Images and subjects once the provenance of splatter films, exploitation flicks, and porn—gang rapes, bashings and slashings and blindings, hard-ons and vulvas, cannibalism, …

Aug 19, 2017 · Rape, broadly speaking, must still figure in antirape culture, so let it be represented in gratifying new ways. Let rape be rape as well as, at last, an honest metaphor. …

The realist version of sex-as-rape comes to us in Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981). Dworkin’s sexual veganism finds validation in some photographs, …

Jan 14, 2017 · Wang openly admits to loving rape porn in a painting bluntly titled Rape Porn, while observing the atrocities of violence against women and its societal foundations in the …

Among the many memorable characters in Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s satirical black-comedy cringe-porn series The Curse (2023–24), Native American artist Nizhonniya Luxi …

Mar 16, 2020 · The cause of rape is the beauty of the female body; rape is a reward bestowed on the beautiful; beauties are by definition fertile; to be honored is to serve male power as a seed …

That Gentileschi’s victory seems progressive today proves the centuries-long acceptance of rape culture, as Susan Brownmiller explained in her 1975 book, Against Our Will: Men, Women and …

In Sex with Strangers, 1986, Bacher exhibits a series of photographic images with accompanying texts, lifted from ’70s porn narratives thinly disguised as sociological texts. The black and white …

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Jan 7, 2025 · Works by photographer Sally Mann at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth have drawn the ire of local officials, who allege that they are harmful to children.