Articles by Joe Mosely

Sexy Comes in All Sizes

It all goes back to Rubens. You remember — Peter Paul Rubens. He was that Flemish/Baroque painter dude (from the 17th century, for all of you wannabe historians out there), who regularly paid homage to hourglass-figured chicks by giving ‘em immortality via, now legendary, paintings such as The Three Graces (magnificently depicting a trio of full-figured lassies having a little pow-wow—au naturale), Venus at the Mirror, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (which pretty much speaks for its racy self ), and The Triumph of the Virtue. Indeed, “Rubenesque” ultimately became a term to describe relatively bigger women—with plenty o’ curves! A term which we use to this day.