Model Sheila Marquez is a sensual water baby in ‘Cuerpo de Verano’, lensed by Alvaro Beamud Coretes for S Moda’s June 1st issue. Cristina Perez-Hernando styles the minimalist female body vision, which again reminds us just how different American fashion magazines are from those in Europe when the focus is the female body./ Hair and makeup by Paco Garrigues.

In America there is one and only one way to look at naked breasts: they are pornographic. Forget their critical function in nurturing the human race. Breasts are corrupting and so is the female body, if we’re discussing the situation frankly in this country.

In this respect, America is much more like the Middle East in our attitudes about female sexuality and female physicality. True, we’ve commercialized “sexy” in a totally desensitizing, flaw-fixing way for women, so sex is everywhere in American media and the world of advertising. But the ongoing shouts of vulgarity around any positive association with nudity remind me very much of the attitudes of the Arab world.

It is for this reason that Facebook condemns an art project of breast cancer survivors being body painted in life-affirming beauty but until last week, Facebook allowed limitless hate-groups against women and female nudity.

Thankfully, I spent years of my life in Europe, where attitudes about sensuality are much more positive and life-affirming. That the female body is beautiful and should be celebrated, not condemned, is a core value at AOC. Do I believe in discretion? Yes. Intimacy? Yes.

It’s just that if one must pick a side on this double-edged sword around female sensuality and nudity, I believe that the price women pay worldwide for patriarchal, sensual condemnation is too high. Those who condemn sensuality it are the most porn-obsessed here in America.

Conservatives buy way more pornography in America and Sunday is the best day of the week for business. Just remember that fact ladies, when you get yet another finger-wagging lecture about female immorality and the disgusting pleasures of flesh. ~ Anne