YouTube works in mysterious ways. It was only a week ago that a video on solar stills popped into my feed. I planned to use solar stills as a plot device for an forthcoming story World War She but as far as I remember, I hadn’t begun my research. Coincidence most likely.
This morning I received another gift from YouTube, a short study provocatively titled, Men are better artists than women. Without having contemplated that question before I was keen to hear this lady’s point of view. Her central argument is that despite changes in western society in recent decades there are no women of noted who have reached the heights of men in any art-form such as the likes of Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Mozart, Beethoven, Tolkien, Grimm, Bowie, Dylan etc, etc.
I listened with interest, lacking the knowledge to agree or critique her and was about to file this lady’s argument in the recesses of my mind when she raised a second more pertinent point. Despite the disparity in output, women do have critical role to play in the artistic process in the form of the muse.
A muse is a person, often a woman, who inspires an artist or creative individual, providing them with ideas and motivation for their work. The term originates from the ancient Greek goddesses of inspiration in literature, science, and the arts.
This is where I sat up and started to form my own ideas. As a reader and writer of erotic fiction, I know that regardless of the gender of the author, it is typically women, by and large, that are the subject of and protagonist in erotica and pornography. I have yet to fully form my own theory on why this might be but would hazard a guess to say that it revolves around nude physical female aesthetic, inherent vulnerability, and difficulty of achieving orgasm while having the ability to have multiple.
You can visit this young lady, who bares passing resemblance to the character Camilla from my stories, on her sites listed on her page and hear what she has to say for yourself. She has many more followers than I so she must be saying something interesting.
But what do you think?
New books to read this week
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