[Totally NSFW] The Queen of Lady Parts | Monday Insta Illustrator

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Souls unable to mate

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Dec 1, 2015 at 6:43pm PST

Love, sex, heartache, hate, pain, and control are just a few of the issues illustrator Lauralee Benjamin explores through the nude drawings on her Instagram account. Benjamin's subjects are women tied up or in positions of domination, poised in a perfect pose or lost in the throes of ecstacy, rendered both in realistic detail and surreal shapes and colors to reclaim agency over the objectified female body.

"I have always been interested in the ways women harness and express their sexuality," Benjamin writes on her website. "I use images appropriated from pornography to hijack the patriarchal sentiments and flip them into feminist narratives. I hope that others, women in particular, can relate to the positive and negative emotions I'm trying to convey." This message is distilled in Benjamin's new book, Queen of Your Body Parts, released by Over the Edge Books. QOYBP is, "an illustrated reference guide of every emotion you've felt in a consumptive relationship—using only the bodies of nude women," and you can find it on Amazon.

Check out Benjamin's work in the Instagrams below.

Just wait… 

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Nov 14, 2015 at 10:18am PST

you remind me of myself.

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Jun 25, 2015 at 5:41pm PDT

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Nov 18, 2015 at 5:04pm PST

Losing it.

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Apr 26, 2015 at 6:46pm PDT

#ReFuckingPost Lolz IG, U mad women have hair on their vaginas? RNS til I DIE. 

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Dec 17, 2014 at 12:28pm PST

Dead from ur eyebrows down #tbt  buy it - society6.com/lauraleeb

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Feb 5, 2015 at 8:02am PST

Ur still down for the cause  #tbt

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Mar 19, 2015 at 8:41am PDT

I will not be managed. 

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Jan 26, 2016 at 7:43pm PST

Can I live?

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Aug 4, 2015 at 3:50pm PDT

Feeling nostalgic - "Self Portrait"

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Oct 20, 2015 at 1:05pm PDT

MIND FCK

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Aug 7, 2015 at 11:14am PDT

The answer is right here 

A photo posted by QUEEN OF YOUR BDY PARTS (@lauraleebenjamin) on Jul 12, 2015 at 7:30pm PDT

See more of Lauralee Benjamin's work on Instagram. Buy Queen of Your Body Parts here. Check out The Creators Project on Instagram for more cool art projects.

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