Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volume of his photographs that Robert Mapplethorpe published three years ago carried self-portraits on both front and back. There he was on one cover in a black leather jacket, sporting an updated biker haircut, with a cigarette dangling from his lips. It was the Mapplethorpe of whips and sexual appliances, the one who had careered into the art world in the late 1970s with images of homosexual sadomasochism. But on the back cover he offered a different version of himself, bare chested and slender, in pale makeup: the artist as breakable cherub, with a whiff of androgyny and maybe...
...Whitney retrospective, which runs through Oct. 23, is his first one-man show at a major American museum in years. And in December, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia will open a somewhat larger Mapplethorpe exhibition that will travel to Chicago, Boston and Washington. With the era of sexual extremity now closed, some of Mapplethorpe's pictures look even more loaded and unnerving than they once did. But the durable qualities of his work are also appearing in clearer relief...
...were affronting but memorable, and hard to pigeonhole. At first glance they were in the venerable photographic tradition of scenes brought back from exotic territory, like 19th century portraits of Indians in full headdress. But the people in them were not foreign to Mapplethorpe. They were his friends and sexual playmates. If this was documentary, it was from the inside looking...
Health-care professionals applaud the feminization of the condom, though they warn it is not 100% effective in preventing either pregnancy or sexual diseases. Declares Dr. David Grimes, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine: "Women's health is much too important to subcontract out to men." Still, cautions Dr. Eric Berger of the American Council on Science and Health in New York City, "if a condom is being touted as something that prevents AIDS transmission, its use alone is not enough...
...more women are not buying condoms for protection, some women are concerned that responsibility for contraception and disease prevention is increasingly falling to them alone. "Let men take their half of the responsibility," says Janet Weintraub, 30, a New York City lawyer. Even so, as the epidemic spread of sexual diseases continues, more and more women are acknowledging that the only certain way to know that protection will be available when desired is to provide it themselves. Says Lisa Baroni, a 20-year-old college student: "Better for a woman to have a condom in her hand than...