Flame Pillar of Rizal

Time of Rizal: Filipinas' Body Parts that Sexually Attractive

It's pointed out the truth concept of sexuality between the past and the present by the well-known Filipino historian Ambeth R. Ocampo. During Rizal's time especially the 19th century, he concluded the Filipinas' body parts that are sexually attractive to the Filipino men aside from the eyes and hair. Female body parts were: bare arms, a good neck or nape, and tiny rosy feet.

Other concept of Ocampo was the Soledad Lacson-Locsin's unabridged English translation of Chapter 25 Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal. A lovely description of true Filipina. Describing the other favorite female body parts of Maria Clara by Rizal himself gleaned to this chapter:

"At last, Maria Clara emerged from the bath accompanied by her friends, fresh as rose opening its petals with the first dew, covered with sparks of fire from the early morning sun. Her first smile was for Crisostomo Ibarra, and the first cloud on her brow for Padre Salvi..." (Padre Salvi, although a priest, is an admirer of Maria Clara.)

"Their legs were up to the knees, the wide folds of their bathing skirts outlining the gracious curves of their thighs. Their hair hung loose and their arms were bare. They wore striped gay-colored blouses... Pale and motionless, the religious Actaeon (i.e. Maria Clara): his sunken eyes glistening at the sight of her beautifully molded white arms, the graceful neck ending in a suggestion of a bosom. The diminutive rosy feet playing in the water aroused strange sensations and feelings in his impoverished, starved being and made him dream of new visions in his fevered mind."

Think now and bring it up about modern Filipinas, our contemporary times. Indeed, Filipinas exposing their so called, "the body of glory." Not some, but many of them. What do you think the difference?

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