Word: porn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Salle's most devout fans seem able to say what his pictures are about, for all their literary overtones. They are laden with sexual imagery ) -- Salle's work seems to owe a lot to a brief stint he did as a layout man for the porn magazine Stag in the mid-'70s -- but that imagery comes out as congealed, monotonous sleaze. Salle's nudes are mere signs for bimbos, not erotic presences, and their popularity may be linked to the cynicism of their sexual politics...
Except, it now seems, for colorization. Moreover, whenever bluenoses demand restraint against the porn and violence that are the staple of popular culture, they are met with "Who appointed you guardians of the public taste? Let the people decide. If they want junk, that's their prerogative. What did we fight two world wars for if not the right to buy Penthouse at the 7- Eleven?" But not, you see, for the right to rent a colored Casablanca...
...Plato, featuring Alcibiades and his willowy friends yearning like blessed damsels at the lucky philosopher in a landscape full of wisteria and white peacocks. Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century, marvels of the salon in their day, high-finance porn of the ripest sort: Cabanel's The Birth of Venus, Clesinger's notorious Woman Stung by a Serpent. "Certainly we have bad paintings," sniffs Director Cachin. "We have only the 'greatest' bad paintings...
...like his son, Owen has gone the route chosen by too many gay men of his generation: marriage, fatherhood, and anguished outings to gay porn theaters for furtive encounters in the seats. Twenty-seven years into his deception, the facade begins to crumble under the weight of his son's revelation...
Philip's homosexuality has been far easier than his father's. Blessedly born to a different generation, he has good friends, New York's gay nightlife, and for the moment, Eliot. But Philip hasn't escaped scar-free. His tortured, secretive adolescence, spent masturbating in the company of porn magazines and wishing his same-sex yearnings would pass, has left him unsure and dependent. He grasps his lover so tightly that the more worldly and self-assured Eliot eventually crumbles throught his fingers...