Monday, September 22, 2008

Naked In The Roses


I've been told by the author Richard Taylor that his book Naked In The Roses was inspired by Domai.com. Quite cool.
I haven't read it yet, but Mr. Taylor has been successful before both as a screenwriter and novelist, so it's probably good.

"I wanted to let you know about NAKED IN THE ROSES and how it was inspired by you and DOMAI, and also to say that I admire DOMAI very much. It lifts humanity and it portrays women as the flower of the human race, which of course they are.
"... about a fictional American with a website dedicated to tasteful nudes and the problems he runs into operating it in our often hypocritical and altogether too prim society.
"I find most sites dedicated to nudes to be unintentionally funny, or repugnant in some casual and meaningless way. I read in Shelley Winters' autobiography years ago that she thought she'd invented the lip pout so many women employ when photographed, thinking it sexy. (She also took credit for 'Shelley' as a female name, having borrowed it from the male poet.) What is wonderful about DOMAI's women is that they don't pout their lips, they don't pretend sexual arousal, they don't try to look like anything but what they are — beautiful young women at ease with themselves. They smile. Their personalities are expressed in both pose and countenance. Their humanity has not been cloaked in pretense and posturing. They are truly lovely and to click through the photos in DOMAI is to take a stroll through a field of multicolored flowers in their first hours of bloom. It is to be reminded that even as age burns us to dust, or some other quicker, even more outrageous fate may await us, there are always more flowers to bloom, more hope, more beauty."

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