Naked Women and the Survival Instinct

If there were no men, would young women still want to take their clothes off in magazines?

The answer lies in the question; why do they do it? The answer in the overwhelming number of cases would be because they make a living out of it. They have a product to sell - attractive bodies and their apparent willingness to have sex with you.

Look at any porn film or girlie magazine spread. They're not just naked, they're seductive, inviting you with their eyes and their pout as much as their simple state of undress. But all that posturing is to appeal to men.

The proof in the pudding of why women take their clothes off is because in all but the tiniest number of cases, they're getting paid for it. Are there women who do it for the thrill of the tease or because they're simply as wanton as the pictures promise us? Undoubtedly. But in any of the professional media and a large part of the new media, women who undress are very well paid to do so, in either cash or the sort of publicity that drives their careers as actresses or models.

It's worth noting that women almost always say (or at least claim) that they loved the photo shoot because they like feeling sexy.

Would that have any currency for them if there was no opposite sex to appreciate it? What reason is there to be as attractive as possible other than to sexually attract the opposite sex? Both so there's an audience to appreciate your beauty and because their reaction makes us feel sexy, beautiful or vindicated in our efforts. We'd slop around all day in baggy clothes and ugg boots.

So when women take their clothes off for men's magazines, you might consider that sexist or one sided. Don't believe it for a moment – men respond visually to young, attractive females to impregnate with their offspring over that of their rivals. But women respond emotionally to financially secure protectors who will ensure their offsprings' survival. Naked girls in lad mags and filthy rich male movie stars with the world at their feet in gossip rags are the same expression of our desires reflected back at us.

So when a woman takes her clothes off for a magazine, that commercial transaction is the most basic expression of everything about us that keeps the opposite gender alive