Ujitawara tea fields and persimmons trees. Kyoto, Japan. homemadeideas.org

Diving platform, Königsberg, Boris Becker

“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood. If you nourished your sexual life with all the excitements and adventures which love injects into sensuality, you would be the most potent human being in the world. The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin

serge marshennikov (detail)

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rays of sunlight in the early morning forest

Scythian Tattoos Appreciation. I

Kurgan II of Pazyryk, Altai. Right upper arm of a Scythian men with tattoos showing animals and hybrid creatures. 5th century BCE.

Original skin (left) and outline (right).

Source: Under the Sign of the Golden Griffin. Royal Tombs of the Scythians (2007).

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national geographic  january  1976

Namita Sunil by Avani Rai for Grazia International Magazine November 2023

Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich