Often in these pages I have written of the male gaze. Particularly now in this 21^st century I have grown tired of all those videos and photographs of women wearing almost no clothing holding a wireless mike to their mouth while moving their lower extremities up and down and sideways. I am turned off by the videos of female volleyball players and gymnasts.

It would seem that I define that expression, “a man is not asold as he looks old but when he stops looking.”

In my oficina I have a complete filing cabinet with about 600 women that posed for me not wearing much or anything at all. I was called often by women who told me, “Alex I want some different photographs.” Different was the key word they used when they wanted to pose sans clothing.

All those women that posed differently eventually gave me an edge in my editorial portraiture in being able to pose clothed subjects and to make them look graceful and comfortable.

Because I have this 28inch wide Acer monitor now I luxuriate in choosing browse instead of open when I go to any of my files. The little pictures are across that monitor and I notice pictures I may have overlooked in the past.

Many would not pass that horrible Meta term – community standards. But then how does one explain the proliferation of all those pictures in social media of women opening their legs to show either that they are wearing underwear or not?

The two photographs here might pass muster that community standard. Why? They are of a woman who had had a double mastectomy. She told me how once when she went to a community pool and was wearing no top she was told to put something on. Is that a double standard that a man in a bathing suit can show nipples but a woman without them cannot show a bare chest?