Project_ISM - erotic art & public nudity

PHILOMENA

ARTISTS STATEMENT

I dream about quitting my job and becoming a feminist pornographer - a pornographer with an activist agenda. I want to change and challenge the male gaze. Many men seem to appreciate real bodies - most of my lovers over the years, for example, have liked my body parts. My tits, which have hung low and flat, like pancakes, since age 13. My hips, which, like my tits, are covered in faint stretch marks from developing quickly in puberty. My legs, shapely with muscle and cellulite. My abs, four years after my 70-pound weight loss, are pads of soft loose skin over a tight core. My ass, round and jiggly, whether large or small. But many is not enough for me, because the words of lovers who have criticized my body, the rude words thousands of men have written all over the Internet about other women's bodies, the unrealistic expectations and desires of the male gaze, still offend me deeply. I would like to prescribe an attitude adjustment to every man (boy?) who has ever said anything negative about a healthy woman's natural body. I would like these men to change the way they see, instead of women changing the way they look. How about a surgical procedure for their brains and leaving our beautiful breasts uncut? I suppose a lot of women would be good candidates for gaze alteration, too. Well, as much as I like the idea of male brain surgery becoming more popular than breast implants, creating feminist porn is more doable and sex-positive, and so, I'm here - naked on ISM - getting paid for explicit images I've photographed, and contributing to its collection of natural, sexy, diverse, pornographic images created by the female gaze.

Media index

philomena 'pancakes'
01 Apr 09
Photos
ZIP - 60 images

philomena 'du_jour'
13 Oct 09
Photos - reload
ZIP - 41 images

philomena 'PencilTest'
10 Nov 10
Video

philomena '1girlparade'
08 Feb 12
Photos - reload
ZIP - 34 images

ARTIST PROFILE

birthplace: Sunny California.
currently living in: Cloudy Oregon.
occupation: Aspiring jazz vocalist, burlesque dancer and pornographer - day job = science!
age: 32
height: 5'4
weight: 125lbs
relationship status: Polyamorous and happily married.
starsign: Aquarius.
biggest passion in my life: Can't decide on just one.
I like to listen to: intimate, heartfelt and funny thoughts, worries and triumphs of friends and lovers.
I like to watch: twirling tassles, rope bondage suspensions, a lover undressing, showering, or shaving.
I like to smell: gardenias.
I like to taste: chocolate - female cliche, but true!
I like to feel: exhausted after sex, dance or exercise.
favourite part of my body: Clitoris!
favourite part of someone else's body: The parts that penetrate - phallus, fingers, fists, mind.
Why i shot myself: Sex-positive activism and ambition.
who I'd least like to see shoot themselves: No one... except... er... family members! Ick!
who I'd most like to see shoot themselves: Miss Indigo Blue.
my website/fav website: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/dickinson.html
Most outrageous thing I have done: This?
Bands I like: Diana Krall, Velvet Underground, Marvin Gaye and Patsy Cline are a few.
Books I like: The Story of O, Story of the Eye, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.
Films I like: The Piano, Life is Beautiful, Out of Africa.
other random stuff: Justice, peace, economic equality, bleeding hearts, writing, afternoon naps, breakdancing.

PHILOMENA