The body is more than just flesh and curve. It’s a cultural screen onto which we project a complicated tincture of ideas, fantasies, fears & desires; from idealizing notions of beauty and goodness to moralizing notions of purity and sin. I believe there’s an underlying pleasureless-ness to images being intellectualized via pop social values; something deeply puritanical takes away from the erotic effect. Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “… intellectual passion drives out sensuality.” How true. And, how sad. Nudes judged that way aren’t capable of inspiring surrender and therefore, beauty.