The belief that #nudity equals sexuality harms everyone. It encourages objectification, fuels #BodyAnxiety, & restricts #natural comfort. #Naturism breaks that link. It shows that a #naked #body can express relaxation, #environmental #awareness, joy in movement, or quiet reflection without any sexual charge. Separation of #nudity from eroticism gives space for genuine #Wellbeing. People feel whole when their bodies are not treated as objects of desire.

#Nude #Naked #NoClothes #ClothesFree

On empress #Elisabeth of #Austria, aka #Sissi, and her struggle with #anorexia and #BodyAnxiety:

“Empress Elisabeth And The Archives Of Anorexia” [2023], Los Angeles Review Of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/empress-elisabeth-and-the-archives-of-anorexia).

#History #Corsage #Beauty #Starvation #Fasting

Empress Elisabeth and the Archives of Anorexia | Los Angeles Review of Books

In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Meghan Racklin considers the life and imperfectly rendered image of Empress Elisabeth of Austria....

Los Angeles Review of Books