Me, I’m looking for primer
A Young Turk contemplates body paint while linking to this shot from Hefnerland:
As if actually wearing skimpy lingerie isn’t enough now we live in a society where women paint themselves to appear AS IF they are wearing skimpy lingerie. (To be fair, they don’t do the painting themselves; that job belongs to some job-lotto-winning sum’um’um’bitch.)
Since they’re not wearing clothes shouldn’t they be censored by the powers that censor? Or is it okay to see them and their glorious contours because their shapes aren’t flesh-colored? Are they wearing liquid clothing? I’ve seen body-painted chicks on plenty of other occasions and it’s never blurred out or blocked the way an actual naked person would be.
I believe it depends on the answer to this question: “Is someone going to stumble across this accidentally and scream ‘OMG they’re NEKKID!’?” If you have to look at it twice to see that it’s not actually clothing, I’d say it’s not exactly accidental.
And I suspect body paint that doesn’t imitate clothing, the sort of thing you might see at, say, Burning Man, won’t get the same sort of pass from the Official Frowner-Upon.
(Seen here. This link, at least, is safe for work.)
fillyjonk »
7 January 2009 · 6:22 pm
*blinks*
I must travel in very different circles from that chap. The only instance of body-paint-standing-in-for-clothes I can remember is some scandal several years ago over a magazine cover – Vanity Fair, I think? (One of those magazines that I deem “too hip/hipster-intellectual” for me).
Or perhaps, years back, a very young Goldie Hawn on Laugh-In, but as I remember she also had a bikini on.
I do hope the body paint is hypoallergenic. I would not like to contemplate some of the young lovelies getting contact dermatitis in the areas that lingerie would normally cover…
CGHill »
7 January 2009 · 6:42 pm
Ah, yes, the infamous Demi Moore cover, with painted-on pinstripes. Then again, V. F. gave away the game: says right on the cover, “Demi’s Birthday Suit.”
Tatyana »
7 January 2009 · 9:45 pm
Chaz, you’re in particularly good form, title-wise.
FJ, I suspect the paint is edible kind. Like for a cake decoration.
CGHill »
7 January 2009 · 9:57 pm
The edible stuff, I am told — obviously I don’t have any firsthand experience with this sort of thing — doesn’t hold up well under the lights.
Tatyana »
7 January 2009 · 10:12 pm
…or tongues…