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How does the intimate relationship look for the elderly? There is no end to sex scenes and other steam content that is characterized by youth and insecure, but at a certain age, popular culture draws largely empty – or treat sex as a line.
Last year, the actress Marilyn Minter began changing this, as she gathered a group of men and women between the ages of 70 years or older in her studio in New York to display a lower side of sex and relationships. In exciting and colorful images, the elderly are stripped of underwear or summaries; They embrace, accept, and take care of each other at the heat of the moment. Photos attract our attention to challenging something that is still seen as taboo, and shows moments of fun and love.
“There is a lot of contempt for the elderly sex. Even one of the models that I worked with,” who wants to see all this? ”
“The whole thinking process was that we are pioneers,” it continued the sexual context without shame. “None of the elderly never released, and with any kind of elegance. This was my goal – to make them seem desirable.”
A handful of photos that followed in the New York Times, accompanied Explicit editing feature About the life of the elderly. The Minter is now publishing the entire series in the next book “Elder Sex”, and displays it in New York Gallery LGDR. Exhibition, Which opened in AprilIt is her first individual show in the city since the Procyin Museum “Pretty/Dirty” in 2016, and includes its five -year -old career, in addition to other new work bodies.
In “Elder Sex”, the minter used one of its distinctive aesthetics, which it explored in both paintings and realism: books with a jewel covered with sparkling bodies, which appear to appear through a cup of a mirror or a steam -presented window. But despite their credentials as one of the most important artists who break the borders today-and despite the stars, such as lady gaga and Lizo For her – Minter could not find enough real couples ready to participate.
“We wanted (including) all races, and all kinds of sex,” Menter explained. “We faced a lot of trouble in obtaining models. I am 74 years old. I asked all my friends-in the relationships between mixed race, in lesbian relations-and none of them do so.”
In the end, Minter threw actors with a few people who agreed. She paired together in her studio, photographed behind a frozen glass plate – a trick to achieve wet steam appearance without fighting the water vacuum. During their buds, Minter said that all its 89 -year -old models told her that she was still enjoying a regular and enjoyable sexual life. Their feelings matching the people who were interviewed in the article of the New York Times, who described the deepening of the intimate relationship with their partners later on life, as well as learning to move and appreciate their needs as their bodies.
Minter believes that there is a feeling of freedom to have sex later in life that can take time to reach some time.
“When you are young and have sex, this is more performance than it is when you are 80 years old,” she said. As an older person, “you are thinking,” this is me. Take it or leave it. I will just enjoy myself. I will not fly anything here. ”
Minter admits that sex and self-images are reserved for women of all ages-older women are rarely seen or taken seriously as they had intimate needs, while for younger women, the sexual agency is often walking-many of them, and you can be “installed and buying.”
“When she is 25 years old, there is a great fear that young women have a sexual agency – it’s terrifying for people,” she said.
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But the artist sees some progress in those who are seen as desirable on our TV screens, which reflects a broader shift in cultural situations about sex. She referred to pictures in People magazine that compares the characters of “The Golden Girls” and “Sex and the City”, who are of the same age at the time of the latter’s restarting on HBO Max (Mother CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery). “The 1950s looks very different in 2020s!” A comment chanted.
Although “The Golden Girls” is also turning into romance and intimacy-and has been widely displayed as significantly positive in its time-there is a blatant contrast in how women in the fifties are introduced through the two of the two shows.
She said, “I thought,” well, this is why it is different. “One: One: People live for a long time, and they are more healthy … No. Two: There is this thing called Viagra. To a house in Florida with three other women? What?”
It hopes that “elderly sex” will not serve as a visual reference that affects the need for what the intimate relationship can appear in the older ages, but rather will resonate with people who feel their desires-their life-to be overlooked.
She said, “It gives permission to people who feel shame of their sexual urgency.” “I want to give them this permission to explore this and erase shame.”
“The biggest sex“Posted by JBE Books, now available.