Is Posing Nude Really the Route to Empowerment?
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Stripping down for the camera used to be something you did if you were an exhibitionist or wanted to really push the envelope. Now it’s something women are doing when they want to show how comfortable they are in their skin. But while we’ve changed the stigma around nudity from shock to encouragement, is the act of posing nude really changing anything for women? It makes you wonder if what may seem like progress may not be. “The jury’s still out on whether or not this sexuality-as-a-commodity can be empowering to the individual woman,” says Newsom. “However, we know the result is a media that fixates on women as sexual objects and doesn’t tell the story of all the other things that make women great — our leadership, our character, our talent, and our intelligence.”