On the one hand, we’re a society of repressed puritans. On the other hand, we have a thriving pornography culture embodied in the vast world of digital sex-capades and smutty novels like 50 Shades of Ian Gray. Are you a fully actualized human being, capable of enjoying every aspect of your humanity, or do you act out the hypocrisy of the public prude who only gets her groove on with the doors locked, the lights out, and the cell phone set on silent?
I was reminded again of our society’s conflicted attitude toward the celebration of the human body by this article in our local paper. It seems a University of Michigan coed got selected to show her naughty bits in Playboy, and not long thereafter a host of self-righteous commentators flocked to the story to share their (mostly) un-enlightened opinions. What I was struck by was not that there were people on both sides of the issue of whether one should disrobe in a public setting, but that almost everybody, regardless of their level of prudishness, assumed that posing for Playboy is an act taken only by those who have few other long term prospects.
Could it be that Miss Cassidy, our unfortunate protagonist, is actually a well adjusted human being who’s simply rockin what she’s got, and that her chance to appear partly clothed is only one of many opportunities she’s taking to live a rich, full life? What if you stopped worrying about what others think and started doing your thing on all fronts? Would you be able to accomplish more if some of your assumptions about what is acceptable were adjusted? Could you shake what you got (and girl you got a lot), and be really, really something, child? You might start a fire inside.
The world’s a big place. How much of it has a “no admittance” sign in front because of the limits you place there yourself?
