From the Observatory

Stop Calling Girls Sluts

erikamoen:

drivenbyboredom:

I know this may sound funny coming from a promiscuous guy who makes a living taking photos of naked girls but to some degree I consider myself a feminist. In fact shooting girls has made me a bigger one. Having read the shitty comments and heard stories from girls who got tormented by people after having their pictures published on my site has made me so upset with all the puritanical assholes who think they have a right to say anything about what a girl wants to do with her own body.

Stop calling girls sluts.

Nudity and sexuality are awesome. I don’t know anyone who wants less sex in their lives and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t look at porn from time to time. So why the fuck would you ever criticize someone for giving that shit to you?

Guys guess what happens when you call a girl a slut? She becomes ashamed and embarrassed of her sexuality. Guess what happens then? Everyone gets less sex. How is that awesome? It is not. Fuck you.

Women calling women sluts is even worse. Even if you are in some sort of boring long term relationship with someone you love doesn’t mean you should judge someone else. And maybe one day you are going to do something that someone else would consider “slutty”.  Do you wan’t people calling you a whore just because you wanted to enjoy yourself.  No. So stop calling out other girls for having fun with their lives.

I have very mixed feelings about a site like Is Anyone Up. If you are hiding under a rock it’s a site started by my friend Hunter Moore where he posts naked photos of people that get submitted to his site. Most of these people do not want their photos published. It is fucking cruel and the comments are brutal. It’s just full off assholes calling girls sluts because they took some naked photos for someone they probably trusted at the time. It’s pretty clearly an evil site but I do see an upside.

Is Anyone Up pretty much proves that EVERYONE is sending nudes to everyone and hopefully people will start accepting the fact that being naked and having sexuality is not a horrible thing. People think their lives are ruined once their nudes get out there, and clearly it can have some real life consequences, but I think for most people it’s just embarrassing for a little bit and you move on. With a site like Is Anyone Up you see that you aren’t alone and maybe some of the stigma behind naked photos will start to disappear.

I want to see everyone naked. I want more nudity. I want more sex and you assholes are ruining it. Stop. Stop making fun of the way someone looks naked. No one should feel horrible about enjoying sex and no one should be ashamed of their own body.  Fuck you people.

Stop calling girls sluts.

It is funny (It is not funny. It is sad.) how everyone wants to see naked pictures of women, but nobody wants there to be real, living, breathing, feeling, thinking human beings behind those photos. Pictures are just supposed to spring out of a void, but oh my god, should there be an actual identity behind that picture of a naked woman? GASP. HORROR. HOW COULD SHE.

I’ve heard it multiple times that “the only reason” people read my comics is because there’s naked pictures of me on the internet. But if someone were only interested in looking at photos of my awesome tits, why would they bother reading my comics where there are no photos of said awesome tits? It doesn’t make sense!

No.
People that want to see naked pictures of me look at the naked pictures of me. People that read my comics do so because they like my comics. (And, to be fair, sometimes it is the same person who is enjoying both -but for the individual merits of each medium!)

I draw comics. I pose for photos. I create really cool images for people to look at for free on the internet. I’m a complete, awesome person who makes shit and gets naked.

Love it— ‘cos I do!

zaffre:

I am covered in invisible bruises, and am kind of annoyed that they’re invisible. I mean, if there are going to be tender spots, I damn well want to see them. This makes avoiding them easier. And also, bruises are neat.

Story of my life. Instead I get mystery bruises that don’t hurt. That is not how it works!