[ClikeX]

Go to any photography subreddit that's not already focused on nudity or sex. Any photo with naked women will get more upvotes than most other submissions. It can be an objectively bad photo, that doesn't really matter.

[elevatortrim]

Does not need to be naked, just a pretty woman.

For e.g. there's a trend where painters post a painting of them while standing next to it. I do not subscribe to any subreddits but as some of these become popular, they pop into my homepage. 9 out of 10 of these are painted by a pretty woman.

[archi42]

Wait until you learn that some people abuse this to funnel potential subscribers to their OF. And I don't mean the kind that's about the artwork they show off (which would usually be on Patreon these days, I guess?).

Most woman don't run an OF of course. And wether they do or don't, anyone should be free to socialize over their hobbies on the internet, and/or present their art work for other to appreciate (and get validation with hundreds or thousands of up votes). But those on the intersection that choose to run thinly disguised ads ruin it for me :(

[JohnBooty]

I feel as though my post didn't really connect. Let me give an example, sort of:

This stock image is roughly the level of thing I'm talking about, except even with women who are less obviously chesty:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/two-senior-black-fe...

It feels very UNsurprising to me that nudity, or revealing photos, would get more views. There's various ways we can feel about it. But "surprised" would, erm, certainly not be one of them for me!

However, I was still surprised that extremely tame photos of slightly curvy women would get relatively large numbers of views, in a world where most people can easily find all the lewd, nude, and explicit images and videos they want.

[etra0]

I can totally attest this.

I was an avid viewer of r/analog. I don't know if this was 'recent' or not, but every time someone post a naked picture, either good or not, it goes rapidly to Top posts.

Even though it used to had many comments like "This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman", the upvotes arrived anyway.

I think nowadays they mostly block the comments in those posts, but what used to be an inspiring subreddit that would pop from time to time in my feed, is not longer that interesting to me.

[dpark]

> “This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman”

My first instinct is to agree with this sentiment. There’s a lot of pretty mediocre photography that gets attention because “naked woman”.

At the same time, you could equally say “that landscape photo is not interesting if you take away the lake”. If you take away the interesting piece of a photo, yeah, it’s not interesting anymore. The fact is that people (but especially men) enjoy looking at naked and near-naked women. It’s a consistently compelling subject. It might be “easy” but it’s still compelling.

[rafabulsing]

I still find that one to be one of the better photography subreddits, but I do agree that that's been happening a bit too often lately.

(I'd also love recommendations of other good photography related subreddits, if you have any!)

[scotty79]

> "This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman", the upvotes arrived anyway.

Art is judged on feelings it invokes. Naked women invoke strong feelings in a lot of people.

[mattbettinson]

/r/analog used to be sooo good!