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To break down taboos about female sexuality
This Photo Series Captures Women Before, During And After Orgasm
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Brittany Wong
HuffPostOctober 21, 2017
Here’s a photo series that’s anything but anticlimactic.
To break down taboos about female sexuality ― and celebrate the glory of the orgasm ― photographer Marcos Alberti teamed up with sex toy company Smile Makers for a very bold project: The esteemed photog captured women at four different stages of pleasure: before orgasm, while masturbating, during climax and after orgasm.
The portraits in “The O Project” are provocative, to say the least:
Woah. (Marcos Alberti)View photos
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The womens’ facial expressions are natural, relaxed― and a lot less exaggerated than what’s often portrayed in mainstream porn:
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That was intentional. Alberti told HuffPost that he hopes the photos normalize female masturbation and show what women really look like at the peak of pleasure. (Plus, given how elusive and misunderstood the female orgasm is, it’s refreshing to see women actually getting off.)
“I’m always happy to pick a taboo topic and turn it into a light and fun photo shoot, but I also want to start a conversation about female sexuality with this,” he said. “And I want women to know that what they see portrayed on television and the Internet is not always real.”
The sex toy company Alberti worked with said they wanted to "upend the social stigma around female sexuality." (Marcos Alberti)View photos
The sex toy company Alberti worked with said they wanted to "upend the social stigma around female sexuality." (Marcos Alberti)
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If the style of portraits looks familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen Alberti’s work before. The photographer was approached by Smile Makers for the project after his “3 Glasses Later” photo series, which captured people after one, two, and three glasses of wine, went viral last year.
Story Continues https://ph.news.yahoo.com/photo-series-captures-women-during-201717670.html “They wanted a project that would be powerful for women,” he said. “I saw that they were a sex product brand that really cared about empowering women. After the first call with them, I knew I wanted to do it.”
The headshots are fun and sexy, but also tastefully done. (Marcos Alberti)View photos
The headshots are fun and sexy, but also tastefully done. (Marcos Alberti)
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The sex-positive photo series features women of all ages and nationalities: Singapore, South Africa, China, Thailand, the U.S. and Russia are just some of the countries represented in the project.
See more of the series below, and scroll down for a behind-the-scenes look at how the photos were taken.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Angela Gui
Labour of love: a daughter's campaign to free her father
AFP News Laura MANNERING,AFP News 6 hours ago
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Two years after her bookseller father vanished into Chinese detention, Angela Gui refuses to give up her campaign to free him, despite growing concerns for her own safety.
Gui Minhai disappeared on October 17, 2015, one of five Hong Kong booksellers known for publishing gossipy titles about Chinese political leaders to go missing.
For the first 18 months, Angela barely slept. But the 23-year-old student has turned her campaign to release him into a kind of job, which she says is helping her to cope.
"My dad... wouldn't just be quiet if his own daughter ended up in that situation," Angela told AFP by phone from England, where she is about to start a PhD at Cambridge University.
"I thought: 'Well if he would do that for me, I will just do what he would do'".
She has had three brief phone calls from her father since his disappearance, all telling her that he is fine and she must not get involved with his case -- which she believes he did not say voluntarily.
Angela has refused to keep quiet and has regularly publicised Gui's plight, including addressing a United States congressional hearing on China's persecution of its critics.
Last week, Angela had the first news of her father in almost a year after the Swedish ambassador to China, Anna Lindstedt, was granted access to Gui.
Born in China and living in Hong Kong, Gui was also a Swedish citizen, having spent part of his life working there. Angela was brought up in Gothenburg.
In the meeting with Lindstedt, Gui said that he "feels good", Patric Nilsson, deputy director at the Swedish foreign ministry told AFP, adding the government was working actively on the case.
- 'Huge relief' -
"It was a huge relief to know not only was he alive, but he didn't look as bad as one might fear," says Angela, who was told her father had no visible signs of injury.
Lindstedt also told Angela that her father had spoken mostly about her in the 20-minute meeting.
"I was quite grateful that she told him I was doing really well, and for him not to worry," Angela says.
Gui, now 52, disappeared in 2015 while on holiday in Thailand and is being held at an undisclosed location in China.
In 2016, he appeared on Chinese television saying he had returned to take responsibility for his involvement in a fatal car accident years before in Zhejiang province, a confession roundly dismissed by rights campaigners.
An official in Zhejiang told AFP the case was still under investigation.
Angela says she has received no information on specific charges against him or how long he will be held.
Gui is the only one of the five booksellers still in detention.
His colleague Lam Wing-kee went missing in China and skipped bail on a return visit to Hong Kong to give an explosive account of his detention and interrogation.
Two other booksellers who went missing in China have been released. Angela believes they are under surveillance and unable to leave the mainland.
The fifth man, Lee Bo, disappeared in Hong Kong and resurfaced over the border, later insisting he had gone there of his own volition to help with an investigation.
Lee, who Angela said she knew well, was allowed to return to Hong Kong and has since maintained a low profile.
- Never forget -
Angela asked her father whether his book work was risky, but he said it was legal in Hong Kong and he was not worried. But she knows he never gave his address for mail, using a post office box instead.
Since his disappearance, Angela has become concerned for her own safety.
She says she was jumped by two Chinese men who took photos of her when she was attending a book fair in Germany.
She reported it to police in the UK and Sweden, who gave her numbers to call in an emergency and warned her not to travel to Asia.
She said she feels safe in England, but the restrictions are a reminder of a "sense of threat".
She still hopes her father will soon return home.
"Otherwise I'd feel pointless doing what I do," she said, adding she wants to hold a vigil outside the Chinese embassy in London on the anniversary of his disappearance next month.
"Something to show we haven't forgotten."
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John JONES 4 months ago I recently gave my dog a plain McDonald's burger patty and HE WOULD NOT EAT IT!!!! He eats everything else, so this was very strange. He also would not eat their scrambled eggs. I will never eat at McDonalds again. There is something in the food that we can't detect, but that a dog can, and avoids. Has anyone out there noticed the same ?
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