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The Unmodified Body - What Is It?
What is natural varies from culture to culture and also from practice to practice, because we are invoking different value judgments when we invoke this. So in the case of body building, natural is referring to masculinity and some kind of authentic masculinity. Natural hair is aphro textured hair that hasn't been straightened but may still have had all kinds of things done to it. In the contect of natural hair, naturalness, there is about a resistance to a racist aesthetic that says that hair has to be straight to be beautiful. That's the natural. You also talk about the normal body and the whole body. What i'm trying to do is find what i call proxy concepts for the idea