Emma Quinlan and Bubbles, her Albino Burmese Python
Photo Credit: Lili Forberg

I don't know if it's all the fault of the Adam & Eve story but to me nothing makes a woman as alluring as when a snake is wrapped around her naked body.

The photo above of model Emma Quinlan and her pet snake was taken by Irish photographer Lili Forberg (originally a native of Tel Aviv) for the Irish weekend magazine Sunday World (see the magazine spread here).

Here's the story behind the photo of Quinlan and her snake:

Damien Mulley, 31 Aug 2007, Guest Photographer: Lili Forberg

This ... photograph, is one of my favourite photos ever, and definitely a shoot I will remember for the rest of my life. Model Emma Quinlan is a model with Assets, but also owns loads of snakes and performs with them in various places. So we decided to do a shoot with her snakes, which will also be used in InDublin magazine for a feature about her.

Emma arrived in my studio with 4 snakes (pictured is Bubbles) and a lizard. Two of the snakes were MASSIVE (around 5 stone each) and the other two were smaller ones. I helped her to bring her stuff up from the car and she handed me a handbag to take upstairs. There was a snake it [sic] it. Everywhere I looked there were snakes. It was crazy. They were all really cute though and so easy to work with. They would just wrap themselves around her.