Me and the team spent the last two days finalising the BEAUTY + BODY issue which goes live in July. This issue features the work of two photographers who wanted their exploration of the female body to be asexual. I decided to research a variety of nudes from a variety of photographers to find out whether you can differentiate between sexual and asexual. I found a series entitled ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ by photographer Ryan McGinley. The first thing I liked about this series was the different shades, shapes and sizes of the young women he captured. Secondly, although most of the nudes were full frontal, there was nothing sexual about them because their poses weren’t suggestive in any way. They looked very natural and sometimes awkward as if he had snapped them having a naked moment to themselves. The often hypersexualised nudes of women tarnish the perception of photographs of naked woman. The images I selected below remind us that most women don’t spend their time in the nude with an arched back, bum and breast poked out and an enticing stare.

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