Self Censorship
Satin art may seem like another beautiful art nude figure study featuring our latest Nude Muse, Ellie-Xena, but it signifies something more important than that. Not just freedom of expression, but the freedom to be nude and showing that to the general population as a normal way to be.
un-social media is perpetuating the myth that the body needs to be covered up even in places where nudity or partial nudity is perfectly legal. It is sending a message to those places that being nude (even if legal) is somehow bad. It is controlling what people see, and slowly changing people's perception of positive acceptance of nudity to one of taboo and revulsion.
Think about it. If you’re constantly seeing nudity being banned, even if you are pro nudity and have to self censor, doing so over many years will create a certain mindset, that seeing a nipple, or a bottom , must be bad, that it must not be seen, that it might harm someone. Why else would we censor our own bodies?
Except nudity and seeing another nude human being hasn’t harmed anyone. It is a reaction to an even longer form of conditioning. The response reaction of embarrassment to seeing nudity. That one alone is the biggest and most ingrained social issue that has reached epidemic proportions on the planet.
Yes that is strong language, but it must be used in the instance to shock people into realizing just how serious this is and how far it has spread over time. Letting social media control our decisions and slowly creep up into our minds of accepting censorship, is slowly changing us in a similar way. It must be stopped. Platforms that allow nudity must be supported, and outlets that promote nudity should be promoted.
I hate to use this term, but it is in effect a war of information, a war of perception. Sounds far fetched? Think about how many times you had to think whether you should post an image to facebook or instagram? How many times you automatically covered nipples or bottoms. I bet most times it is now just automatic. Anytime something becomes automatic it signals that some sort of acceptance of this new paradigm has taken place. Do you really want to accept that nudity slowly becomes banned over time?
I remember as a teenager when you could go to any main beach in Australia and come across a sea of bare breasts of both sexes. It was accepted, it was normal. Topless and even full nudity was quite common on TV shows (not just pay tv), but free to air. In many european countries topless females washing their hair in shampoo commercials and the like was normal. Yet today, none of these things exist anymore. It is slow, but over time our perception is slowly manipulated. Shadow banning and self censoring is just the latest tool used to make people less and less comfortable with nudity. It has to stop. It has to be countered.
That is why Nude Muse is here, and people like Ellie-Xena, who are not only happy to be nude, but happy for people to see them while nude. Nudity is normal, let's make nudity great again!
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