
Sometimes I like to look at vintage erotica. Of course the pictures really aren’t erotic, the photography isn’t very good, and the poses are silly by today’s standards. But they’re still fascinating to me.
Who were these women? Obviously they’re all dead now – unless they lived to be older than a hundred. But imagine how scandalous and shameful these pictures were at the turn of the last century – even in Europe. Were the women prostitutes? Unwed mothers in need of money? Drug addicts?
The most compelling parts of the images are the womens’ faces. Rarely do they look into the camera. Are they hiding their most vulnerable features – their eyes?
I hope many years after they posed, when they lived in old lady bodies, they again had a chance to see themselves in these pictures. By that time, the shame would be gone and they knew they would also die soon. And they would leave to this world forever – a beautiful image of themselves.
I hope that made them smile.

Vintage erotica: https://www.google.com/