12th
Oprah, Her Magic Mirror & ArtfulPussy
Alexa here. About seven years ago, I watched Oprah tell women to get out a mirror and examine themselves “down there”. I first examined myself at about 12 and knew what I looked like “down there”. Inquiring minds want to know.
Shortly after the Oprah show, I unintentionally launched an extraordinary journey into myself. In a moment of rage and anguish over devasting comments from a man I dated briefly, I picked up the camera and began photographing myself in an increasingly explicit manner.
I recommend this journey to Everywoman, now that I enjoy the fuits of my discovery.
I’ve always said that the photo journey began with my attempt to take smiling photos of Alexa. This is true, but clearly my unconscious mind was also at work. I was pissed and not admitting the full range of my intentions.
My study of smiling better in the bathroom mirror evolved explosively. Blessed with two very private terraces at the time, my digital journey became an increasingly erotic study of my own sensuality and body.
The clothes came off, leaving me dumbfounded over the sexual guilt and ambivalence housed in the mind and body of one seemingly-liberated woma
Alexa Cushing, PeonyBabe
