"Call it the Madonna factor. The Calvin Klein quotient. The Demi Moore mentality. It is flesh and flesh is selling fashion...Some say that in this age of AIDS, advertisers are using idealized nudity as a way to sell sex without actually selling sex...And finally, the more cynical observers say the abundance of bare flesh is the last gasp of advertisers trying to give redundant products a new identity."
     --"Selling more than clothes: A little skin---a whole lot of attitude", Robin D. Givhan, The News & Observer, 3/12/93

"...the body is fragmented, cut up by the frame. In our society, only one convention of partial framing in visual images is generally regarded as an adequate substitute of bodily part for whole: this is the portrait. The face stands in for the person's whole being...an abstracted bodily part other than the face may be regarded as an expropriation of the subject's individuality. In consequence, the tendency of some pornographic photographs to isolate bits of bodies may be read as a gesture of dehumanisation."
     --The Power of the Image, Annette Kuhn, 1985