{"id":10580,"date":"2020-04-24T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:36:57","slug":"covid-in-the-nude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/24\/covid-in-the-nude\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID In The Nude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from DNYUZ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nude Selfie Is Now High Art<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

It has become an act of resilience in isolation, a way to seduce without touch.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cThe Broken Column,\u201d a self portrait. \/ Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before face-touching became potentially lethal, my friend Dave had a lot of lovers. Now he makes do with nude selfies. He doesn\u2019t even request them, he says. They appear as if by magic. \u201cI wake up and they are just there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI keep getting explicit photos from people I thought were just my friends,\u201d says Matthew, an artist in Providence, R.I. He adds, \u201cIt\u2019s nice to know they\u2019re thinking of me.\u201d<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the pandemic began, sex has changed: It\u2019s imagined, monogamous, Zoomed or Skyped. And nude selfies have become one symbol of resilience, a refusal to let social distancing render us sexless. Nude selfies are no longer foreplay, a whetting of a lover\u2019s appetite, but the whole meal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the debate about art versus pornography has never been settled, a case can be made that quarantine nude selfies are art. Some of us finally have time to make art, and this is the art we are making: carefully posed, cast in shadows, expertly filtered. These aren\u2019t garish below-the-belt shots under fluorescent lighting, a half-used roll of toilet paper in the background. They are solicited or spontaneous. They are gifts to partners in separate quarantines, friends who aren\u2019t exactly friends, unmet Hinge matches and exes. (Exes are popping up like Wack-a-Moles these days.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore the quarantine, I navigated under a \u2018nudes are for boyfriends\u2019 rule,\u201d says Zoe, a marketing assistant in Los Angeles. \u201cSomething special for someone I trust. But in times of loneliness I turn to serial dating and now that plays out via virtual connections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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