TRUE CONSEQUENCES
Recently, my mind has been drawn to the ethics of the image. While this line of thinking may pertain to law, social psychology and sexual anthropology, I am most concerned with daily culture, both popular and fringe.
This image represents to me the razor’s edge of what is currently acceptible to most sexual mores and standards now in early 21st century. The taboo regarding the display of nipples and genitalia is observed, the obvious expressions of joy imply consent, and the youthfulness of the bodies celebrate the strength and energy which global economic consensus has enforced. I am referencing capitalism’s Darwinian tenet: Only the Strong Get Rich.
The peoples’ ethnicity speaks to their body language. As the most dominant global tribe, caucasians seem to huddle together, politically, reifying fertility and iconoclastic means of understanding what is good.
Arousal, sentiment, abhorrence and either dire need or dire satisfaction are definitely available in this image, which, while seemingly amateur, displays considerably skillful production value.
STANLEY GEMMELL
2/25/12
