MICHELA MARIDATI, BY ADOLFO VALENTE

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PLAYING ON THE EDGE. PART 6

The Instagram algorithm is like that annoying friend who, once they find something new, won’t stop repeating it over and over. And here I am, stuck for days in this loop: girls showing off a product to the camera, covering a nipple with it… then one wrong move and half a second of full exposure. That’s the trick — that tiny instant, that accidental tease that makes it all so tempting.

It’s not that these videos bother me —I’d be lying if I said they don’t have their charm— but the problem is that my Instagram has become completely obsessed. It’s like it’s telling me: “You wanted boobs? Here, have boobs. Non-stop.” And I’m just like: “Alright, thanks, but I’d also like to see something else, you know?”. It’s that saturation point where the joke stops being funny and you start begging the algorithm for a break.

So here’s the sixth chapter of Playing on the Edge. I’m sharing it with mixed feelings: on one hand, the game is still spicy enough to keep going; on the other, I really hope the algorithm finally lets go of my arm and shows me something different. Because yeah, boobs are great, but life has more channels than just this.



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Led Zeppelin or...

Pink Floyd?

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ELDEHEN’S NUDES

Eldehen is a photographer based in Brussels, Belgium, whose work explores the intersection between the human and the urban.
Trained as an electrical engineer with a focus on optics, he turned technical precision into a personal artistic eye.

His work spans several genres: model portraiture and fine-art nude.
In his images, the expressive power of the body meets the atmosphere of abandoned spaces, creating compositions that speak between the intimate and the monumental, the ephemeral and the timeless.



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You can’t tell what’s AI anymore—and what isn’t.

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PLAYING ON THE EDGE. PART 5

Instagram has become the perfect stage for a new trend among adult content creators: pretending to do an unboxing or present a product while holding it right in front of a bare breast. The trick is simple: the product covers the nipple until, in the middle of the presentation, they lift it, move it, or shift it for a second and—bam!—you see what Instagram doesn’t allow. Then, as if nothing happened, they cover it back up and keep talking about the product.

It’s playful, provocative content that blatantly pushes Instagram’s rules. And since the algorithm keeps feeding me these videos, I’m taking advantage and bringing them here for this fifth installment of Playing the Limit.

But digging into these profiles, I’ve started noticing a pattern: most of these accounts are brand new and have very few followers. Two possibilities: either they’re secondary accounts created by the models themselves to share the riskier stuff without endangering their main profile, or they’re straight-up fake accounts run by someone pretending to be them to lure people in.

The first option makes sense: if Instagram deletes a video or shuts down the account, you only lose a few thousand followers instead of your main community. The second option is just as real: there are plenty of people who have been scamming users for years by pretending to be creators, reposting their videos and building fake profiles to funnel users into external links and squeeze money out of them.

So, in this installment I’m sharing the accounts that look legit, or at least secondary accounts likely run by the creators themselves. But don’t get too comfortable, because behind many of these profiles there may not be a model flashing her nipple—but a guy trying to drain your wallet.



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“Tourist go home.” La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)

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THE NUDES OF NIK-MELNIK

Sergey Nik-Melnik, a semi-professional photographer from Minsk, first set his sights on buildings and landscapes. But whenever he comes across a nude, you can tell he enjoys bringing it into his world. His images don’t aim for raw realism: they’re retouched, sometimes to the point of fantasy, as if Photoshop were just another camera in his hands.

His thing isn’t to show it as it is, but to reinvent what he sees. And that’s where the charm lies: bodies turned into unreal scenes, somewhere between photography and illustration.



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Carpe Diem.

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THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF FRANK NESSLAGE

Frank Nesslage is a renowned nude photographer who, in the 35th anniversary edition of Playboy Germany, was recognized as one of the 35 most important photographers in the world.

His passion is capturing people in their best moment, highlighting their beauty and authenticity. For him, nothing is more captivating than a radiant smile that reflects genuine joy in the eyes.
His work stands out for its remarkable versatility: sometimes provocatively different, other times sensually elegant or creatively clever.



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Let’s see if he gets it this time.

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THE EROTICISM OF RAINER BENZ

For Rainer Benz, nude photography is a way to explore and reveal the role of gender, to capture timeless beauty, and to provoke through what remains unseen.

His images may be “visually striking” or openly provocative, but they always invite us to contemplate the body from an artistic and thoughtful perspective.



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Magic, with Gabbie Carter.

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