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Bikini International If we thought the bikini was dead, or even tired, we were wrong. In the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century the bikini is alive, well, and a mainstay. Nowhere more so than the Internet is it great advocator, with dozens of websites devoted to stars, starlets, models, and "attention whores." For every person feeling bad about the hordes of paparazzi documenting the antics of thousands of celebrities, there is another person, a press agent, attempting to make sure their celebrity gets digitally captured and distributed to the maximum number of websites. It's the old PR game, but with a new twist. Of the new crop of actresses, singers, models, and party girls one one can pick many to document the stasis--and change--in the bikini. Candidates are many and include singer Britney Spears, actress Lindsay Lohan, and professional celebrity Paris Hilton. Lohan, with full breasts and a very deep pelvis, is a favorite.. Besides bikinis, this new crop of media personalities must also be considered in a post-Pamela Anderson environment. And by this we mean an environment where not only taking off ones clothes, but also having sex on camera, is an intimacy that is shared with ones fans. More cunningly, it is an act which also involves a plausible deniability. Like the Anderson hardcore videos, the Paris Hilton hardcore video of the earlier part of decade purports to be a private tape, stolen or given to the press without the consent of its participants. True or not, this illicitness only adds to the passions of the voyeur. Closely related to the the voyeur videos of the era are a spat of celebrity flashings, lead by Britney Spears and echoed by Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan in 2006 in which the personalities are captured getting out of cards "commando"--that is, without wearing panties so that their bare (and obviously shaven) private parts are fully visible. Certainly in the past accidental exposures have been a part of the genre of celebrity, but these have been usually confined to breasts (e.g., Jayne Mansfield with Sophia Loren) , butts, and whale tails (exposures of the tops of tanga underwear). The "vagflash" phenomena, echoed by others as well, is an important sociological indicator because it expands exposures to the final frontier, the female sexual organs themselves. In terms of new silhouettes, few are to be found, unless you include the adhesive microkini sideless (WMA7CH). |
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