September 12, 2004.

The beauty of selfishness

Perhaps the main reason images of beautiful women are frowned upon is because in our society, self-sacrifice is held up as the greatest virtue, and there is nothing self-sacrificing about putting yourself on display. Posing for a photo is a proudly selfish act, and believing that you are beautiful enought for a glamor photo is supremely 'self'ish. Especially if you do it nude! Then there is nothing in the photo except you, no clothes, nothing to hide behind, just you.

And if your nude photo is admired, then your selfishness is being admired and rewarded too.

This infuriates altruists and those who preach or practice self-sacrifice. Watch for it. See if you notice anyone condemning nude photos of beautiful women who isn't also someone who believes self-sacrifice is a virtue.

It's time to question our assumption that selfishness is bad my friends. It would seem to me that in some cases, it is very good indeed. And good in a way that inspires, and celebrates the self in a way that hurts no one, and benefits everyone. Nude images of beautiful women for example.

Now, occasionally, altruists and the preachers of self-sacrifice will claim that a girl who poses nude is sacrificing herself, sacrificing her chastity, privacy, dignity of her 'self' and the ownership of her body and sexuality, sacrificing it for the mere pleasure of men. Indeed, some may even get off on a picture for this reason.

If you encounter one of these altruists, you've got all the proof you should need of their evil. Notice how they denounce women who pose nude, when by their own standards they should give her hero status - after all, according to them, isn't posing nude for men's pleasure a 'sacrifice', in their terms?

It's amazing how easily altruists can see the vile nature of self-sacrifice when it's a beautiful woman doing it for men. Yet how quickly they turn full of praise when someone else does it for some other reason.

Happily, Body in Mind only features women who are happy to pose nude, not as a sacrifice of their virtue, but as a proud statement of their value. We are egoists who proudly enjoy the selfish pleasure of female beauty, and we know that it's self-sacrifice - not female beauty - that is vile. We do not contradict ourselves, like altruists do (the ones who denounce female beauty yet pine for the pretty girl who works in the soup kitchen) and we do not betray our concepts of morality whenever we enjoy the sight of a beautiful nude woman (as altruists do when they selfishly pine for that girl).

It should be easy for anyone to see the evil nature of altruism, as well as the laudable nature of female beauty and the selfish women who share it with us for the profound pleasure of being beautiful.

(Maria enjoys the selfish pleasure of posing nude for our selfish viewing pleasure in this lovely gallery by her husband, Dmіtry Kυrаpоv.)

© 2004 by Body in Mind

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