Monday, June 25, 2007
The Willendorf Factor
We all know about the Venus of Willendorf back from art school, right? Well, a lot of you do. And, if you don't, I'll give you a heads up. The Venus of Willendorf is a really tiny little piece of art that was discovered in, well, Willendorf, wherever that is, somewhere in Bavaria. Anyhow, the significant thing about the Venus of Willendorf is that she has massive tits as well as a very big pronounced vagina. The theory goes that the artist was creating a fertility symbol and that he was focusing on these powerful and practical symbols of motherhood. So, I was just thinking what it is that we today focus on. We've totally messed with this original symbol. As a society, as far as female symbols go, we value thin young women. We still value sex but not so much motherhood. And I think of how we've placed so much attention on sex and how we constantly hungry for new stimulation. So, in come the girls in flip flops. As we navigate through our days, sex on the brain at a relentless pace, we place an incredibly high value of anything titilating. It's a dance played by the observer and the one in the role of object observed. We outright desire the stimulation. It doesn't matter if flip flops aren't especially practical footwear. It gives us a chance to see more skin, and more vulnerable highly sensitive skin. Hey, it's the Willendorf Factor as far as I'm concerned. If our primitive ancestors needed fertility images to console them, it makes perfect sense that we need to see and/or wear something ultra-sexy that get us deep inside to get through our crazy days.
Labels: a really bad foot fetish in a good way, feet, fertility, hyperreality, kinky sex, open toes, sex, symbols, toe sucking, Venus of Willendorf
