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What is it that makes an ordinary image sexy?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) June 10th, 2011

Many times, it is said a picture says a thousand words, but it do not say every word. As a visual nation, there is a lot said about what is racy, too sexy, obscene, etc. What does make an image sexy? I once read where someone said something to the affect, “I don’t know what obscenity is, but I know it when I see it.” If the image is not of a woman in a wet t-shirt or a nude woman caressing herself or something else quite blatant, what makes it sexy?
What about simple lips, some would say sexy while to others it is just lips.
Lips #1
Lip #2
Lips #3

Maybe a woman’s chest?
Can art be sexy and what would do so?
Art #1
Art #2
Art #3

Some, art photography, would that be sexy, and if so, why?

A simple photo of a gal in heels and a skirt, what is the sexy part of that? What you see, what the photo makes your mind think, where does the sexiness come from?

Sometimes just an ad with a message?

What takes an ordinary image or object and makes it sexy?

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