wow leave it to a few morons to take a humorous post and turn it into something political/social 
give me a break

Small fix, Unimpressed said 80 hours, not 40.

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Love this. The poses look absurd because it is absurd to treat a human body as some delicious treat to be posed as provocatively as possible, like advertisers working hard to make a photograph of a hamburger look delicious. It’s gross and disrespectful to do it to women and equally wrong to do it to men. In my opinion.”
Whats absurd is that you have to get political about this.  Like it or not the human body is a sex object, it is why we haven’t died out.  If the body didn’t matter women would choose to dress in formless clothing and fashion would accentuate nothing, and even if it did it would be arbitrary rather than focus on sexual characteristics.  What is absurd is not acknowledging men and women have different sexual brains, the old feminist spiel trying to beat men over the head for not being women is obsolete thinking, the more we learn about the brain the more that type of blank slate nonsense is debunked.  If women found men posing like this to be sexy, it would be done, and men would get paid handsomely for it..but they don’t, and it isn’t about respect or anything like that, but just a different appetite in sexuality.  Gay men also are more visual and are more interested in pornographic images and such, are they being “disrespectful” to men?  So what is it? Is your position logically homophobic as well?

Why should be be natural?  Is the only pose that is acceptable neutral or totally overtly sexual, aka day to day reality.

You are reading too much into it, vulnerability is acceptable in women because men accept it.  You should be asking yourself why women don’t like such pictures of men…because they don’t want to take care of a man, they want to be taken care of, they want a man with higher salary/education than themselves and the rest.  So how can you want that without the other side of the hat, that men will accept a woman that is “lower” than themselves by your own standard.  If men only had the dream of marrying women who earned more and were more educated than themselves where would we be?

In the world we live in today the general public does have access to art and literature. More than ever, thanks to technology and the advancement of common sense. The people that don’t know about art and literature choose not to. Education isn’t just limited to the ‘elite’ anymore, it is for everybody and anybody that wants to learn. Now, please get off of your computer and take a look at the world around you. You see it? Good. Now go outside and learn something that will better yourself and won’t make you sound like a complete imbecile.

I think they are kinda sexy.

People only think it looks “silly or gay” because that is how society has labelled it.  Society has deemed that these type of poses are for women only, and why should that be?  Everyone preaches equality, but if that’s the case, then men and women should be able to stand, sit, pose, etc, however the heck they want.

I personally think it looks terrific.

Well that is just blank slate thinking, it just doesn’t work.There is a reason men will pay money to see flesh and why women won’t.  You can make plenty of money selling pictures of boobs..look at hefner, and you will go broke trying to sell picture of cocks to anyone other than gay men.   You don’t flood each gender with different chemical/hormones from birth and think you are going to end up with identical creatures.  There is equality of opportunity which is fine, mindless equality where you assume everything is 50/50 down the line is just that..mindless.  Such poses do not suit men as it doesn’t appeal to women, or else it would have been popular long ago.