Figure studies are a traditional mainstay of art and the photos of Bill Dobbins have focused attention on the aesthetic, artistic and erotic qualities of the bodies of female bodybuilders, fitness and figure competitors, sexy hardbody muscles and other muscular women who have used weight training and diet to turn their bodies into beautiful pieces of erotic sculpture. Too many, sexy female muscle is a fetish, a sexual turn-on, a source of primary erotic stimulation. But while art can be erotic and can use fetish as a subject source, it's aim is to make important and general observations about the nature of the world. Bill Dobbins sees women with muscles - from the world of female bodybuilding, fitness and figure competition and the growing ranks of sexy muscular fitness models - as what Pumping Iron author Charles Gaines called a "new archetype," a totally new revelation about the female body, the aesthetic and erotic potential of muscles on women, something "New Under The Sun." In that regard, the his nude photos are not just pictures of "naked women." They are intended to explore the sculptural and sensuous potential of this new kind of female body in both it's artistic and erotic qualities.