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APOLOGY

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I realize that the sort of leggy cheesecake photography featured in this website will be frowned upon by some as vulgar, tasteless and worst of all, sexist. I want to explain my feelings about this matter. Growing up with older sisters during the fifties and sixties I lived through the birth and development of the so-called Women's Liberation movement. I felt during this time and still believe that it was a very unfair thing for women like my sisters to be denied opportunities that were open to men. I thought that they should have every chance to make something of themselves. “How foolish!” I thought “to deny half of the population a chance to advance themselves and by so doing benefit society”. There are probably women out there, I reasoned, who could find cures for diseases that have plagued the world or women who could make advances in the arts and sciences which could benefit present and future generations.

    I was born during the Truman administration and have seen many changes over time. We are well rid of the prejudices that prevailed in the mid-twentieth century and we have seen countless marvelous women rise above the limitations which formerly held their gender back. I applaud their many accomplishments and offer my full support of them for the future.

    No, I am not a misogynist, I am just a wistful old man who now looks back to a time which probably never really existed except in my own imagination. No, the women shown here are not painted dolls or frilly sex-objects. They are lovely graceful beings possessing a powerful femininity. They are beautiful goddesses who are to be admired, cherished and adored.

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