Actually, there are some really interesting concepts at work here, but I'll only briefly cover these. First, I'll tell you what Annie Sprinkle says about how easily women can be made into sex goddesses. Second, I discuss how women can choose to become luscious sex goddesses by understanding the factors which define sexual and physical beauty. Third, I'll discuss how physical beauty can be achieved through physical transformation. Finally, I'll discuss the special factors that a slut has going for her in attaining beauty.

ANNIE SPRINKEL'S COMMENTS ON MAKING A WOMAN A "SEX GODDESS."

The following material is excerpted from "Speaking the Unspeakable: Annie Sprinkle's 'Prostitute Performances'", a Master of Arts thesis written by Sheila Marie Thomas.

"I've always been fascinated by the dramatic transformation a model makes when she comes onto the set "a regular person" and is turned into a "sex goddess." All it takes is make-up, a garter belt and some high heels, a little change of attitude, and some decent photography. I personally experienced the transformation when photographers made me look more glamorous and sexy than I ever dreamed possible. It was wonderfully liberating and healing. It helped me get over lots of shyness and insecurity."

Sprinkle and Vera allowed women participants in the seminar to create their own porn-star look from Sprinkle's vast wardrobe, and completed the look by applying their heavy makeup and teasing their hair. Sprinkle then photographed the women under soft lighting against backgrounds such as satin pillows or leopard-skin sheets, and compared the results with an au natural photo taken when the women first arrived for the workshop (1991, 86-91). These contrasting photographs were used in the "Transformation Salon" or "Before/After" segments of Post Porn Modernist.

Sprinkle was reproached for promoting unrealistic standards of beauty at the Transformation Salon seminars. In her autobiography, she responds to such criticism:

"Feminists are always arguing that sex magazines should not glamorize women and make them look "perfect," because very few women can live up to that Playboy centerfold image. Thus, women are unsatisfied and insecure about their own bodies, and men are wondering why their lovers don't look like pin-ups. But as you can clearly see [in the Transformation Salon photos], even the pin-ups don't really look like pin-ups. So as a feminist myself, I say let's NOT STOP glamorizing women. Let's make them ALL look glamorous. Give all women a studio photography shooting with a good make-up artist. I do not judge whether the "before" or "after" photo makes [these women] look better. I think they are equally beautiful and sexy in both."

What this says, in short, is don't be contaminated by the illustions you see in magazines. Almost any woman be made to look far better than she thinks she is with the right apparel, makeup, setting, and photographer. Well, this is good to know, but if you are fairly pretty to begin with, it just means that it is much easier to look really gorgeous.

IMPROVING ON NATURE: CHOOSING TO BECOME A SEX GODDESS

I wrote the following short essay a few years ago. It is basically relevant, and so I slightly updated it and included it here.

Nature has made Woman beautiful, yet women are not content with the beauty that they have. In fact, one of the essences of feminine charm is that very deep seated desire to improve on Nature. Through their efforts over the ages, our women have created a vivid new Womanly Beauty that Nature could not.

Of course, here I should digress for a moment, because there are really two different models of Beauty. One is entirely natural -- the freshness of youth, the smooth texture and tautness of the skin, the fresh sweet smell of youth, the vitality, lust and passion which come from high energy and surging hormones. Sadly, this just cannot last long. This discussion looks at the second model of Beauty. In this model, a woman does not try to make herself look just as though she did as a youth, rather, she has an artificial model of Beauty to use to guide her in becomimg a Venus.

In pursuing this ideal to become a Venus, a woman must cast timidity aside and seek daring patterns of bodily beauty that owe little or no allegiance to Nature. Indeed, she must resolutely turn her back on Nature, and become an imaginative creative artist with her body. What components are there to this imaginative recreation? Here are some examples, but this is not an exclusive list:

• How a woman holds herself and walks is important. When she is wearing highheels she has an attractive, delicately unstable, carefully balanced walk. There is a definite fascination with the thin, narrow spike heel, especially by many men.

• The highheels also contribute to making her leg longer and more shapely.

• Her long legs are made much more fascinating when she wears fine stockings in unusual shades and patterns.The classic seam up the back provides a focal point by which the eye can travel up the leg.

• As she moves or sits, she exposes a gap above the stocking top which is glimpsed under her short skirt or through her slit skirt. This exposes delicate, tender skin and induces a delectable feeling of simultaneous vulnerability and accessibility in the watcher.

• A woman serious about making herself a sex goddess will make the effort to gain a small waist. A small waist is captivating. It exaggerates her curves, presenting her bust to much greater effect, and leaves images of fragility and feelings of ³wanting to hold it.² This is one of the strongest visual aphrodisiacs possible. A tightly-laced corset produces this visual image and also provides her with a very strong and pleasurable feeling. In fact, women who master the corset actually to keep wearing it due to the wonderful feeling it gives them both normally, and during sex.

• A modern woman is lucky in that bra designs can present her breasts to emphasize their elevation, size, and the cleavage formed by both breasts and chest. Modern medical miracles can also easily turn her imperfections here into a precious gift.

• With her breasts exposed, a woman can make her nipples more visually prominent and enticing by coloring them with dye, although very few women choose to do this, since the technique is not commonly known.

• However, almost every woman colors her lips to make them look moist, luscious, and inviting.

• Likewise, a woman can speak volumes with dramatically emphasized eyes. Eye makeup can be made to fit a wide range of situations, however, she can become almost hypnotic with exotic eye makeup.

• A sex goddess knows that she is more than just an image. There are other senses she needs to use to weave her magic. The most powerful sense of all, in fact, is the sense of smell. So, our woman subtly scents the air around her with an intoxicating aroma of subtle perfumes mixed with her own scents. This is one of the more difficult tasks to master, however it is important, since smell completely bypasses the higher brain centers and so can have a strong yet subtle effect.

• Our sex goddess uses an incredible array of fabrics, textures, colors, and designs for ³decorating² herself -- but there is also the style of the clothes, how much skin they expose, and how cleverly they hide yet reveal parts of her anatomy.

  All the above defined the pinnacle of Womanly Beauty in the mid-1950s ‹ and most men still desire to possess a Venus like this even in the late-1990s. Since then, however, additional elements of Womanly Beauty have begun to emerge among our forward-looking goddess. Today our goddess employs beauty lessons which come from other ³primitive² cultures, and incorporates their powers to fascinate:

• Our goddess now adorns her very skin. Tattooing (permanent or "temporary skin coloring") adds new patterns of beauty to her body without in any way distorting its clean lines.

• The other very popular skin adornment our goddess uses now is piercing. Rings and bars can be strategically placed, so that when they are exposed -- usually in her intimate erotic areas -- they erotically charge her lover. Some choose to openly displaying multiple piercings, such as through the ears and the nose, which hints to those around her that there may be others secreted on her body. Thus, this is a most tantalizing mystery.

• Finally, our goddess must include the most important ingredient of all -- her pride and confidence in herself. No woman, however lovely her physical attributes, will be considered truly gorgeous unless she is animated by pride in herself and the knowledge that she is truly desirable. Our goddess knows this, but she also has a secret. She knows that she needs the intoxication which comes from looking into the eyes of her special coterie of intimate confidants. With their adoration and lust she gains a special pride and confidence with which she fuels her presence in the public world. The eyes of those around her now see her for what she is. She also knows that there are those who are uncomfortable with the intensity of her looks and what she represents (which is to say, being a slut) ‹ but she ignores them. Thus, her ³mirror² is not one that exists in Nature at all. Those who are around her and support her are her true mirror, and like a goddess she preens before them.

PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR BEAUTY.

These days any woman can have perfect breasts through the miracle of modern medicine. Many other physical inadequacies can be corrected easily and readily through safe and effective surgery. Although this should not be the first resort, it definitely does have a place in a woman's transformational repertoire.

With the emphasis on surgery, the lessons of body adaptation training have largely been forgotten. However, there is a movement to resurrect some of these for attaining beauty goals. For example, waist training can reshape you giving you a dramatically sexy and powerful figure. Foot training can be used to reshape your foot to accomodate ultrahigh heels. In short, these are extremely powerful tools for physical transformation which are readily available.

Something else which is important but not commonly known, is that recent medical knowledge, particularly that conveyed through the alternative healh venue, can help keep a woman at her peak for far longer than women could in the past. This includes special knowledge regarding weight loss and weight maintenance which can be used to keep you at your ideal weight for your lifetime. Furthermore, there are techniques for life extension which will be invaluable in maintaining your beauty as well as increasing your longevity. Thus, you can remain at your peak for far longer than the women around you. (I discuss some of this knowledge on the NewAgeQuest alternative health pages. (Note this link to there does NOT have a return to here or the DS lifestyle pages, so you have to use your browser's BACK button).

WHAT IS REAL BEAUTY FOR A SLUT?

What IS real beauty for a slut? Frankly, beauty is, as they say, "in the eye of the beholder." There are actually two important aspects to this. First, a woman -- even a slut -- cannot truly understand the visual importance of a sexy woman to a male. Males respond more powerfully to visual sexual stimulus because that is how they are biologically wired. Second, and perhaps even more important, men love to have their lust stimulated. Simply put, sluts -- quite apart from whether or not they are goddesses -- are beautiful because they arouse lust! Through the lens of lust, a woman's features become marvelously enhanced. Indeed, seeing a woman in the act of making love (by this I mean the act of seduction, foreplay, and even more intimate activities), she reaches even higher levels of beauty for the male.

The ordinary woman of today is inhibited in her quest for beauty by her upbringing as well as the anti-slut culture taught her by family and society and shared by her girlfriends. A slut, however, realizes that she stands apart, and she is willing to take the path of achieving beauty through a variety of ways, including consciously deciding to attain beauty through radical physical means as well as her sexuality. She also relishes the challenge of exploring her enhanced sexuality and femininity, and views this as part of her beauty.

A slut thus knows that she can attain the ideal of beauty through both her physical appearance (as all the above paragraphs have discussed)and by slutish behavior. Of course, a slut also emotionally thrives on expressing her sexuality. Thus, truly enjoying life as a slut can lead a slut to living the ideals of true feminine beauty. Isn't this approaching the ideals of spiritual sexuality we discuss elsewhere? Indeed. Beauty and spirituality both tend to become entertwined through her grounding in sexuality.

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