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For those of you who don't know, interpersonal objectification is where one person views another a just an object for their pleasure (and not a being with thoughts, needs and rights) while intrapersonal objectification is where a person only cares about how their body appeals to others and puts that before their own well being (leading to things like body dysmorphia, anorexia etc...). And some things can induce interpersonal objectification while alleviating intrapersonal objectification.

Take for instance body art

It may cause some people to objectify the subject because she's an attractive naked woman. But it would also alleviate intrapersonal objectification because when the woman sees this beautiful design painted on her body (that is often based on an image she described to express herself) her imperfections no longer seem that relevant and she learns to use her body as a means of self expression as opposed to what others think about it. What are your thoughts?

I go to a women's college and I'm an art major. In the art world you see a lot of naked people (life drawing classes, photography classes, art history classes, etc) but most of the time it is a stranger that you are seeing naked.

This past semester I was in a digital photography class. One classmate photographed herself naked for each project. Another classmate did the same for our second project. and then a third classmate photographed 3 different people naked (asked them to use paint to decorate their bodies and use their body as a canvas and make themselves pieces of art). Where do you find volunteers to pose naked for you? in the art department of course haha.

It was a little weird at first getting used to seeing your classmates naked & critiquing their projects haha. how many times do you get to say "the side of your left boob is too bright and you need to dodge that in some"? haha

anyways, some classmates were super comfortable photographing themselves, photographing others, or letting others photograph them and having their work displayed in the hallway for everyone to see... I was wondering how the GAG population felt.

I personally am not really comfortable with it but I admire others confidence in their bodies haha.