Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 3: Body Image
In this week's ramble I present some insights into the whole "media and body image" thing - just some things to think about. And a homework assignment too!
I have a bit more to say about to say about this, but I'll save it for a future episode 💋
Links to images mentioned in this audio
*music courtesy afrodrumming
Other audios in Under the Covers with Eve
- Episode 1 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 1: Sexiness
- Episode 2 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 2: Romance Novels (ie Sex Manuals)
- Episode 3 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 3: Body Image ←
- Episode 4 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 4: Visualizing The Love & Sex You Want
- Episode 5 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 5: The Renaissance of You
- Episode 6 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 6: You're Not a Virgin (You Just Think You Are)
- Episode 7 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 7: Sex in the Movies
- Episode 8 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 8: Introducing Her to Your Fantasies
- Episode 9 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 9: Depression
- Episode 10 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode10: Oblivious - Picking Up on Signals from Women
- Episode 11 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 11 : Alpha Male, Beta Male...How about Nu Male?
- Episode 12 Under the Covers with Eve: Episode 12 - The Tinder Dating Experiment
- Episode 13 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 13: Lurkers
- Episode 14 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 14: The Case for Making Erotic Audio
- Episode 16 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 16: (Don't)* Meet a Woman This Year
- Episode 17 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 17: Beauty
- Episode 18 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 18: Awaken Your Sexual Self
- Episode 19 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 19: Porn Addiction
- Episode 20 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 20: Meeting the Right Person
- Episode 21 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 21: There's No Playbook for Sex
- Episode 23 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 23: Aftersex
- Episode 25 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 25: Loneliness
- Episode 26 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 26: Movie Night
- Episode 27 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 27: The Sex Trade
- Episode 28 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 28: Refusing to Choose
- Episode 29 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 29: Sexy Isn't a Size (Feat. 17 Ladies from Gone Wild Audio)
- Episode 30 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 30: Preparing for the First Time
- Episode 31 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 31: Shyness
- Episode 32 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 32: Rejection
- Episode 33 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 33: Late Bloomers
- Episode 34 Under the Covers with Eve - Episode 34: The Male Gaze
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A Eve on 2016-04-03 13:56:56 (UTC)
Thank you! I am a photographer and I often shoot Playboy models - I can tell you, most of them you would pass on the street without a second glance. They look like very small, very skinny, very average women in real life, especially in their normal clothes and no makeup or styling. So you're spot on too :D
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Imzel on 2015-10-13 21:49:40 (UTC)
Dear Eve,
A friend of mine send me links to your 'rambles', as you call them. I listened to the first one, the second and now this one as well.
I love how you talk about these things, I love how you explain them. You make me feel at ease and assured.
Also your voice is like honey. But warm honey, cause it also gives me a fuzzy and warm feeling.
You are a wonderfull woman Eve, and I only know your voice! Haha kisses and huggles from a dutch female~-
A Eve on 2015-10-16 10:56:07 (UTC)
Thank you, that's so nice to hear! Thank your friend for me too ❤️
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MadWithLust on 2015-09-28 10:40:54 (UTC)
Good points as always! I never really thought about it in terms of population and in terms of the number of people that people meet or see.
And the homework assignment is interesting too! I've never really done a lot of people watching to it should be fun!
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A Eve on 2015-09-29 12:03:58 (UTC)
thanks MWL! Let me know what you find :D
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cuddle_with_me on 2015-09-28 00:45:56 (UTC)
I really enjoyed your explanation of what's going on. It really rings true and it doesn't require a big conspiracy, even if, to be sure, some parts of the fashion industry especially has truly lost its head.
And as you have said in the Porn Ask Eves previously, I think the tendency among porn, with some popular sites being particularly egregious, to only show rippling hulks with full body tattoos and tiny pixies certainly does its part. It's not that we can't tell that they're not regular people - it's that it's so far from regular people it's hard to even dial it back in your head. It becomes sex theater, with a lot of absurdity nearly everywhere you look... and in the absence of any sane, calm, realistic presentation of sex, it's so easy to categorize it just as something very distant from your own life.
Though I probably will need to remind myself, I will heed the advice to really notice how few regular people are built like Ironman champions. I tend to find almost everyone beautiful in some way, and maybe that backfires for me here.
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A Eve on 2015-09-29 12:04:44 (UTC)
No, it doesn't backfire, it's a nice thing to see all people as beautiful in some way. Just make sure you include yourself in that assessment 💋
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A Eve on 2015-09-29 12:05:05 (UTC)
thanks Joe! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Love your wrinkles, they're lines of experience!
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AusieJohn on 2016-04-03 00:51:26 (UTC)
Hi Eve,
I'm just chilling and listening to your excellent rambles. This one...Spot on again. I love nothing more when I'm sitting in a cafe, than to sit back with a cup of coffee and people watch, way better than flicking through emails etc. But more and more these days that's all you see people doing...unfortunately!
I read somewhere, that all super models were just ordinary people...But just made up with all the tricks of the trade to look Super! Stripped down...they are just plain people you wouldn't recognise in the every day situation...When people watching!😏