Ancient Art or Modern Lust

"A magazine shoot of Kim Kardashian naked has caused a sensation. It echoes classical depictions of the female form, but far from celebrating women, it panders to male fantasy, writes our chief art critic Waldemar Januszczak"......so ran the headline in yesterday's Sunday Times.

The article is very well written and at one point says."I reckon what we are witnessing here is a power struggle that is now being enacted in US culture — a buttock-grab — between the scrawny white Caucasian hindquarters, tucked neatly into some slacks from Saks, and the billowing, bulging buns sported and preferred by more recent arrivals to the American dream"...it mentions J-Lo amongst others. It  also refers to Freud's explanations about male sexual fantasies and traces butt fascination back to ancient times and cultures.

After five minutes reading and a further five trying to digest the article to make some sense of it, I gave up and told my husband about it hoping he'd read it and have something meaningful to say. He said he wasn't going to read it, no need, he said he had no interest in Ms Kardashian per se but he'd long since identified the importance of the female backside and predicted its rise to prominence and it didn't need any highfalutin article to over complicate it. There was a pause while I waited for his further enlightenment.

"It's there to be spanked, simple," he said, "the West has temporarily lost its way with politically correct feminist movements etc and asses have taken back stage but they're on their way back, you'll see, and spankings with them."

"Really, P, you're so knowledgeable," I said tongue in cheek, making a mental note to double check my jeans in the mirror later to make sure I was displaying prominently enough.

Have a good week.

Ronnie
xx