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anorexia and sex survey: pulling it all together

what’s the fascination of internet surfers with pictures of scantily clad or nude anorexic women? last december, i put together a survey to get some answers. this is part 4, the last instalment and summary of my report on the results. some numbers to start with by the time i closed the survey, 2,884 readers… Continue reading anorexia and sex survey: pulling it all together

anorexia and sex survey – part 3

okay, let’s move on to part 3 of the survey on anorexia and sex. we already talked about the “thrill” of looking at pictures of anorexic women that some people experience. we should also note, however, that there were quite a few responses that indicated concern and empathy. the word “sad” came up numerous times… Continue reading anorexia and sex survey – part 3

anorexia and sex survey: results, part 2

this is part 2 of my preliminary report on the “anorexia and sex” survey. i’m trying to figure out what internet surfers find so fascinating about looking at pictures of nude or scantily clad anorexic women. as i said earlier, this is not a scientific study. however, it could probably serve as an exploration for… Continue reading anorexia and sex survey: results, part 2

anorexia and sex survey: results are in

what’s the fascination with pictures of anorexic women? last december, i wondered aloud about that and put together a little survey. it was inspired by detecting that vastly more internet surfers google words like “anorexic nudes” than words that would indicate that anorexia is something that needs to be treated. not surprisingly, that post in… Continue reading anorexia and sex survey: results are in

anorexia and sex

 a while ago, i wrote a blog entry about what sorts of keywords people like to google in connection with anorexia. i was surprised to see that the vast majority of keyword demands were not for how to recover from anorexia but for things like “anorexic nudes”, “anorexic porn”, etc. and wouldn’t you know it,… Continue reading anorexia and sex

the mystery of anorexia blogs

today i thought i’d surf around for some blogs on anorexia. i was looking for active, relatively up-to-date blogs that would talk about the experience of living with or recovering from anorexia, or perhaps the experience of living with or caring about someone with anorexia. i thought it would be easy – it’s a well-known… Continue reading the mystery of anorexia blogs

anorexia and the naked body

yesterday, at a lovely meeting of the vancouver chapter of valley women’s network, i met laara atley, originally from finland, the land of saunas. we were talking about body image, plastic surgery and the like when laara made the very valid comment that people who were brought up in a culture where nakedness is normal… Continue reading anorexia and the naked body