{"id":1281,"date":"2008-06-03T04:41:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T09:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:50:18","slug":"fetishizing-viktoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/03\/fetishizing-viktoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetishizing Viktoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The images below are from a slide show to accompany the cover of a British magazine, Bizarre<\/a>. You can see the slide show and the article accompanying her cover here<\/a>. Thanks to Jason S.<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n

What makes Viktoria “bizarre”? Is it her amputated leg? Is it the fact that she has an amputated leg and is still incredibly sexy? Or is it that she has an amputated leg and still considers herself a sexual person?<\/p>\n

Is this empowering? And to who? Surely the disabled are desexualized in this country, so it’s nice to see that challenged even, I suppose, in a magazine about weirdos. And yet, I suspect her sexuality is acceptable, fetishizable, only because she conforms to expectations of feminine beauty. In the big scheme of things, does she reproduce the standard of beauty, unattainable for most women, that crushes women’s self-esteem and sense of self-worth? And will disabled women, most of whom (like most non-disabled women) could never dream of being so beautiful, actually look at her and be able to identify? Or will this just draw attention to another way in which they don’t match up?<\/p>\n

Also, are these images really about her<\/em> sexual-ness, her<\/em> desire? Or are they about how sexy she is, the extent to which she can inspire desire in others<\/em>? That is, is she just an object like any other pin-up girl? How are her images any different than those in mainstream pornography and men’s magazines? She speaks in the article about her own sexual curiosity and openness, but this is standard porn star talk and it’s very difficult to know whether it is genuine or performance. Would it matter if we knew?<\/p>\n

This photo shoot of Viktoria for Bizarre magazine actually seems incredibly ordinary to me.<\/p>\n

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The images below are from a slide show to accompany the cover of a British magazine, Bizarre. You can see the slide show and the article accompanying her cover here. Thanks to Jason S. for the link! What makes Viktoria “bizarre”? Is it her amputated leg? Is it the fact that she has an amputated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,345,55,2089,23698,1811,120],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-disability","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-intersectionality-gender-x-disability","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67810,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/67810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}