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How did you go about finding participants, and was it hard? Were What We Can All Learn About Body Image From A Teenage Naturist to participate?
It took me about per year to locate all the girls. I had a matrix' of different types of girls I desired to locate, generally characterizing women in the united kingdom where I reside. Distinct ethnicities, sexualities, places, shapes and sizes, life experiences and livelihood. Some girls were happy to take part, but not everyone concurred. I only wanted women to participate if they were truly comfortable. It's quite something in our culture to bare your breasts, as well as personal stories about them. I have done a lot of asking around, and later on some social media call outs. The girls who had taken part were brilliant about evangelising for me. I 'd to go to a lap dancing club to ask lap dancers to take part. Locating a nun took a really very long time. Finally I gave up on finding a willing Catholic nun, but couldn't be happier that I found a Buddhist nun to take part. I adore her interview.
I'm interested if the Catholic nuns said it went against their religious beliefs?
Catholic nuns did not describe their reasons for not taking part, they merely said No'. I wish I knew!
I'm sure the anonymity part helped? Is that why you determined to make it anonymous? And I feel like the revealing of the breasts part would not be the challenging thing so much as the exposure and intimacy of sharing one's soul and story. However, many do regard their breasts as a "private component." Did you find that to be true?
Certainly, baring your soul can feel more exposing than baring your breasts. It was significant that engagement would be anonymous so that girls would feel comfortable and safe doing both. Some women had no qualms at all about getting their tops off in front of the camera. At the other end of the spectrum, one woman was really anxious because the only person who'd ever seen her breasts was her husband.
What were some of the reasons, or most common reason, these women decided to participate? Did they feel the must be heard, to get their stories out? Was it cathartic for them?
I believe we like telling stories and we like hearing other people's narratives. It's cathartic. I felt a two way healing process during some of the interviews.
Some of the girls who took part did have special reasons for taking part, including talking about their experience breastfeeding, or how they felt about the representation of girls in the media, or their body image, or about why they chose to have surgery, or about their experience of cancer. One girl who'd had breast cancer said this: 'I was keen to participate in this endeavor. as soon as I saw it, my immediate thought was, "it'll be one sided, there'll be all those perfect boobs, I need these mangled things to be in there." I needed there to be breasts with scars on.' Other girls only liked the sound of the concept once I explained it and didn't have particular messages or targets, they were merely open minded to the procedure.
We appear to live in a society that's obsessed with breasts. They're everywhere and used to sell anything and everything. And in the UK, people look to be much less strict about showing nipples. (You never see lady nipples in public in America unless they are on a woman.) Nevertheless, i9f women make an effort to breastfeed in public or be topfree like men, they are met with hostility and harassment. What would you make of that?
How did you go about finding participants, and was it hard? Were What We Can All Learn About Body Image From A Teenage Naturist to participate?
It took me about per year to locate all the girls. I had a matrix' of different types of girls I desired to locate, generally characterizing women in the united kingdom where I reside. Distinct ethnicities, sexualities, places, shapes and sizes, life experiences and livelihood. Some girls were happy to take part, but not everyone concurred. I only wanted women to participate if they were truly comfortable. It's quite something in our culture to bare your breasts, as well as personal stories about them. I have done a lot of asking around, and later on some social media call outs. The girls who had taken part were brilliant about evangelising for me. I 'd to go to a lap dancing club to ask lap dancers to take part. Locating a nun took a really very long time. Finally I gave up on finding a willing Catholic nun, but couldn't be happier that I found a Buddhist nun to take part. I adore her interview.
I'm interested if the Catholic nuns said it went against their religious beliefs?
Catholic nuns did not describe their reasons for not taking part, they merely said No'. I wish I knew!
I'm sure the anonymity part helped? Is that why you determined to make it anonymous? And I feel like the revealing of the breasts part would not be the challenging thing so much as the exposure and intimacy of sharing one's soul and story. However, many do regard their breasts as a "private component." Did you find that to be true?
Certainly, baring your soul can feel more exposing than baring your breasts. It was significant that engagement would be anonymous so that girls would feel comfortable and safe doing both. Some women had no qualms at all about getting their tops off in front of the camera. At the other end of the spectrum, one woman was really anxious because the only person who'd ever seen her breasts was her husband.
What were some of the reasons, or most common reason, these women decided to participate? Did they feel the must be heard, to get their stories out? Was it cathartic for them?
I believe we like telling stories and we like hearing other people's narratives. It's cathartic. I felt a two way healing process during some of the interviews.
Some of the girls who took part did have special reasons for taking part, including talking about their experience breastfeeding, or how they felt about the representation of girls in the media, or their body image, or about why they chose to have surgery, or about their experience of cancer. One girl who'd had breast cancer said this: 'I was keen to participate in this endeavor. as soon as I saw it, my immediate thought was, "it'll be one sided, there'll be all those perfect boobs, I need these mangled things to be in there." I needed there to be breasts with scars on.' Other girls only liked the sound of the concept once I explained it and didn't have particular messages or targets, they were merely open minded to the procedure.
We appear to live in a society that's obsessed with breasts. They're everywhere and used to sell anything and everything. And in the UK, people look to be much less strict about showing nipples. (You never see lady nipples in public in America unless they are on a woman.) Nevertheless, i9f women make an effort to breastfeed in public or be topfree like men, they are met with hostility and harassment. What would you make of that?
