Full Frontal Nudity Goes Mainstream
Full frontal nudity goes mainstream
By Dr. Paul Rapoport
Sunday, February 11, 2007
It’s not bad for a book by an American that couldn’t be published in the USA. Frank Cordelle’s Bodies and Souls: The Century Project, published in Canada last November, is now featured in one of America’s most popular magazines: Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine.
The March issue, which hit the newsstands today, contains a whole page devoted to Cordelle’s book. More importantly, the images of four naked women, three of them full-frontal, are large, in color, and completely uncensored.
Under the heading “The Naked Truth,” the magazine commentary notes with insight:
“Don’t cover your eyes. The women who appear in Bodies and Souls: The Century Project (Heureka Productions) want you to see them—really see them—in all their naked humanity.”
This may be the first time that nudity of American individuals has appeared so boldly in a mainstream American magazine. The women pictured in O Magazine are aged 24, 45, 56, and 94.
Is this an exception, or is it the beginning of a revolution in how we understand the naked body?
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Further information on the book: http://www.heurekaproductions.com/publicationscentury.html
