Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Just One Small Detail Between Good and Bad

Throughout the ages, men and women have debated the differences between good and bad. Now, I'm not going to add to that worthwhile discussion. I'm just going to show how a small detail in a photo of a topless or nude lady standing in ring wearing boxing gloves can turn from potentially good into bad with just one detail. In the first two photos, we have attractive nude women wearing boxing gloves standing in a well-appointed ring with the appropriate detrius of the boxing world behind them. But what absolutely destroys any enjoyment we can get from these photos is that both ladies are wearing belly button rings with large dangling chains. Of course I know that these ladies aren't going to box or really fight. But part of the allure of a great foxy boxy (or wrestling, for that matter) photo is that we can imagine that they are going to do so. But there's no way to sustain this suspension of disbelief when you're staring at the three inch piece of jewelry on a lady's belly.
Below we have a well executed photo. I can tell you that it is entirely staged and that this lady was as involved in a boxing match as I am in high energy nuclear physics. But this young woman appears as if she is ready to fight, and is perhaps looking at her opponent sprawled out on the floor. There is nothing to suggest that she is not in the middle of a match (i.e., no jewelry) and has her hands up in a what appears to approximate a defensive position.




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