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Originally Posted by fango44
Strange choice of words there. I don't think this "exhibit" has anything to do with humiliation. Quite the opposite, actually. The way I read it, it's all about empowerment and pushing comfort zones, both Tasha's and the spectators'. I don't really see where humiliation comes into the equation, especially because it is Tasha's choice to do this.
Fango
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Being stark naked in front of everyone you know is obviously humiliating on a certain level, even if you make it happen yourself and even if you claim it's for "artistic" and "empowering" purposes. Even exhibitionists and flashers admit that the rush comes from an element of embarrassment and wrongness about the whole thing, otherwise it'd be no big deal.
Obviously, being stark naked in front of everyone IS a big deal to this woman, since she's the one making such a big deal about it and making it into some grand public exhibition for the whole world, including her family, to see. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cry for help on some level, the same as when women with long beautiful hair suddenly chop it all off during times of stress.
On some internal level she surely knows what she's done to herself, and that a certain degree of self-respect has been lost forever, no matter how noble or lofty a setting the self-exposure was done in. She's cute, and I'd hit it, but let's face it, she looks ridiculous.
She pretty much admits all this on her "artist's statement" page where she calls herself "flabby" and says her self-exhibitionism is all about "vulnerability". She also says, "It's hard! I am not comfortable without my defenses". In other words, she is indeed humiliating herself knowingly for the entire world to see.