Articles by Laura Dodsworth

27Feb

Womanhood: Talking to Women about Their Vulvas Made Me Feel Angry for the First Time

Laura Dodsworth

anger, body, health, shame, society, trauma, women

Body

In her new book Womanhood, photographer Laura Dodsworth interviewed 100 women about the most private, both physical and emotion, facets of life as a woman. Here's why it made her angry
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08Jun

I Quit Porn and Rescued My Sex Life

Laura Dodsworth

love, men, porn, relationships, sex

Body

Laura Dodsworth's book Manhood: the Bare Reality tells, in their own words, what 100 individual men think about their penis. This is a 20-year old's story
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06Oct

Bare Reality: 100 Women and their Breasts

Laura Dodsworth

society, women

Body

There has been so much public debate about breasts recently, from Free the Nipple to No More Page 3, from breastfeeding selfies on Facebook to Rihanna on the red carpet. I think the time has never been better to hear how women really feel about their breasts, and to see how they really look.  I have always been fascinated by the dichotomy between women’s personal lives and how they are depicted by the media; between how we feel about breasts privately and how they are presented for public consumption. We see images of breasts everywhere in the media and yet...
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