
A
22-year-old student has taken the most bizarre approach to prove that
her body is something powerful, rather than just a se-xual object after
she posed apparently nu-de with blindfolds and earphones at the stair
case of her school.
Monika Rotsvold sat in her lewd state for about 45 minutes sometime
within the week in her bid to initiate a conversation about the
sexualisation of women’s bodies.
The degree student of Fine Arts in Texas University, San Marcos, made
the disturbing display on the campus steps outside the school.
According to KTSW, Rotsvold revealed how the piece of performance art
has earned her the name, ‘the naked chick’ on social media.
She said, “My body is beautiful, natural, this is what it’s supposed to be. I’m trying to take away it being a sex object.”
It was fun time for other students who flocked around her during the
nude protest, and made good use of their devices to grab some shots of
their colleague which they subsequently dispersed through various social
media.
The comments came in just as expected, mostly from male social media users who relished the shots.
Rotsvold further told how she had researched nudity laws on campus
before planning her performance, adding that a few people were so
offended, they actually removed her headphones to give their opinion,
telling her she was degrading herself.
She said, “The message I was trying to get across was that we shouldn’t
be seen as sexual objects,’ she told Cosmopolitan. ‘We’re beautiful and
we’re powerful, and people should just respect our bodies in that way.”
According to Rotsvold, the performance was also inspired by the ‘Never
Asking For It’ movement which holds that women are never asking to be
raped despite the way tey dressed and behaved.
The following day, Monika posted a message on Instagram thanking her
supporters. She wrote: ‘I just want to say thank you to all the kind
people out there for letting me spread the word through art.’
She also claimed that her performance has received a lot of positive feedback.
She said, “People have come to me on Facebook and written me messages
thanking me for making them aware that we’re not alone in this.”

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