September 1, 2022
Welcome to Hidden Truth, Veiled Beauty! This is a port of my blog Truth & Beauty [NSFW] designed for more accessibility. Two major changes from the original blog are worth mentioning. First, I switched to a lighter theme to reduce eye strain. I have received complaints over the years about readers having difficulty reading white text over a dark background. I have not been unsympathetic to these complaints, but I have always felt that the darker theme more appropriately fit the atmosphere of my blog. But this adaptation project - which essentially disguises the intent and nature of my blog on a superficial level, seemed like the perfect opportunity to finally implement a more eye-friendly theme.
The other change I have implemented is to remove all images (the vast majority of which, on the original blog, featured explicit nudity and not infrequent sexual themes), in some cases replacing them with text descriptions where the content of the image is referred to in the writeup. While it could be argued that this largely defeats half of the purpose of my blog, which is to showcase my nude and erotic photography, I have done it to provide a format in which my writing can be enjoyed and appreciated by:
1) readers who are daring enough to venture into the unrated recesses of my mind, but nevertheless are sensitive to visual depictions of nudity and human sexuality, or who merely find the subject of my images unappealing (taste is subjective - I'm not judging here); as well as
2) readers who don't mind the images, but might want to read my blog in a location or situation (e.g., at work, or in public) where somebody else seeing those images could create a problem.
As an additional note, I'd like to mention that, as a proponent of free speech, I do not consider this a form of censorship as it is entirely voluntary, and the original posts with images included are still freely available at my original blog. Nobody is being prevented from seeing them; I am merely providing the alternative option to read my blog without images, for anyone who has use of such a resource.
Also, if you're reading this version of the blog, be assured that I don't think any less of you. When I create art, I tend not to want to censor my self-expression (which, I guess, balances how reserved I am normally). My art can seriously go from zero to sixty at the drop of a hat (and the rest of my clothes). I'm probably just as excited as you are at the prospect of giving people the opportunity to read my writing regardless of their comfort level with what much of the world would describe as "pornography". This is still going to be an intimate, at times awkward and embarrassing journey. Just not in a visually graphic sense.
