This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here.
Guest Photographer: Katy Weaver
Sex attracts us and distracts us. The mere mention of the word can swivel heads. No matter what we do, we can’t seem to avoid it. Everyone thinks of sexuality a little differently too, so our opinions don’t always match up, and that makes everything a little more awkward.
But sexuality doesn’t have to be awkward.
It can be beautiful. It can be- surprisingly enough- sexy. It can be funny. It can be ironic. It can be personal or shared.
It was my goal in this photo essay to capture the feelings of sexuality in several different people to create a cohesive narrative that still had some character variety. To me, sexuality isn’t just sex. It’s how we make ourselves feel sexy. It’s how we get ready, how we look in the mirror, and how we feel when we are intimate with another person. It’s also the aftermath. It’s the detail-sharing phone calls we have with friends and the fights we have with lovers. It’s undeniable; sexuality encompasses a huge portion of everyone’s hidden personality.
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Photographer: Katy Weaver – Katy is a junior at Oregon State University, majoring in new media communications and minoring in fine arts. She has been pursuing photography and journalism for the past five years, and hopes to continue her career in the direction of advertising, editorial, and fashion photography. You can learn more about Katy and her work by looking at her official website or by contacting her through her Flickr.
Amazing photography, Katy. Love this!
Wow Katy, these are intense. Great imagery and composition, you really capture a huge part of the Gen Y sexual experience here. Wow.
Hey, I use the same birth control!
Beautiful, beautiful images–and very Millennial!
These are beautiful, beautiful beautiful.
This is what black and white photography was made for. GREAT images Katy!
This is great work. Thanks for sharing it.
I love the second one.
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well its true that a picture can paint a thousand words. the images sure is bring more meaning than a bunch of text as aspects of female sexuality that are being demystified by research.