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Marquardt Beauty Analysis of California - a company dedicated to researching human visual aesthetics for applications in the arts, medicine, dentistry, psychology and the fashion and cosmetics industries.
Wired for Faces - a summary of the findings of an April 2006 study, conducted by Dr Maximilian Riesenhuber's team, aiming to identify which areas of the brain are involved in face recognition and how they behave. The study is published in the journal Neuron.
Sexual Selection and the Biology of Beauty - a 1997 paper by Anders Pape Møller which looks at the the evidence for evolutionary advantages deriving from feminine beauty.
Sex, Guys and Cyberspace: Effects of Internet Pornography and Individual Differences on Men's Attitudes Toward Women - a research paper by Azy Barak, William A. Fisher, Sandra Belfry and Darryl R. Lashambe on the subject of measurable psychological effects of internet pornography (and thereby discussing the impact of sexually explicit visual imagery), published in the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, Vol. 11(1) 1999. In view of the subject matter, I should label this parental advisory, but this is a completely sober piece of academic literature.
A review by Sarah E. Hinlicky for the magazine First Things of Wendy Shalit's book "A Return to Modesty", which discusses issues related to visual representations of women.
The Hijab Shop, based in the UK, is an online specialist shop for Islamic headscarves for women. The website's Hijab articles section is particularly interesting.
Women in Islam - a public page from the !!!!Shiya Muslim MSN group
Fotos Search Stock Photography - Search over one million images from 90 publishers, including both rights protected and royalty free photos. The site offers for sale both digital images of aesthetic value (from a wide variety of subject categories) and other graphics of a more functional character, as well as stock visual and musical effects.
Trek Earth - Over 246,258 photos from around the world.
Muslim women and blog photos - an interesting posting from Koonj: the seagull, the blog of Shabana (a Pakistani woman living in America), on the subject of Muslim attitudes to women publicly displaying photos of themselves.
Alex Breure's Osama bin Laden gallery. This link is dedicated to the inhabitants of Islamabad, Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Mombasa, New York, Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London, Birmingham, Sharm el-Sheik and all other innocent people who have suffered at the hands of pseudo-Islamic terrorism.
It is possible, though I would hope unlikely, that you may deem some material linked to by this website to be unsuitable for young children. Basically, I assume that anyone using this website is allowed to do so because they are deemed to have a sensible and responsible attitude to any content they access. I promise not to be gratuitously offensive, since I have no wish to offend anyone, but in the event that I may include material of a potentially objectionable nature I make no apologies for doing so. I AM NOT YOUR BABY-SITTER.
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