talking about when they say its uncomfortable etc having everything hanging out down there. You really don't notice it anymore then you notice your toes on your feet.
So long as you also promise to not giggle at the men folk in malls that do the Texas 2-Step when they need to recover from an "uncomfortable situation". Or worse, when things just all of a sudden decide to be excited for no apparent reason, and we have to walk around with our hands in our pants pockets. You know, because our pants just pooch out like that all the time.
Women never, not ever, notice us having to do that stuff? Right? ;)
I think the male organ is as the female organ. I have seen some men that are as smooth as silk and very nice to look at if the scrotum is not to low, the same goes for women, there are some who have a very sweet vagina with small lips and attractive clitoris and others who have lips like to fillet steaks and very ugly. So I think we need to look at our own in the mirror and give it a 1 to 10 score women and men :D
Of course we don't, Firmus.
We're far too busy shopping.