Goodbye youth

Pedophilia // Barbie with two fingers, with ice

Mattel lost a lawsuit against artist Tom Forsyth. I already wrote about this case when it was just beginning. Will have to repeat. Well... My friend, photographer Olga Vinnikovetskaya, and I have been trying for a year to finish a project called "Children's Pornography" (the name should be understood by analogy with "children's literature", "children's food", children, but for children). I won't go into details, it has nothing to do with the case now; I will only say that the central figures of the photographs are Barbie and Ken. So today, after reading that The American Court of Appeals dismissed the claim of Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbies, against photographer Tom Forsyth, I felt much calmer.

My dear Bunny, they won't put us in jail. Forsyth has been photographing Barbie for years; all his works depict the image and likeness in which Pamela Anderson was made, naked, surrounded by household items and kitchen appliances: now she is in a juicer, then in the oven, baked with cheese, then she sits astride a mixer, then she dissolves, poached, in milk . Pictures, it must be said, are offensively monotonous; Barbie in a shaker differs so little from Barbie in a mixer that Barbie in a blender would be enough to give us the author's ideas.

Mattel demanded a ban on the distribution of Forsyth's work: he allegedly uses their trademark without any right - plus the sexual motif in his work "knocks down consumers of Barbie dolls." Forsyth talked about freedom of expression, about the artist's right to criticize the "material value society" and about modern culture that sexually abuses women this way and that. A glance at the pictures suggests that this is just three-dimensional sadistic hentai; the concept is a concept, but all the works look like a production of "One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom" for the little ones. It seems to me that the artist should immediately admit this. Concepts we all come up with much. Our Olga Barbie also has a concept, but in fact we just liked to dress little dolls in leather panties. (1)

Ephebophobia // Girlfriend of youth, sister

For any - you hear, for any! - promises in the world I would not agree to return to my teenage years, because in my understanding there is nothing more monstrous than those fears, that helplessness, that expectation of eternity. I don't know what I should make age with me so that I begin to remember my youth as golden. I don't have the imagination for such a nightmare.

The director and writer Catherine Breya, apparently, remembers herself well as a teenager, otherwise she would not have had enough imagination for such a nightmare. The author of the scandalous Romance presented last year at the Edinburgh Festival brought a new film to Edinburgh this year - A Ma Soeur, "Fat Girl" The premiere took place on the thirteenth. Two sisters (younger/fat twelve-year-old Anais and older/beautiful fifteen-year-old Elena), three weeks by the sea, one lover, zero hopes for the future.

Teen sex - Elena loses her virginity, sex with an observer - Anais follows lovers in her and Elena's dorm, mixed ages - Elena is seduced by an Italian student, forbidden sex - mother takes girls away home as soon as the mystery is solved, lonely sex - Anais is exploring her own body, hopeless sex - it is completely unclear how we all live with this. It seems that we were not deprived of anything, including full-frontal of both sexes and putting on a full-screen condom. With all this, however, something makes me suppose that the spectacle that awaits us will be no more erotic than watching crickets copulating. Even after the release Romance Breya has said that her films are "not about sex" but about how sex can "transform" a woman - and cannot transform a man. So this time we, I think, will not get erotica, but fear, pain, helplessness, loneliness, emotions, transformations, - in a word, "Alien-5" for those who are over thirty. (2)

I can't be silent // Angel pestle

The head of the Evangelical Academy in Munich recommends that Christians use the terms offered by the Swiss Dictionary of Sex (authored by Klaus Heer) when talking with their spouses about sexual problems. As an example: nipples (emphasis on "and") are proposed to be called "paradise berries". I think he is the Antichrist. I think he wants all Christians to die out altogether. (3)

Autoeroticism // Commissioner's body

Here, the green-haired Ananova informs us that a nude photography boom has begun in China. Not artistic, I mean, but amateurish; the sweet and sour taste of the newfound sexual freedom drives people to photo workshops, to undress in front of the camera of discouraged photographers who until now have specialized in provincial brides and frightened first-graders. The childish effect of permissiveness, when "eat as much cake as you want" ends in tears, vomiting, gastric lavage. Some photographers began to "tactfully refuse" the least attractive clients; touches the imaginary dialogue where the photographer says to the model: oh, no, no, I can't do you naked, I'm shy... (4)

Sources:

(1), (2), (3) Ananova.com

(4) The Scotsman