Everyday Erotic: Young Women Embrace Nudity in Pictures As Beautiful, Not Pornographic

Sometimes the pictures are worth a thousand words. My assistant freely posts sexy photos on her FFFFound blog. Dried flowers one day, nudity the next. Feanne posts photos that strike her mood, her aesthetic, what she wants to express at a particular moment. (Note that Feanne responds to this blog post here.)

In this case, I'll let Feanne's choice of five photos from her FFFFound photo blog speak for themselves. I have not influenced her decision about what to post. In fact, she does not know that I'm writing about her on "Sex Talk."

All over the Internet, young women are freely blending erotic photos with visuals from everyday life. Feanne and I haven't discussed the mindset behind the mix, although I will invite her to add her own addendum to this post.

My focus is the degree to which the Internet is changing our understanding of what is appropriate and controversial online. I'm intrigued with the fact that Feanne sees no contradiction in posting nudity next to fully-clothed, hi-collared women, preceding a nude girl holding a cat. (Feanne will also make room for a beautiful cat.)

This is a young woman who carefully cultivates her Internet brand. Feanne is among the savviest in this next generation of Millenials online. She's written html code since she was 12. Feanne comes from a "good family" in Manila and enjoys a superb relationship with her mother. My assistant is not a young woman living on the fringe of Internet society, or one rebelling from home and family. While Feanne holds strong values about life, business, family, and the role of women, she is not in revolt mode. 

Having shared her point of view on life generally, I underscore the fact that Feanne is a change agent, one at the center of a massive digital revolution on body imagery, reflecting a reality in which women are taking control of their own "brand" presentation.

Will future marketers and advertisers dictate how sexuality is branded to consumers? Based on the comfort level of this Millenial generation with erotica . . . I seriously doubt that American marketers will be in charge of branding sexuality to young women.

I chose these five photos in her exact sequence. There's no Anne editorializing at play here . . . merely my talented Feanne at work in her prolific posts to FFFFound.