Arinn Dembo a.k.a. "Shakti" - Knoxville, TN
(Student of Anthropology, Mother, Gamer, Photographer)
ABOUT ME:
My professional name is Arinn Dembo.
I’m currently a student of anthropology at the University of Tennessee.
I’m a mother of two, and have supported myself over the years by doing
a lot of creative things: writing
mainly. I’ve worked in the
computer gaming industry off and on for over ten years, and have been a gamer
for most of my adult life. I love
horror movies and all comics passionately, but especially EC and DC comics.
As a sideline, I also do some erotic
photography—mostly as part of my ongoing rebellion against a world that tells
me that only a REALLY small tiny margin of humanity is “sexy” or
“beautiful”.
WHY ARINN?
Why should I be considered a “Booty
Babe”?
Because I aspire to be.
It actually means something to me; I understand why it is important, why
being a Booty Babe is a life-affirming act of rebellion.
I took my first little stumbling steps
into the world on a pair of chubby legs. I
was raised in the heartland of America, where the ONLY thing to be, if you ever
wanted to be considered “beautiful”, was Skinny and Blonde ™.
There was no ideal of beauty in my world that I could “live up” to,
no way I could ever win: I was a soft, pale, curvy girl in a world where women were
supposed to be hard, tanned, and have any curves created only by surgery—never
by sandwiches.
Being an oblong girl, I learned the
lesson and tried to live by it. The
world told me I was just Not Worth Looking At. “Well,” I thought—“Ok!
I guess I will work on other things!”
I had lots of brains and talent to play with, so I put my booty away and
just went to work trying to be smart and funny instead. I guess I was kinda sad that I was “ugly” and all, but
there are other ways to get noticed and be a success in life, right?
Problem is…somehow, no matter how hard
society pushes Skinny and Blonde as the only possible ideal of beauty, a woman
like me cannot live long without finding out that there are rebels against that
whole “one beauty” idea. Some
people have a DIFFERENT idea of beauty—heck, some people think ALL people are
beautiful (crazy I know!) So I kept
running in to all these wonderful REAL men and REAL women who would say
“You’re beautiful - we want to see more of you!”
And eventually, over the years, they drew me out of my shell a little,
helped me face my phobia of showing a little skin or being photographed,
and…taught me to rebel against the machine.