Every baby queen who ever played with Barbie dolls at some point pulled down Ken's drawers. Most felt a mix of giddiness and disappointment upon seeing Ken's sad, flesh colored, smooth emptiness. Something must go there, but what is it? What does it look like? Thanks to an enterprisingly erotic photographer, not only do we see what some hunky variations of Ken are packing, we see him smooching up other men as well!
The Flickr stream of a photog called no_goody presents anatomically enhanced Ken-style dolls primped and poised as if on real photoshoots. The set ups are wildly fun, as in this photo essay of a soldier who, while on patrol, runs into a naked wounded angel.
The photos sometimes look eerily real, with faces no more or less plastic that actual human models. The poses and lighting are exactly what you'd find in the pages of Playgirl, Freshman, Mandate and other long defunct mags. Perhaps no_goody's whole point here is the manufactured nature of pornography, the endless parade of doll-like perfected prettiness that attracts us and obsesses us, despite it being completely unreal and unattainable.
Or, maybe no_goody simply enjoys the kink of naked dolls getting sweetly romantic. We admit, we always wanted our Ken doll to have the goods, so anything that brings us closer to our childhood dream we'll take, no silly arty theoretical questions asked!
· no_goody's photostream (flickr.com)