Sarah White wants to turn men on with music and it just might make them forget about porn. Under the name ONA Artist, the artist best known as the Naked Therapist, will be turning on listeners as they turn up the volume. With titles like "Boy Love So Good," "Open My Hips," and "It Takes Two (To Be a Girl)," the EP looks to be a celebration of the power and beauty of male desire for female performance.
White is also the author of the book "The Arousal Plan: A Daily Ten Week Program to Optimize Your Arousal and Achieve Your Goals."
White announced the first ever all-virtual music release party via Periscope for her inaugural EP, "Sex Rock," at 9 pm EST on February 24, 2016. The EP is by ONA Artist, and it is linked with her popular Instagram account, @OnaArtist.
The online-only release party will feature a live cam chat, a screening of five music videos to songs from the EP (some never before seen), a digital swag bag, and an after-party story on Snapchat.
"I see this as taking my pro-male arousal approach into a new and exciting direction. I've learned so much about men in five years of Naked Therapy, and this experience has informed my song style and lyrics," White explained on a recently published article entitled, "This Is Why I'm a Naked Rock Star."
In "This is Why I'm a Naked Rock Star,". White uses Spotify listener data and music history to hypothesize a gender difference between "sexually empowering" and "sexually arousing" musical performer/audience relationships.
Women get to be sexually aroused by male musicians (Elvis, the Beatles, Timberlake, Bruno Mars, etc.) and sexually empowered by female musicians (Madonna, Rihanna, Beyonce, Lana, etc.). On the other hand, while men can be sexually empowered by male musicians, it is not to the music industry that they turn for sexual arousal, but to the porn industry.
This would indicate that for a female performer to be ultimately sexually arousing for a man, she needs to take off her clothes. However, due to current music industry and cultural stigmas against female musicians going naked, there is no such sexually arousing relationship for men in music.
To remedy this bias, Ms. White is doing something similar to what she did with therapy: she's allowing and encouraging male arousal by becoming what she calls a "Female Elvis."
Not only is she releasing music as ONA, but she's offering naked photos and videos on her site, OnaGram.com, in tandem with her music. This will allow her male audience members to have the same level of sexual arousal in a musical relationship that female audiences are allowed to have with their male performers.
But as Ms. White points out, it's not all about men; it's also about supporting creative freedom for women: "I think it's time we address the prejudice against female artists using their naked sex appeal to its maximum economic and creative effectiveness.
Male performers can be supremely sexy to their female audiences by staying clothed, but women have to go farther, and rather than criticize and lament this fact and slut-shame any female performer who decides to go there, I say it's time we celebrate women who choose to artfully arouse men by getting naked."
White founded Naked Therapy in 2010. Naked Therapy "is an experience that combines elements from positive and person-centered talk therapy, experiential therapy, and creative play therapy, with the added component of the client and/or therapist getting naked to facilitate more honest and unique insights through the experience of arousal," according to her web site.
"In each Naked Therapy session, I seek to provide my clients with a comfortable, accepting, even fun environment wherein they can develop a sense of self that is empowering, an awareness of their feelings that is freeing, and an understanding of the conflicts that are holding them back from realizing their full potential. Just as dreams unlock the unconscious, arousal unlocks the hyper-conscious. Arousal may be emotional, physical, and/or intellectual."
