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Body in Mind is dedicated to fighting for beauty whenever and wherever it is attacked. Thus we support SuperBeauty.Org in their fight against injustice towards women and hatred of beauty around the world, and you should too. Visit SuperBeauty.Org to fight for the beauty you love. It might sound corny, but it's what heroes are supposed to do. -D.Bell (BiM founder, editor)

 

 

Italian prime minister covers up topless painting

August 6, 2008 - At one time, Italy was known for, among other things, it's unabashed adoration of the female form. Italian television often featured scantily clad women, and the government has boasted at least one former porn star among its ranks.

But recently, the prime minister of Italy has decided to cover up a painting of a bare breasted woman (a detail from Tiepolo's "Time Uncovering Truth) that graces his office.

"It was an initiative by those on the presidential staff who look after (the prime minister's) image." A spokesperson said. "That breast, that nipple...it ends up exactly inside the frame captured by TV news stations at press conferences."

This is not the first time a politician has covered up the female form in a work of art. John Ashcroft did it in 2002, choosing to cover up Justice, ironically enough.

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Dressed or undressed?

What does it really mean to be properly dressed? Usually people use that term to mean that our jiggly bits are not visible, that we have covered them in clothing. But what if we could do this without clothes? Or more still, what if we could keep our jiggly bits from sexually arousing or disgusting those who can see us? We've often seen elegant women dressed to the nines on red carpets half naked, some even revealing their breasts or pubic triangle. And no one freaks out. In fact over the years many top fashion designers have designed clothes that are meant to reveal. So then, maybe a better definition of clothing and being dressed in general is that they are meant to show other people how we wish to be regarded. If we want to be seen as classy, we dress a certain way, if we want to be sexy, another. Expert dressers can pull off both at once. We thought Linda dressed only in light and shadow might give you food for thought on this subject. Even thought she's completely nude, we think she's also perfectly dressed. More...

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Is it safe to sit on the fence?

Sitting on the fence is the safe thing to do. That's the general concensus. If you don't stick your neck out you won't get in trouble, and both sides of an issue will leave you alone. But is it really safe to leave battles over things that matter to you to other people? What if your side loses? Is it really safe to risk losing something important? And what is it you're then safe from? Winning? One battle where almost everyone sits on the fence is the issue of nudity, specifically, female nudity. Clothes themselves are a type of fence, a barrier, a truce in the ancient and ongoing struggle between full freedom and full submission to others. Fashions and degrees of acceptable nudity vary from person to person, culture to culture, and from era to era. Certain celebrities can be naked in the media, while women in some religious cultures can be executed for showing an ankle. Body in Mind believes female beauty like Tanzi's is there to sway us all off the fence, to inspire us all to take sides and to fight for what we believe in and care about. The people who hate female beauty have made their position quite clear. Have you? Get off the fence and take a stand. It's the only safe thing to do. More...

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Feminists blast "Fat Princess" video game

July 29, 2008 - Sony has unveiled a new video game called 'Fat Princess', a type of 'capture-the-flag' game in which the object is to lock up a once-thin princess in a dungeon and feed her cake until her weight balloons. The bigger she gets, the harder it is for your enemies to carry her off.

Feminists are outraged by this. One in particular facetiously said she's 'thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating heteronormative assholes'.

It seems feminists are never happy. If a video game features a svelte, busty young heroine, the feminists blast it. If the game features a plump princess - whom you are supposed to make even fatter as part of the game - they blast it. In this case, they are failing to register that the game's 'fat princess' is the highest value, something considered desirable and worth protecting, even as her weight increases. You would think this kind of thing would make them happy, implying as it does that a woman can still be valuable even with some extra pounds.

There's no 'fat-hating' going on here, or women-hating - just the opposite. And as for 'heteronormative' - meaning the idea that heterosexuality is the norm - frankly, it is. Feminists make it clear that any romantic depiction of a male loving a female makes men into 'assholes'.

Makes you wonder what the world would look like if they really were in charge, doesn't it?

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Nivea ads latest to 'redefine' beauty

July 27, 2008 - Seeing the proverbial bandwagon of 'redefining beauty' that Dove recently made famous, Nivea has now jumped on.

Take for instance, this ad. They're trying to imply that the vague and egalitarian "sparkle" is what makes the girl in this ad beautiful. Now, it's more than possible that a person with 'sparkle' is indeed more attractive than someone without it, but let's be realistic.

Beauty, in this case, is a fine nose, deep, dark eyes, high cheekbones, a strong chin, full lips, great hair, subtle makeup and, finally, a cool expression. In other words, all the reasons this woman was hired for this campaign, and the reason this particular photo was chosen among the hundreds that were taken that day.The 'sparkle' is definitely there, but this woman would still be beautiful without it. And the woman behind her, arguably just as 'sparkly', would not be.

Nivea is trying gamely to cash in on the wild success of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty by moving away from their history as a skin care company and wading into the murky waters of women obsessing about their looks. It's quite a stretch in some cases.

"For our deodorants, the line is "Beauty is freedom", because when you get rid of body odor, you become confident and free." a spokeswoman says.

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What it's really like at a nude photo shoot

July 26, 2008 - Ever wonder what it must really be like to take part in a nude photo shoot, as either photographer or model? We see the finished product, the culmination of hours of careful planning and hard work, and if the photographer has done his or her job, it ends up looking effortless. But it is anything but effortless. It takes mental clarity and focus to pull of a seemingly casual photoshoot.

Here's a brief description of the experience, from both sides of the lens, from an article in Esquire.

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Intellectual property wrongs

Information is free. Or at least it should be. That's what we're told. The world wide web is a triumph for the democracy of information. Right? Wrong. The concept that everyone should have equal access to all data in the world is a very popular lie perpetrated by people who want everything to be free, so that they can sell it, a lie that appeals to consumers who want things for free, meant to take intellectual property away from its owners, declaring that freedom of information is a victory for the 'little guy' in the fight against greedy corporate giants. In fact, the truth is quite different. Most popular nude websites like Body in Mind regularly have all of their content stolen by file "sharers" and credit card defrauders who make money by posting these photos on myriad free image hosts like ImageVenue.com and Rapidshare.com. These image hosting companies then make lots of money from these stolen images either by charging a fee to the public to download them or by posting ads beside them for corporate giants like VISA, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble, etc. The failure of the governments of the world to protect and uphold copyrights helps everyone make money off creative works, except the creators. Just as environmentalists want to destroy property rights so they can do what they want with land, so globalists want to destroy intellectual property rights so they and corporate giants can make money from someone else's creation. More...

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Nigerian bill to outlaw female public nudity resoundingly criticized

July 19, 2008 - A female senator from Nigeria who has sponsored a bill to prohibit public nudity in her country has faced fierce opposition from women's groups there, and most recently, at a meeting of the UN General Assembly.

Senator Ekaette has proposed outlawing nudity to the point of sentencing women who show their belly buttons, breasts or wear mini skirts in public to three months in prison. But she was soundly criticized by everyone from women's groups to civil rights groups to the senate president. Most expressed concern that rather than preventing harrasment, such a law would lead to further harassment of women by police and other authorities who had the power to interpret and enforce the law.

Then, at a UN meeting about the status of women in Nigeria, Glenda Sims of Jamaica challenged the proposed law further.

"Would the police go around with a tape measure to check the length of clothes or see if a breast was exposed?" She asked. "Women have a right to aesthetics of their bodies and the right to present themselves any way they want. A woman's body is the only piece of real estate on which she owes no mortgage. Dress codes are about power and dressing a woman from head to toe is a form of rape."

The committee was more concerned about Nigeria improving it's record on domestic violence, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation and women being punished as adulterers for being raped.

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Inner beauty versus outer beauty

Many people claim that when it comes to human females, unlike everything else in the universe, beauty is actually on the inside. But by praising "inner beauty" they are actually attempting to downplay and belittle "outer" beauty. This is why they never tell us exactly what character traits actually create this "inner beauty". But in reality, "inner beauty" is responsible for making a woman beautiful - not figuratively, but literally. "Outer" beauty is actually the result of the physical appearance of certain "inner" character traits which a woman possesses or else appears to possess, including purpose, self-esteem, intelligence, innocence, happiness, benevolence, selfishness, etc. If a woman like Vika appears to possess these things then she becomes beautiful. More...

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Arch angel

Angels. From the little cherubs with rosy cheeks to Satan himself...angels come in all shapes and sizes. An invention of early religious scholars, angels were originally male. Satan was one of the orginal angels, an archangel in fact, like Michael and Gabriel. It's only after millenia that artists began to invent the female version. Such a creature is never mentioned in the Bible or the Koran. Yet beautiful women as angels satisfy a real need in us, the need to find a perfect woman, a woman who will rescue us from depravity and suffering with her virtue and beauty. We often see photos of beautiful nude women wearing wings. The wings are an awkward attempt to represent virtue, which is pretty hard to depict in a photo, but we think a woman like Linda shows it quite well, not only in her pride in herself, but in her happiness, her confidence, and her courage. So we left the wings off, because even without them Linda is still 100% angel - an arch angel. More...

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Teacher suspended over nude photo will sue government

July 15, 2008 - Do you think a primary school teacher should be suspended over this photo? An Australian schoolboard does, but surprisingly, hundreds of parents in the district don't. They've even signed a petition demanding the teacher be reinstated.

24 year old Lynne Tziolas was suspended after appearing in this photo with her husband in Cleo magazine. Parents of her students lodged a formal complaint with the Narraweena Public School, claiming her suspension has disadvantaged students.

The decision was overturned, but Tziolas is suing the government for refusing to place her back in her old position, assigning her to a school more than an hour away from her home, and placing her in a special needs classroom, for which she has no training.

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Chilean subway stripper arrested

July 13, 2008 - It took several armed men to arrest Monserrat Morilles of Santiago Chile. News stories show her anguished face among a sea of olive green police uniforms being bundled off into the back of a police van. Her crime? Dancing on the subway.

Morilles, 26, spent the last week pole dancing on the subway trains of Santiago to 'challenge the prudishness of Chilean society". She would enter the trains at one stop, strip down to her skimpy underwear during a pole dance, and disembark at the next stop to avoid arrest. The media dubbed her "La Diosa del Metro" (Goddess of the subway), and she called her performances "happy minutes".

So of course it had to be stopped. Chile is known as one of South America's most conservative societies, and is barely a generation away from the rule of the notorious dictator Pinochet.

"This is just a beginning." Morilles said as she was led away. "We are starting an idea here that will grow and be developed further."

Thanks to Youtube, at least we can still her doing her part for beauty.



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Russian town unveils breast sculpture

July 12, 2008 - The town of Bataisk, Russia has set up an unusual sculpture in a city park - a nude female torso with a man's hand cupping one of the breasts.

Sculptor Anatoli Sknarin created the sculpture based on a similar piece he saw in the red-light district of Amsterdam. Officials say the sculpture will bring "family happiness" to any man who touches it.

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Kyla Cole versus 70 virgins in heaven

Saudi cleric Omar Al-Sweilem recently described the beauty of the virgins who supposedly await any suicide bomber in heaven: "...when she comes to you so tall and with her beautiful face, her black hair and white face - praised be He who created night and day. What hair! What a chest! What a mouth! What cheeks! What a figure! What breasts! What thighs! What legs! What whiteness! What softness!" He told us that if you entered one of the palaces, you would find ten black-eyed virgins sprawled on musk cushions. "When they see you, they will get up and run to you. When they get hold of you, Jamal! Allah Akbar!...one of them would place her mouth on yours. Do whatever you want. Another one would press her cheek against yours, yet another would press her chest against yours, and the others would await their turn. There is no god but Allah." Okay, let's see if we have this straight: admiring beautiful women is evil on earth, but kinky sex with strangers is perfectly okeydokey in heaven? You know, we'll just take the earthly beauty of the one and only Kyla Cole any day. You can't replace beauty with sex, or quality with quantity, or real life with thin air, or virtue with hypocrisy. And with beauty like Kyla's around, why would anyone want to? More...

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Eternal lover

As beautiful as a field of lush crimson poppies looks, it might seem like an odd place in which to photograph a beautiful woman. Poppies, after all, are a symbol of sleep because of the opium derived from them, and death because of their lurid blood red hue. A whole field of poppies evokes the image of a drowsy, dreamy, eternal sleep, not the sort of place to find the vibrant, engaging delight for the senses that is a beautiful woman. Yet we think this set by new BiM photographer Iurii Galmour shows the beauty of Ingrid to perfection. After all, the Persians call the poppy 'the eternal lover' flower, and see it as a symbol of love - and what's not to love about Ingrid? More...

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Bush's stimulus package helps porn sites

July 6, 2008 - It's little wonder that a story featuring the words 'bush', 'package' and 'stimulus' would end up being about porn.

Back in January, President Bush announced an economic stimulus package designed to encourage 'higher consumer spending". In recent weeks Americans started receiving their $600 stimulus checks - and promptly started spending most of it on porn.

A market research firm reported that many adult websites reported a 20 to 30% increase in memberships since mid-May, and that 32% of survey respondents said the recent stimulus package formed part of their decision to either become a new member or renew an existing membership.

"Getting more people to buy porn was probably the last thing Bush had on his mind when he came up with his stimulus package, but we'll take it. " a spokesman said.

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Sexy Furniture

July 6, 2008 - Mario Philippona of the Netherlands is a sculptural artist who uses his love of the female form as inspiration for an intriguing line of furniture.

His "sexy furniture" - everything from long legs in high heels that hold your office supplies, to a cabinet on heels with an inlay of a female profile - mixes form and function in a unique and charming way. He designs his works in life size drawings and then assembles the sculpture from pre-cut layers of wood.

Mario himself says it best "Female forms, the most attractive in nature, inspired (me)".

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Sold Out!

July 3, 2008 - The new Body in Mind hardcover book "Superbeauties: Nude and Natural" has sold out twice in the first week of its release on Amazon. But don't worry, more copies are on the way.

Check out your favorite BiM models - like Nikkala Stott, Peta Todd, Klaudia, Tracy, Arielle and a host of others - in this collection of the most superbeautiful photos ever produced. Get yours here.

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Body in Mind member's say....

Body in Mind member   A.H.  says

on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:25:08

"Ashley is an awe-inspiring lady! She is the dream woman that becomes real. You melt down with her smile. Her beautiful face and her breathtaking body! Well, you don't need to die to reach paradise!"

Body in Mind member   Brian  says

on Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 21:02:52

"Now that's a classy way to wear a smile! Hope to see this model again."

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Beauty in quotes

July 2, 2008 - Throughout the ages, philosophers and poets have opined about beauty and what it means. Here are some of our favorite quotes on our favorite subject:

"Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness" - Stendhal, "On Love"

"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful" - Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive." - Nikos Kazantzakis

"Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world" - Amos Lee

"Beauty is the evidence of why we are here." Adrian D Canfield.

"Anyone who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old." - Franz Kafka

"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful" - Ninon de l'Enclos

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty" - Christopher Morley

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone" - Goethe

"Beauty...when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart" - Nate Dircks

"The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way" - Don Williams Jr.

We love that all these quotes fit in nicely with D.Bell's theory that beauty is the representation of values. Can you see why?

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Miss Universe airs live from Viet Nam July 13

July 1, 2008 - The 2008 Miss Universe pageant will be broadcast live on NBC from Nha Trang, Viet Nam at 9pm ET Sunday July 13.

This year's hosts are Jerry Springer and former Spice Girl Mel B. Check out the gallery of this year's contestants, and if you happen to be in Viet Nam for the event, you can request tickets here.

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Beauty3d: Naked Covergirl v2 demo lets you be an erotic photographer

June 30, 2008 - Ever dreamed of being an erotic photographer? Well now thanks to Kaplay Studio you can explore your fantasy job with the latest demo of Beauty3d: Naked Covergirl.

In this simulation game you play an erotic photographer, Jacky, taking photos of three beautiful girls on a tropical island. Apparently the girls are 'realistic and beautiful' in 3d, and will pose and dance for the player. The official version retails for $39.95

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Breath takers

It goes without saying that BiM photographer Michael White is one of our favourites. His photos of page 3 models such as Nikkala Stott, Michelle Marsh, and Peta Todd are already classics, if we do say so ourselves. So we're thrilled to introduce our readers to Michael's new site, Breath-Takers.com. Created with close collaborator, Nuke, Breath-Takers.com is exactly what it sounds like, a nude site dedicated to bringing its viewers all those moments when the sheer beauty of a woman takes our breath away. From soft sex-kittens in knitted sweaters to hard-edge vamps in fishnet and leather, no nuance of beauty is missed. And more than that, no site we've ever seen is better at capturing the way a nude glamour shoot really feels as it's happening. Look through 3 or 4 sets in the members area and you feel like you're one of the crew. Look through more, and you start to feel like you're one of the model's best friends, privileged to have your breath taken away. Beauty does that. Breath-Takers.com does it too. More...

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Beauty and the law of cause and effect

One of the amazing things about beauty - true beauty - is that you can put it in the ugliest places and it still shines - like a diamond in a coal mine. In fact, real beauty can make everything nicer. For example, Carmen in this old warehouse makes it look pretty good. The dusty greens and drab grays look really good against her pink skin and strawberry blonde hair. This is why we see so many beautiful women in advertising. They make things look good. There wouldn't be any advertising - no billboards, no magazines, no tv commercials - if there were no beautiful women to make it work in the first place. See here. To suggest - as many people do these days - that uglier women should be used is a logical contradiction. Beauty causes advertising, not the other way around. You can try to replace beauty with ugliness, but just as stealing wealth won't make you a good businessman, or hitting someone with a club won't make you right, removing beauty won't make things better. Only adding it will. More...

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British museum receives complaints about nude mummies

June 26, 2008 - File this one under 'You've got to be kidding...'

The Manchester Museum in England houses Britain's largest collection of Egyptian artifacts. But following complaints from visitors about the mummies being displayed "naked", the museum is going to keep the mummies covered until they can figure out how best to display them.

Egyptologists decried the move as a 'step backward' for an educational institution. It certainly is, but we think it's a far more telling sign of how hysterical the world is becoming about nudity. When a waxy 3000 year old remnant of a person can be deemed immodest, things have definitely gotten out of hand.

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Austrian women beat Germany in topless soccer match

June 24, 2008 - With many European eyes on soccer during the run-up to the Euro 2008 finals, we'd like to take a moment to praise a group of lovely young German and Austrian women for making 'the beautiful game' even more beautiful.

Erotic actresses from both countries took place in a 5-a-side topless beach soccer match on a Danube river island in downtown Vienna last week. The ladies wore only thongs and painted-on shirts in their national colors.

The verdict? Austria beat Germany 10-5. "They might have to work on their technique a bit, but it was definitely a rather pleasant game to watch." said a spectator.

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What's the connection between beauty and a free market?

June 23, 2008 - Ever wondered why there seemed to be an explosion of stunningly beautiful women from the former Soviet Union during the early nineties?

In this article, Anne Applebaum poses the interesting hypothesis that beauty only thrived once communism died. Before the liberating forces of capitalism, there were no fashion magazines, no tv shows dependent on beautiful stars, no cosmetics or haute couture and no rich men to dress up for. On top of that, unusual beauty, like unusual genius, was considered "highly suspicious" in the former U.S.S.R.

Yet another reason to defend capitalism. As Applebaum says, "...cheer up next time you see a Siberian blonde dominating male attention at the far end of the table: The same mechanisms that brought her to your dinner party might one day bring you the Ukrainian doctor who cures your cancer or the Polish stockbroker who makes your fortune."


*Thanks to BiM member John Van S. for this story.

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Beauty can save the world, really

We at Body in Mind are always telling people that beauty can save the world. And we mean it. But rarely does a beauty come along who perfectly illustrates our point. How does it work? Simple. If you're a young man, and you're healthy and possess a normal sex drive, you will find Klaudia very beautiful, and you will begin to fantasize about her. If you have a mind you will fantasize not only about sex with her, but about having her as a girlfriend, about her falling in love with you and so on. And if you're a moral man, you will know that to make this happen you will have to earn it, you will have to impress her as much as she's impressed you. And to do that, you will have to do something great. That is how beauty will save the world. It makes intelligent, moral men great. Start saving yourself, and the world, today, at Body in Mind. More...

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Oregon woman plans to parade topless on 4th of July

June 22, 2008 - Jen Moss, a.k.a "The Naked Lady" of Ashland, Oregon, is going to march topless in the town's annual 4th of July parade. And if she's prevented from doing so, she'll sue.

Moss left her hometown of Ojai, California and came to Ashland because the town only prohibits exposing the genitals, effectively allowing toplessness. She celebrates this by habitually riding her bike around town without a top. But when she signed up to march in the parade, she was told it was 'inappropriate for a family event' and wouldn't be allowed to participate.

She plans to contact the ACLU about a law suit if she is prevented from joining the parade.

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Nude at the office - collectors' edition

It's hard to believe it's been 3 years since Body in Mind first brought you our ground-breaking photos of Nikkala Stott nude at work. Not a cheesy sexy secretary thing. We've all seen that done to death. Our idea was different. Imagine a world where a beautiful woman can feel free to be as nude as she likes, and what better way than to show Nikkala Stott nude at work without any adverse reactions or consequences. In fact, this idea inspired a whole day-in-the-life series where Nikkala integrated the beauty of her nude body into as many real life situations as possible. We love that idea and we thought Nikkala fans would love to see the photos we didn't use in the first edit of this set. It's a collector's must have, as is the entire day-in-the-life series. As, of course, is anything Nikkala does. More...

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The beauty of spring

Spring is amazing. It's the time when all living things start to invest all their effort in being beautiful. Everything is coming back to life, growing, filling with color, reaching for the sun, blossoming, giving birth, filling the earth and skies, and changing the planet for the better. It's the time when the earth re-affirms the importance of physical beauty. Animals and plants use the power of beauty automatically. But we humans can't. We lost this ability when we gained the power of volition. But we gained the ability to choose our values. We became capable of choosing the wrong values, but also of choosing to build on the right ones, something animals and plants can't do. So this spring we at Body in Mind remind everyone to choose beauty, and to build on its life-giving, life-building, and life-affirming qualities. Purposely surround yourself with it and let it inspire you like fresh spring air. Put up your favourite photos from Body in Mind everywhere, like leaves on a tree, and do it with the knowledge that nature wants you to, and for good reason: to be and feel alive! More...

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Nikkala Stott fully nude

The most common question we are asked at Body in Mind is when is Nikkala Stott going to get completely naked. The answer is, when she's good and ready. The tone of the people who ask this question if often very rude, very accusing and very impatient, as if Nikkala is teasing them too much, or as if Body in Mind is not giving them what they've paid for. We've actually refunded memberships to a few guys who were downright hostile about it, as if they deserved to see Nikkala naked just because they managed to come up with 10 bucks for a membership. What everyone needs to remember is that Nikkala is one of the most beautiful women to ever exist, and that we are all incredibly lucky to lay eyes on her even fully clothed, let alone half naked. And if we ever get to see absolutely everything God gave her, it will be as if we've died and gone to heaven. But just like on earth, there's a LOT to enjoy before that happens. More...

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Selling beauty

Did you know that star BiM models Nadya and Britney are actually Ukranian sisters? It's very difficult for photographers to find beautiful women to pose nude anywhere else in the world. In the late 80s and early 90s even the world's most famous models and actresses had no problem appearing fully nude. Cindy Crawford, Madonna, Sharon Stone, all made more money than any woman ever before simply by using their beauty, in fashion, music, and movies. But since then, the success of beautiful women has been misrepresented as the opposite, as degradation and exploitation. But women like Cindy, Madonna, Sharon, Nadya and Britney are anything but victims. They are powerful women using their beauty to get what they want. And unless we want also to lose all our eastern European nude models to the modern tide of political "correctness", it's time we learned that selling beauty is a good thing. More...

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Peta and Nikkala show off football skills for Samsung

May 31, 2008 - Check out this amazing Samsung ad featuring BiM favorites Peta Todd and Nikkala Stott showing off their ball-handling skills. Way to go girls!

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Can YOU perceive beauty?

One of the startling predictions made by D.Bell's theory of female beauty is the existence of people who lack the capacity to perceive any beauty at all. The beauty blind. We all like to think we have great taste and can appreciate great beauty, but how do we then explain the ugliness of our cities? How do you explain so much repetition in all areas of aesthetics, from the identical front lawns of suburban homes to the endless stream of nude images we find online. Do we all share the same taste, or do we copy others precisely because we can't perceive beauty for ourselves? D.Bell says the latter. Because we lack instinct to tell us what is good or bad for us, we must choose our values for ourselves and we need a way to continue to be attracted to them even when we're tired or forgetful. This is provided by our faculty of beauty. Beauty is the representation of our values. Invariably, we find beautiful anything that possesses or reminds us of our values. Therefore, those who fail to choose their values, simply copying the actions of others, are rendered incapable of perceiving beauty. This is why there's so much ugliness in the world. There's only as much beauty as people who choose their values. More...

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From Russia with Love

Alexander loves female beauty and takes brilliant nude photos of the loveliest ladies he can find. But because there's no such thing as property rights in his land, his photos are soon taken and distributed to anyone interested in them. Alexander is not paid. And he has no money to give to his models. We like to think things are different here, but there is actually no country on earth that offers protection for property rights - let alone intellectual property rights - in their constitutions. Not even the USA. This is why the Digital Millenium Copyright Act allows websites to let their users publish stolen work. The result is hundreds of thousands of MP3s, movie videos and even Body in Mind photo sets being stolen and illegally 'shared' around the internet every day. And it is only by the good graces of those honorable enough to pay for them, that any of them exist in the first place. And it's thanks to them that Alexander has his own site now, called From Russia with Love. More...

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The pillar that is female beauty

The sheer numbers of nude images of beautiful women on the web today is incredible. Many people would say the fascination men have with naked women is a sign of decaying moral values, and that prefering an image of a beautiful woman over a loving sexual relationship with a real woman is just plain sad. But the fact is, female beauty represents one's values - whatever we find beautiful we do so because we want it in real life. So a man might adore Maya's photos because he wants in real life what she seems to possess, be it beauty, confidence, power, or lifestyle. His moral failure to pursue these things in real life and in a real woman is his fault. Female beauty tells him to act; society tells him not to trust it, so he limits himself to impotent fantasies. Therefore it's those who deny the moral importance of female beauty that cause modern moral decay, and there are more of them, certainly, than photos of nude women. More...

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Woman is the decoration of the world

Beauty is not the same thing as decoration. Decoration is something you put on things that by themselves are not beautiful. For example a cake, or a dance hall. A beautiful woman, therefore, should never be decorated - no jewellery, no nail paint, no tattoos. This is because beautiful women are the decoration of the world, and as soon as you decorate them, our attention is drawn away from the aesthetic harmony between woman and the world and is focused on her bracelets, or her lingerie, or anything else used to decorate her. But when a woman like Deirdre is stripped of all decoration, then we see her true beauty, without distraction, and a barren spring morning becomes beautiful. More...

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The nude cube

These days, female beauty is a science. This age old mystery has at last been reduced by cash starved, publicity hungry modern university psychology and anthropology departments to something we can now easily understand, measure, quantify, perform comparative analysis on, and dismiss. If a woman is considered beautiful at all - a word which now has an almost superstitious stink to it - we know it is nothing but a genetic bias towards reproduction based on averaged facial measurements. The female body is nothing but a jumble of cubes, spheres, and other known and documented aesthetically pleasing shapes. Uh, yeah. And if you believe all that, then this nude gallery of Linda's beautiful form won't hold any fascination for you at all. More...

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Crimson Queen

We always liked those old etchings depicting the legendary Queen of Sheba, fully nude and adorned with only a few feathers and precious jewels, holding public court and receiving foreign dignitaries and sundry homage makers. The way she held her head high with pride, not only in her kingdom but in herself. Not a trace of shame in her own nudity, nor in her power to seduce her world. Sadly, today, being a queen in the ancient world seems the only way ANY woman can ever achieve full ownership and possession of her own body and her own beauty. Well that, and of course a photo session with Chris Ruegge. ;-) More...

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Good things happen with Nikkala Stott

On a grey day, when everything is dark and gloomy and storms are loomimg, there's nothing more comforting and cozy than a big old sweater. The familiar, safe, and reliable feelings we get from the things we love make everything okay. This is the same feeling we get from female beauty, and for the same reason. Female beauty reminds us that we human beings can be like gods and goddesses should we choose to fulfil our true potential. It reminds us that success and happiness are possible, and that is a very reassuring feeling. Unfortunately, the storms of life leave many of us torn and battered, but like an old sweater that never lets us down, the rare and comfortingly real beauty of Nikkala Stott is always there to remind us that good things happen too. More...

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Hospital refuses money from sale of Carla Bruni photo

April 14, 2008 - What's more important - helping care for sick children, or keeping the tradition of hating female beauty alive? Apparently a hospital in Cambodia thinks it's the latter.

Recently, this nude photo of former model Carla Bruni - who is now married to the president of France - was sold at auction for $91 000. The money was offered to Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital Association in Cambodia, but the doctor who runs the hospital turned it down.

"Accepting money obtained from exploitation of the female body would be perceived as an insult" Dr. Beat Richner said. "The idea behind this gift was to get publicity for the auction and the photographer. It was a way of using us."

The photographer, Michel Comte, has only agreed to sell the one image of her, and asked that proceeds be given to charity. The money will instead go to a Swiss charity working on clean drinking water solutions.

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Beauty harmony

Can a nude photo of a buxom and curvy woman be art? Of course. One of the classical elements of design is color harmony. For example, in this series of Peach we see a lovely harmony between her yellow hair, the gold cushions, and the magenta silk sheets. This is a perfect choice of colors for nude photography because yellow and magenta are also the colours that blend into the color of a nude woman's skin. Together they are lively happy colors, which also perfectly suit Peach's personality. So again we have an element of art - a theme - each element of the photo matching and supporting the others. And lastly there's the harmony of a nude woman being presented with as much care as possible, which harmonizes with our optimistic vision of how female beauty should be treated. Not only is there color, composition, a subject and theme, but there is also a 'message'. If not art, then what else is it? More...

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The middle of nowhere

One of the great things about beauty is that you can find it in the most unexpected places. For example, who knew that the Hubble space telescope would look farther into the heavens than anyone even had and see such lovely arrangements of gaseous nebulae? Or at the other end of the scale, that sub-atomic particles violently disintegrating into quarks would do so with the grace and elegance of figure skaters? It's the same with female beauty. The fashion world is full of great beauties who were discovered in small towns all around the world, many from countries that haven't even heard of women's fashion. And then there's the Ukraine. Famous for...well...nothing. Yet, this country produces the most beautiful nude models in the world. Our very own Britney is proof of that. The middle of nowhere? No such thing when it comes to beauty. Beauty, it seems, is everywhere. More...

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Help stop the Canadian Seal Hunt, in honor of Anna Nicole

March 31, 2008 - Back in April 2005, Anna Nicole Smith called on Prime Minister Paul Martin to "stop the bloody seal slaughter", and asked her fans to do so as well.

PETA posted her message on their website: "The fur industry says that it is killing more seals because of an increase in demand for fur - all fur. Anyone who buys a mink or a fox fur coat or a jacket trimmed in fur bears the responsibility for creating an environment of demand for the furs of these baby seals - who are often skinned while they are still conscious. Please, join me in getting active to stop the bloody seal kill."

PETA has posted a renewed effort to stop the seal hunt, in Anna Nicole's memory. Please check it out.

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The new Body in Mind book: Super Beauties

Body in Mind is pleased to announce the imminent release of our very first book. We can't tell you too much just yet, but we can tell you it's called "Super Beauties". Keep an eye on our site for the announcement of its release. We thought we'd use this promo gallery of Britney to let you know since she is featured in the book, along with most of your other favourite Body in Mind models. As the creator of Body in Mind says, you won't find a bigger collection of super beauty in one place anywhere. We were sad to see the supermodels go out of style. So we kept looking for the same kind of super beauties to feature on our site. And we've never stopped. If you loved the super models and miss their kind of beauty, you're going to want this book. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, enjoy the super beauty of Britney in full bloom. More...

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The men's club

Men have been called 'dogs' and 'perverts' and 'pigs' for generations, all because they get excited about beautiful women. But men aren't animals. In fact, their sexual reactions to beautiful women tend to be typically human and surprisingly sophisticated. For example, in hundreds of years of fine art painting and sculpting you'd be hard pressed to find any degrading depictions of women by men. A more modern example is the gentleman's club, a place where successful, rich men go to enjoy the finer things in life, including beautiful nude female hostesses. In the same way men have created the Folies Bergere, nude house-cleaning, and sexy golf-caddy services - all attempts to fit female beauty into resepctable parts of life. Of course, Body in Mind is also an example. More...

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Klaudia opens her door

As boys we men all would like to have seen the nude women we knew were on the other side of the door. Perhaps it was in the girls' shower in gym class, or your older sister's teen slumber party. But peeking through keyholes or frustrated curiosities are not what Body in Mind is about. We prefer to be grown up about it, and simply to ask a gorgeous lady like Klaudia to come out from behind her door and let us enjoy the sight of her completely nude. Happily, we find lots of amazing women like her who enjoy showing off and being admired, who show us we never had to feel guilty or hopeless, and how great it is to be all grown up now. In fact, beauties like Klaudia make adulthood way more fun than being a kid ever was. More...

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The edge of beauty

We like nude female beauty because it's on the edge, the edge of propriety, the edge of aesthetics, the edge of history, the edge of civilization itself. It's the extreme beauty of some women that have made nudity so acceptable in the modern world, and made women freer than they've ever been. Yet the mainstream now considers art to be art only up to the point where the beautiful woman takes her clothes off, and female beauty is often seen as a threat to women. We hate the mainstream. The edge is where everything truly free, alive and exciting happens. Alena knows it. In this set she magically transforms a simple camping trip, a canoe, a wooden dock, a simple riverbank in sunset into something wildly edgy and profoundly beautiful. More...

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Nude in real life

There are an infinite number of places to photograph a nude woman. So why do we so often see them on furniture such as chairs, couches, tables etc etc? We think it's because deep down as men we always want beautiful naked women in our lives, in our daily lives, in our real lives, not just on paper or on a computer screen. We like to see them photographed in homes, in cars, and in swimming pools for the same reason. It makes us feel more like we've achieved our dream: nude female beauty happily integrated into our lives. Do YOU have a chair or couch perfect for a nude woman to sit on? If not, maybe you should. We are quite happy to help you get a little closer to your own personal dream with our latest series of Linda by Chris Ruegge. More...

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Cave women

Women in caves. Something about them. From prehistoric neanderthals to Freud and his train tunnels, women keep getting paired in our imaginations and our mythologies with caves. We're not sure why nude women don't appear more in early cave paintings. That's what we would have drawn. Happily, we have the modern art of digital photography to capture the beauties that haunt our imaginations, like Deirdre. The female body is an elemental force, no doubt about that. Men in every age knew it, thought about it, painted it, and theorized about it. Every age that, is, except ours. Today the sentiments popular just about everywhere are that female beauty is an irrelevant superficiality and genetic relic. But not here at Body in Mind. To us, nothing could be more important and thought-provoking than the sight of a beautiful young woman nude, cradled in the rock solid curves of our beloved mother earth. More...

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Complaint against 'sexually suggestive' beer label gets thrown out

March 9, 2008 - This label, for Dorothy Goodbody's Wholesome Stout, was accused of being 'sexually suggestive' by the British watchdog group Alcohol Concern.

Brewers are banned from associating their product with sexual success, but according to the Portman Group, which regulates brewers, Wye Valley Brewery had not crossed the line into irresponsible marketing, and threw out the complaint.

Wye Valley claims that their brand was intended to be a 'light-hearted image capturing the spirit of of 1950's rural Herefordshire."

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The art of tease

Everyone wants to see Nikkala Stott naked. But Nikkala doesn't want to pose fully nude, at least not yet. And that's her right and privilege. She is the one and only owner of her body and it's hers to use as she pleases. Happily, she chooses to use it to please us as well. And it is our privilege to lay our eyes on her. But it is not our right. This is the mistake many people make these days. Many have lost their gratitude and awe for what women like Nikkala share, and instead of enjoying what she gives, they begin to resent women who don't take it all off. In some parts of the world they kill women for being sexual teases. But it's a testiment to our civilization that women like Nikkala have so much freedom that they can make it into an art. More...

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"Babe rage" incident calls attention to hatred of beauty

March 3, 2008 - Two Florida teenage girls say they were escorted off a Southwest Airlines flight because they were too pretty.

Nisreen Swedberg and Sarah Williams say that the flight crew was rude to them, refused them service, and accused them of causing a disturbance after another passenger yelled at them. They were escorted off the flight, questioned by the FBI, and banned from all future Southwest Airlines flights.

"I think they were just discriminating against us because we were young, decent-looking girls. Nobody else on the plane looked like us." said one of the women.

Whether there's any truth to their claim, or whether they're tying to gain the same publicity that Kyla Ebberts received from her run-in with Southwest Airlines, we're glad to see that finally the idea of 'babe rage' - prejudice and hatred openly directed at a beautiful woman just for being beautiful - is finally being acknowledged.

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Love bigger than an ocean

Imagine a world where a woman being nude was no big deal. Mothers didn't freak, preachers didn't preach, and sex fiends didn't attack. Then every day would be just a nice sunny day at the beach, with no worries and no thwarted expectations. A lady could be as nude - or not - as she wanted to be, and we, her trusted friends and admirers would bask in her beauty as we do in the breezes of summer. But to have such a world requires us to see female beauty as a glory of mankind, not a small shameful secret. We must respect a woman and have reverence for her beauty if we want to entice her out of her shell. And that will take a love of women, beauty, mankind, and ourselves, bigger than an ocean. We invite you to take a dip with us in that ocean, in this set of Marina sea side. More...

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Now that's an entrance

Some women really know how to make an entrance. Tracy is one of them. So we thought we'd put together a bunch of shots from the many different doorways she has posed in for us. Somehow her perfect bone structure and feminine proportions harmonize very well with various angular forms of architecture in building interiors. It's the ideal environment for such a curvaceous lady. Of course we much prefer her coming in than going out since she brightens any room just by entering it. But even when she leaves, the memory of her beauty is all that remains. More...

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Sports Illustrated meets Playboy

This picture looks like something from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Except of course that the girl (in this case Nadya) is completely nude. It's also like Playboy, except with an exceptionally high class of natural model, a non-sexual setting and pose, and a less campy kind of artfulness. Actually, it's more like Playboy and Sports Illustrated combined - big, bold, vivacious women, posing totally and confidently nude, pictured in perfectly stunning surroundings with exceptional skill in an adoring, artful, natural style. Playboy? No. SI? No. Must be Body in Mind. More...

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A very lucky chair

This is the old joke about what kind of chair a model poses on - a very lucky one. But we think there's an even luckier place to sit while enjoying this gallery of new BiM super beauty Petula, and that's in YOUR chair. Yes, you the Body in Mind member can simply sit and relax any time you like and let your eyes wander lovingly over every inch of this lovely woman, and many just as lovely, without having to do anything but blink once in a while. Considering how much effort most men go to to see a beautiful woman nude, we'd say that YOUR chair is the luckiest seat in the house! More...

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Lindsay Lohan recreates Marilyn Monroe's last nude photo shoot

February 20, 2008 - In an act of great courage or incredible hubris - we won't know which for a while yet, if the media is any indication - 21 year old star Lindsay Lohan has posed nude for photographer Bert Stern, recreating down to the letter his famous last-ever photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe.

Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Bel Air in California six weeks before her death in 1962. The images show a vulnerable 36-year-old who was still unmistakably one of the most beautiful women who's ever lived.

Now Lohan and Stern have recreated the images for New York magazine, with Lohan donning a blonde wig and black eye liner, along with the guazy fabrics reminiscent of those used in the original shoot.

While Lohan's beauty pales in comparison to that of Marilyn's, it's still charming to see a young woman pay homage to a great beauty of the past.

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Teacher allowed to keep teaching after 'nudity vs porn' lesson

February 18, 2008 - An Australian teacher who told his class of teenage boys to research pornography online has been allowed to keep teaching, and has even won a promotion.

The teachers' watchdog organization dismissed a complaint about his assignment "Is nudity and pornography the same thing?" The teacher, Mark Heiberg, told the boys to use the internet to research the topic, and then asked them waht would constitute suitable viewing for an eight-year-old boy.

Heiberg defends his assignment by saying "I didn't mean look at pictures of pornography, it was to get a definition. I think it's appropriate that kids know the difference, because there's so much out there."

The class never got to complete the assignment, as it was removed from school computers as soon as the principal became aware of it. But at least the teacher kept his job, with the full support of his principal.

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London Underground bans image of nude Venus

February 14, 2008 - Only in this day and age could a 500 year old painting be considering 'sexual in nature' and potentially offensive. At least that's what the London Underground said this week when it banned this image from its train system.

The image, a nude Venus painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the 16th century, was part of an advertising campaign to highlight a forthcoming art show from the Royal Academy. But the Underground said it "breached guidelines against advertising with depict men, women or children in a sexual manner or display nude or semi-nude figures in an overtly sexual context".

Huh?

"It's impossible to see how this classic painting could possibly cause offense" a British politician said. "The decision is absolutely bonkers".

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2008 hits newsstands today

February 13, 2008 - SI favorite Marissa Miller graces the cover of this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2008, out on newsstands today.

Also featured are Bar Refaeli, Ana Beatriz Barros, Jessica White and Anne V, along with IRL driver Danica Patrick.

The issue was shot during a two-day shoot in the US Virgin Islands last October.

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Teacher 'traumatized' teenager by flashing breasts at him

February 11, 2008 - A 47-year old teacher in Sweden decided to retaliate against one of her teenage students who had filled her blackboard with profanity and sexual imagery - by flashing her boobs at him.

She has been fired from her job, and fined nearly $800 in 'damages for trauma to her victim'

The teacher denies there way anything sexual about her actions. "I just snapped. I was trying to get him to stop writing and drawing filth on the blackboard."

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Is this photo 'obscene'? Virginia Beach thinks so

Feb 9, 2008 - Police in Virginia Beach, VA cited the manager of an Abercrombie & Fitch store for "display of obscene materials that is open to juveniles" and confiscated the posters after complaints from customers.

The manager, if convicted, faces a fine of $2000 and as much as a year in jail. Police had to charge him because there was no legal way to cite the company.

The retailer is said to be preparing to 'pursue its legal rights vigorously'.

"The marketing images in question show less skin than you see any summer day at the beach. And certainly less than the plumber working on your kitchen sink." the company said in a statement.

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