Yes?
No?
What if it was for a good cause?
Now, that’s got you thinking, hasn’t it?
Elisabetta Canalis, perhaps better known as the girlfriend of George Clooney (yes, that Elisabetta), is the latest celebrity to strip down to the skin for a good cause – in this case, for PETA.
Yes, we all know what PETA is. But honestly speaking, how many of you are aware of PETA mainly because they publish so many pictures of sexy naked women? Sexy, naked, FAMOUS women whom are hardly ever nude in front of a camera, no less?
Let’s face it, sex sells. Which is why photoshoots for good causes usually involve good-looking women in their birthday suits.
From promoting vegetarianism like Sophia Monk
to Victoria Beckham’s naked promotion for skin health
one of the most effective forms of advertising seems to be the one with the most shock value: nudity.
Honestly, there’s nothing new about the naked game. For centuries, artworks have featured nude people. Michelangelo’s David, for example.
And who can forget The Birth of Venus by Botticelli?
So let’s play a little game: Imagine if you were asked to pose, dressed only in your own skin (For a good cause, mind! Not at the request of an over-amorous member of the opposite sex!). Would you?
Don’t worry about not being as statuesque or as luxuriantly curvaceous as the people who grace the pictures above.
Like Fiona Falkiner here, of Biggest Loser fame, your nude posing could be to promote self-confidence and a positive body image for real women like ourselves and the ones we encounter everyday.
So, what do you think? Would you do it? And what would be a good enough cause?
