Bare Reality: 100 Women, Their Breasts, Their Stories

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Airbrushed breasts, belonging to models and actresses, not only create an unflattering comparison but present an unobtainable ideal.

Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I wanted to re-humanise women through honest photography, present our breasts as they really are and burst the “fantasy bubble” of the youthful, idealised and sexualised breasts presented by the media. Breasts are catalysts for discussing intimate aspects of women’s lives, such as growing up, sexuality, motherhood, breastfeeding, relationships, body image, health, cancer and ageing. From veteran to vicar, from porn addict to prostate cancer survivor, men from all walks of life share honest reflections about their bodies, sexuality, relationships, fatherhood, work and health in this pioneering and unique book.A hundred women have bared their breasts and their souls as part of a project to further understanding of how women really feel about their breasts, and how they really look. From Book 1: 100 women bravely share un-airbrushed photographs of their breasts alongside honest, courageous, powerful and humorous stories about their breasts and their lives. women bravely share un-airbrushed photographs of their breasts alongside honest, courageous, powerful and humorous stories about their breasts and their lives. The book has several similarities to the online '007 breast' site, which has been running for a number of years, and likewise presents un-retouched photos of women's beasts along with text commentary; this book though, provides a more professional presentation of that format, both in terms of the photography, and structured interviews. Just as Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories presented the un-airbrushed truth about breasts for women, Manhood: The Bare Reality shows us the spectrum of 'normal', revealing men's penises and bodies in all their diversity and glory, dispelling body image anxiety and myths.

I guess also that the nature of a project like this relies on volunteers with an interest in the subject, so may not get a full cross-section of women. By turning my lens on physical taboos, I catalyse a ground-breaking conversation into social taboos and offer a deeply personal perspective on our most private, painful and pleasurable stories. For the first time, 100 brave and beautiful women reveal their bodies and stories on their own terms, talking about how they feel about pleasure, sex, pain, trauma, birth, motherhood, menstruation, menopause, gender, sexuality and simply being a woman. They talk about their boobs but really, they are just an extension of these wonderful, warm and funny individuals.They are telling fascinating stories of their lives, prompted by an intimate encounter with an obviously talented and sensitive photographer who gives them the freedom to do so. It gave me insight into women's changing relationships with their own bodies, in particular - the transformative power of breastfeeding!