Human Variation

My friend is doing a project called Human Variation, it’s a blog of people of all sizes, ages, shapes, races, etc. nekkid. Now it’s NOT porn but just a way to celebrate part of what makes us individual. Here is what the project is about.

The Human Variation project is an art blog designed to discover and celebrate the beauty inherent in diverse human bodies. The project is based on the simple premise that every body is beautiful by virtue of being human, and that every body has a basic aesthetic value that should be celebrated and appreciated.

Societies do not operate under this premise. Societies evolve over time with various ever-changing norms and standards of beauty. The Human Variation project doesn’t imply that social norms of beauty are bad per se, only that they are a subset of that which is beautiful. Nor are we suggesting that people who do happen to fit those norms, whether by accident or design, are any less beautiful than those who do not. What we celebrate on this blog is diversity itself, the myriad ways the human body can grow and develop, adapt and change, age and be modified.

By doing so, the Human Variation project hopes to achieve two goals.

First, it is our intention that our contributors simply feel good about themselves. We sincerely desire for people of all ages, shapes, sizes, genders, and races to feel as though they are worthy of pride in their appearance. Second, we wish that those who observe the contributions, particularly those whose views of human beauty have been rooted in the expectations of society, can be educated by and take pleasure in challenging the prevailing notions of whose bodies should be celebrated.

If you believe that this is a worthwhile mission to undertake, please consider contributing. It’s easy and anonymous, and you just might change something for the better in yourself or someone else.

18 U.S.C. 2257 Statement

All visual depictions displayed on this Web site are exempt from the provision of 18 U.S.C. section 2257 and 28 C.F.R. 75 because said visual depictions do not consist of depictions of “actual sexually explicit conduct” as specifically listed in 18 U.S.C section 2256 (2) (A) through (D), but are merely depictions of non-sexually explicit nudity. All persons that appear on this Web site were over the age of eighteen years at the time of the creation of such depictions.

Now anyone can contribute and if you want to not have your face included that can be arranged so consider participating :)

I put the link separate so the link would have to be C&P and not just moused over for the site preview due to the content of the page.

http://humanvariation.blogspot.com/2008/02/about-project.html

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