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, sadomasochism and …

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. Rape should be a …

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, in Hustler, of a …

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 aforementioned …

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 Austin, in her acting …

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 Rape. …

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 images of …

Jeremy Lybarger on Barbara DeGenevieve’s polarizing photography, film, and pedagogy about sex, race, and class at SAIC

Sep 2, 2017 · I have already expressed my total disdain for rape —let alone rape by a partner, lover, friend, or acquaintance, a crime about as rare as petty theft—as a plot device granting a male …

In The Examination of the Herald, one figure looks rather a dotard with a skinny, very porn-poor penis; the other is a veritable Adonis-plus-Eros, with a member comically, horrifically enlarged to Exocet …