Most of the time we get caught up in our daily routines, just doing what we need to do, or what we like to do. Very busy people we are most o the time.
But sometimes it is also necessary for us to stop, to hold our activities, and to start thinking about why we are doing all of what we are doing. The end-of-year (which is right now, at least for our Western calendar) is such a time, to reflect internally how the year was, what went wrong, and what was right.
So this here will be a more "philosophical" post, in stark contrast to all my other previous posts here. But a recent message exchange with a friend on Flickr prompted me to write to her a long reply, probably too long. I kept blubbering, not thinking about what I was writing, but I felt somehow that I needed to say something, to write something. Later I realised that I should have probably kept all what I wrote for myself - she had not asked for an explanation of my "philosophy" (if there was one...). I have not yet gotten a response from her.
But then it became clear to me that I do have a few things to say - and best would be to write them down here, on this blog, for all to see, to read.
So I am trying now to explain why I am doing what I am doing. Why am I so interested in taking pictures of dolls, in their sexy poses, sexy dresses, sexy situations? I think I found an answer, and I am trying to explain it here.
First of all, what are all we humans striving for? It all starts at the very basic level, like for all species on this planet: we try to survive. So the very first priorities in our lives are to get something to drink and to eat. We cannot survive without drinking for more than 3 days, and without food we cannot survive longer than a few weeks. So this is the very first basic need: to get food and drink. Anything else in life is a direct consequence of trying to satisfy this top need: we get a job to earn money so that we can buy food. The more the job pays, the more food we can have, and the more secure our future is of having also then enough to eat. Related is there of course the need to have a place to live, either rented or owned. This again needs money, and we are trying to earn it through our daily work. That is also why we get an education: the more we know, the more skills we acquire, the more we will earn from our job, which again helps us securing food.
Considering this, we might think that everything else in life is optional: creating something towards the progress of humanity is nice, but not required. Enjoying art and culture is phantastic, but without it life could also go on, as long as we have enough to eat and drink. Naturally we need good health, so that we can enjoy life and also can keep earning our wages and income, so that we can continue to have food and drink. All we do is centred around satisfying that very basic need. If that need is fulfilled sufficiently and we earn more than we can spend, then we can afford all those other luxuries, such as culture, art, humanity. Naturally we need something for "our soul" so that we have happy lives, and there is of course a huge need. But I am ignoring this now, because I want here only to speak about the essential basic needs. Anything else above that can be considered optional.
But there is another primary basic need, besides getting food and drink: if we humans would only focus on that, we would die out within a generation. So we have it built-into our bodies and minds: the need for procreation. We humans come in two versions (I am here not counting those minorities who refuse to be placed into this binary scheme - because they too come only in too versions - just check the chromosomes: XX or XY. Anything else is imaginary.): as man or as woman. And there is a built-in desire in us to meet each other and to create children: this is our sex-drive. This is a fundamental drive which each of us has to various degrees. Those without it are doomed to die out. And this sex-drive is a really powerful force, on the same level as our drive to get food and drink. While the food-and-drink drive can be somewhat explained logically, because our body really needs this to survive, the sex-drive might easily be considered as "optional", because we can actually live our lives completely without any sex. There are people who are abstinent, and they seem to be OK - at least so it seems. There is, however, medical evidence that our bodies really need sex: a few years ago I read an article where a study has shown that people who have sex regularly, have a better immune system than those who never or very rarely have sex. Just the sexual activity alone improves the immune system, so those people are just in general more healthy. Interesting is that this study also shows what the optimum frequency of sex is: the people with the best immune system were those who had sex every other day. Meaning one day with sex, another without sex. Anything less frequent leads to a reduced immune system response. Now that is something that you readers might tell your partner!!! :) Not the usual once-per-week, as it is customary in our Western world as the standard practise - that is way too little! Interesting is also that those with daily sex, did have again a weakened immune system. So daily sex seems to be just a bit too much for us.
This shows that sex is important for our health. But we knew that instinctively already - because it really makes us feel good. And we all have our drive to have sex: we men are programmed to have sex as often as we have an opportunity, until we meet a woman who is able to "tie us down" just to have sex with her. This lasts until sex between the two is less frequently, because of children, household, daily routine. We men still have our sex drive, so we look elsewhere. Happens again and again.
Our basic food-and-drink drive pushes us to earn money for fulfilling that basic need. Our sex-drive goes in the same direction: it pushes us further. For us men: we try to earn more money so that we can impress more women. Getting status, power, surely makes us men more attractive. A women needs someone who can support her during pregnancy and early child-upbringing, before she again can devote more time to her career. So she will always look for a more potent man, whom she can rely upon. But once that basic need is satisfied, the women look for some other criteria in men: culture, sophistication, kindness. This is how sex-drive brings us men to do most of what we do beyond our basic food-and-drink search: we become literate, cultured, sophisticated. Is not needed for getting food-and-drink, but is needed for getting a woman. Much of the art works are created by men who want to impress women. Or who want to chew on their failed relationships and need some means to express their desperation by creating a painting or by composing apiece of music. That is beyond the commercial interest of art - it is why one becomes an artist: it is most often because a man has trouble with attracting women.
So this sex-drive is enormously powerful. It is also something that is beyond logic: the hunt for food-and-drink follows largely logical principles, but the hunt for a woman to be with is very illogical. Why does one fall in love? Why with this one woman and not with another one? It appears that we men fall very easily: the naked body of a woman is just something so irresistible. It is built-into us, that we men cannot control. And women have learned to use this our passion for their bodies: they are cleverly hiding it resp. emphasising and packaging it by specific clothing: lingerie, silk and nylon things, emphasizing their body shapes and highlighting its features. Legs in shiny stockings which emphasise the wonderful leg shape through that irresistible shading, tops with cleavage emphasizing their bust, skirts either extremely short, or long tight skirts with slits at the side, front or back. Shoes with high heels to place them into sexy posture, and to prevent them from running away from us men. There are so many variations of female attractive clothing, which keeps us focussed on them. Women also have a sex-drive of various degree: they fall for men whom they consider attractive. And those women who know men better, know how to attract them and keep them with their means of dressing and showing their bodies in the most favourable way to their chosen man.
And here comes now the obsession with those Phicen, TbLeague, JIAOU and other seamless dolls: they represent all that attracts us men to women. The dolls directly access our sex-drive by showing the most positive aspects of the female body, in many of their possible variations.
I am creating my pictures and photo stories with these dolls , because I want to show the power which these women, dolls, body shapes, sexy clothing have over us men: they lead us men to act irrationally, just by stimulating our sex drive. The men in my OneSixthuals doll universe are very one-dimensional: all they want is sex, as soon as they see a women. Almost like in the real world. And the women in my universe are often not even aware of their influence that they have on men: they do not realise how attractive they are. Almost like in the real world. So this is where my pictures are focussed: to capture the eternal beauty of women and of their attractiveness to us men. To tell little stories about the power of the sex-drive in us,
That was a long explanation for a simple fact: I like to look at sexy women.
I wish you all a happy New Year!
