Nudity in Tarot.

[Ruby Jewel]

I don't think you have even read the OP. The op clearly is asking about nudity in tarot. It never even mentions about pornography. Pornography has been brought into the thread by your post.

Perhaps I felt it was implicated by the language being used.

 

[gregory]

OK - to get back on topic - I cannot see anything at all wrong in nudity in tarot as long as it isn't simply gratuitous and as long as it doesn't take over from tarot - leaving us with a deck that you can only use by remembering what the cards are "supposed" to mean. Take for instance the Power Animals, or one or two TV tribute decks, which are nothing more than photos of "famous" people.

I fully accept that decks with nudity may offend some people - both readers and sitters. Just as some other aspects of other decks offend me. I do not personally see these issues as in any way related to right or wrong - they are to me simply a matter of taste.

Wooden-eye is creating a deck that will probably (nay, almost certainly) include much nudity. Her knowledge of tarot is such that I feel sure it will be a highly effective deck. You have only to look at her Bonefire to see how good she is. She has said that for her the nudity feels necessary. I feel sure that the fig-leaves she wonders about would detract from her vision - which I for one would like to see as purely executed as possible. I would be sorry if she felt she had to create a bowdlerised version on the side.

I will buy it. I hope she feels able to get on with making that possible for me and others who feel the same way.

 

[G6]

For reading purposes, I think it would be great if someone did a deck with as wide a variety of nudity and sexuality as possible. Most decks of this sort are very binary/heterosexual/sexy lady type decks. I'd like to see obese people, disabled people, old people, transsexual people, etc., and every kind of sexuality/gender expression etc., This is the type of project that might benefit from a collab deck.

 

[Farzon]

I fully accept that decks with nudity may offend some people - both readers and sitters. Just as some other aspects of other decks offend me. I do not personally see these issues as in any way related to right or wrong - they are to me simply a matter of taste.

Exactly this, thank you.

For reading purposes, I think it would be great if someone did a deck with as wide a variety of nudity and sexuality as possible. Most decks of this sort are very binary/heterosexual/sexy lady type decks. I'd like to see obese people, disabled people, old people, transsexual people, etc., and every kind of sexuality/gender expression etc., This is the type of project that might benefit from a collab deck.

There actually is one in the making. Check over at Tarot Decks, there's a thread about the Numinous Tarot. It's not 100% to my liking but the creator really tries to incorporate androgynous figures all over the deck. Maybe this is something for you. [emoji4]

I can completely understand you (and others) with what you say about the representation of women. Especially in something spiritual life the Tarot, there should be a balance.

By the way, I think it's funny that the majority of naked figures in Tarot decks are women. Judging from this forum, most of us readers are either female or gay. [emoji16]

 

[foolMoon]

And while clothes do offer symbolism, you can put a naked person in a very elaborate symbolic hat and they are still essentially nude, Accessorize!

This is true. Some clothings and accessories in the tarot images actually used to cloud my concentration, because they were too over the top, out of fashion, unfamiliar and strange.

Human bodies are universally common and familiar to us inspite of cultural, historical and geographical differences no matter how far and remote they are, so they are better at inducing archetypal symbolism.