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Bengal Fertility Rites generally apply to women and men are mere priests. A feisty young Bengali maiden however threatens to drag the bhadra lok Bengali male in a bout of sindurr smearing and he is seen here trying to avoid the advances of this beautiful young lady.
A Bengali woman celebrates 'Sindur Khela' -smearing of vermilion on Durga Puja's last day. They pray for long and happy married life. It is believed that 'Sindur khela' dates back about 400 years .
Sindur Khela was celebrated on 15th October and this was shot in Delhi in Chittaranjan Park. It is only married women who apply vermillion on each other after offering prayers to Durga. It is very rare to see vermillion being applied to a man :)
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Taken on October 14, 2013 at 12.37PM IST (edit)
Posted to Flickr October 16, 2013 at 1.24AM IST (edit)
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Camera Nikon D800
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Aperture f/3.2
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 200
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Flat pottery fertility figurine. The face is not carefully modelled as the artist's main concern was to emphasize the sexual parts of the body: the slight breasts and the large and heavily marked pubic area.
From at least the Badarian Period onwards, figurines of women, made of clay, wood, ivory, or stone were included among the funerary equipment. These were often highly stylized and generally emphasized one or more of the sexual characteristics. Until recently these figures were called erroneously "concubine figures" as they were thought to magically act as a sexual partner for the dead man. However, female fertility figures occur in burials of women as well as men. Accordingly, most Egyptologists believe now that the function of the female figurines within the tomb was to guarantee rebirth in the afterlife.
Terracotta
Luxor
New Kingdom
BAAM 1056
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
... further research could clarify whether women have evolved special adaptations to signal estrus through such cues—or whether the cues are “leaking” to sexually discriminating men as unselected side effects of cycle physiology. Distinguishing between estrous “signals” and “leaked cues” may be difficult in practice because estrous females (seeking extra-pair copulations with good-gene males) and extra-pair males (offering good genes) may have shared interests in female fertility signals being “conspiratorial whispers” that are accurate but inconspicuous (Pagel, 1994). In serially monogamous species such as ours, women's estrous signals may have evolved an extra degree of plausible deniability and tactical flexibility to maximize women's ability to attract high-quality extra-pair partners just before ovulation, while minimizing the primary partner's mate guarding and sexual jealousy. For these reasons, we suspect that human estrous cues are likely to be very flexible and stealthy—subtle behavioral signals that fly below the radar of conscious intention or perception, adaptively hugging the cost–benefit contours of opportunistic infidelity.
St. Margaret's Daughters Home (abandoned hospital/nursing home)
Bywater, New Orleans
fuji natura 1600
nikon FE / 105mm f/2.5
"In chaos, there is fertility."
Anaïs Nin
"All the most powerful emotions come from chaos - fear,anger,love - especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually, it falls apart."
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Analogica con la Balda Super Baldina ( 1955 ) a telemetro priva di esposimetro, obiettivo fisso Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar da 50 mm 2.8 f, kodak color plus 200 asa. Un fiume di spermatozoi mentre partecipa entusiasta al Fertility day, una foto bruttissima per un ' iniziativa di pessimo gusto che offende le donne e gli uomini che non possono avere figli e che mi ricorda la politica sull' incremento demografico della dittatura comunista di Ceaucescu in Romania e in qualche modo la tassa sul celibato fascista istituita il 13 febbraio 1927 in Italia concepita con lo stesso scopo, cambia l' ideologia ma le "teste" sono le stesse.
From at least the Badarian Period onwards, figurines of women, made of clay, wood, ivory, or stone were included among the funerary equipment. These were often highly stylized and generally emphasized one or more of the sexual characteristics. Until recently these figures were called erroneously "concubine figures" as they were thought to magically act as a sexual partner for the dead man. However, female fertility figures occur in burials of women as well as men. Accordingly, most Egyptologists believe now that the function of the female figurines within the tomb was to guarantee rebirth in the afterlife.
Terracotta
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Necropolis Gully Ancient Fertility
The only sound in the deep quiet of the crevice was the crunch of my boots on the debris-strewn ground. Towering stone walls, draped in vibrant green moss, rose on either side, making me feel like an intruder in a forgotten tomb. My matte-black suit, a product of a future this place could never have imagined, felt profane against the ancient rock.
Then I saw it: a weathered, silent figure standing in the path. It was a statue of a woman, carved from the same stone as the gully but shaped with clear intent. Moss crept up its base and clung to its form like a second skin. This impossible artifact, an architectural anomaly in this raw, natural fissure, stopped me. My steady, determined posture belied the storm of questions raging in my mind. The statue stared forward with blank, unseeing eyes, a silent witness to a history I had just stumbled into. My mission was to find my crew, but this place, this silent, stone woman, was a new, unexpected variable in an equation I couldn't begin to solve.
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ISO200 f/4 150mm -2ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex, finished off back in PhotoLab.
Cowra, NSW
I can't quite believe this, but a flickr bot rated this image unsafe within seconds of uploading it. Can anyone be triggered by a couple of battered mannequins? If they work at flickr, maybe.
A collection of fertility figurines made of pottery representing women illustrated in a non-realistic form based on highlighting the areas related to fertility in the body. Fertility figurines were usually found in tombs dating back to the age of Badari (5500-4000 BC) to ensure the new birth of the deceased.
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Work fields usually over the high lands of Costa Rica. Its fertility is make for the volcano origin.
A collection of fertility figurines made of pottery representing women illustrated in a non-realistic form based on highlighting the areas related to fertility in the body. Fertility figurines were usually found in tombs dating back to the age of Badari (5500-4000 BC) to ensure the new birth of the deceased.
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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Pentax 67, 45mm f4, Lee 0.6GND, Heliopan SH-PMC CPL,Fujifilm Provia 400X (RXP), self-developed with Fuji Hunt Chrome 6X 6-bath E6 processing kit, IT8 calibrated+wetmounted drumscan (through photomultiplier tubes - PMTs, not CCD nor CMOS)
sculpture, steel and wood
67x49x16 cm
Yuri Averin
Montresso art foundation
Photo by Christian Koopmans
Morocco 2018