Mirror, Mirror In My Porn

Collecting antique hand mirrors, even if they don't have the looking glass, got me thinking not just about the joys of getting a freebie, but the connection between beauty and mirrors.

We don't just put pretty women on mirrors, we photograph them with mirrors.

Now I can understand when the mirror is so strategically placed that it allows for one single photo to show more than one angle, but we often pose nude babes with mirrors which either only the model can see in, or just as a prop.





I'm not sure what we are saying here... Is it that the hand mirror is a common item on the vanity and so it seems to speak to intimate settings? Or it is that the hand mirrors reflect our cultural questions of the connection between beauty and vanity?