AMATEUR FLESH: MUSETen or fifteen years ago, it was fairly common to find women who took
nude photos, mirror selfies, or
improvised sessions with their partners, and uploaded them to the internet simply because they enjoyed
showing themselves. Forums, personal blogs, Tumblr, Reddit…
There was no financial intention behind it. It was about play, arousal, validation, curiosity, or the simple pleasure of being seen.
Today, that’s much harder to come across. Not because exhibitionism has disappeared, but because
the context has changed.
Now, when a woman thinks about taking nude photos and posting them online, it’s normal for her to ask herself a
preliminary question that didn’t really exist back then:
“If I’m going to do it anyway… why not earn something from it?”
And that question is
neither cynical nor greedy. It’s
practical.
OnlyFans didn’t create the desire to exhibit oneself; what it did was
add an economic mechanism that’s simple, normalized, and socially accepted. Just like photos used to be uploaded for free “just because,” now they’re uploaded to a platform where, in addition to the pleasure of showing oneself,
there’s a financial reward.
It’s not that the
main motivation has changed. It’s that
an extra layer has been added where there wasn’t one before.
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In
1994,
Madonna celebrated the release of the music video
“Bedtime Story”, directed by
Mark Romanek and considered one of the
most expensive of her career, with a
themed party called
Bedtime Story Pajama Party. The event was held at
Webster Hall in New York, in collaboration with
MTV and radio station
Z100.
Around
1,500 people attended the party, all dressed in
pajamas and sleepwear, and the event was
broadcast live on MTV for a little over
forty minutes.
The night ended with
Madonna dancing in the middle of the dance floor to the sound of
DJ Junior Vasquez’s remixes.