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. …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Like the pretty young rape victims whom such shows reveal as sexually active—thus getting what they deserve by forcing innocent men to attack them in self-defense—Madonna’s …