(Source: patricialeesmith, via gorimbaud)
Adrianna Giotta by Helmut Newton, 1982
(via fernsandmoss)
1960s Lingerie illustrations
(Source: girliemagazine)
Man rayLee Miller
c. 1930I love how the shadows from the curtain and window look like shorts and stockings on her body.
If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in her studio, 1958
my hero
Starry Ecstasy by Alva Bernadine
