Sex is a part of life, so is violence. Violent sex is named BDSM (Bondage Discipline and Sado-Masochism). The indelible impression violence has inflicted on our day to day life has been visually captured by famous photographer Steven Meisel in his 2006 photo-collection under the name “State of Emergency“.
Strongly erotic and inclining towards the obscene and painful at certain parts, this photoshoot for Vogue Italia has reached notoreity for its subtle but vivid references. An intriguing combination of pornography and sado-masochistic attitudes of 1984 type era, forces the mind to consider the power of power in our nimble lives. They are uncomfortable and arousing in equal measure because they reflect back to us our conflicted attitudes and unacknowledged libidinal complicities.
Eroticism is inseparable from violence and humiliation is more unacceptable than ever. The issue is not how ‘healthy’ sexuality can be purged of violence, but how the violence inherent to sexuality can be sublimated. Meisel’s photographs — which, we should remember, appear in a magazine the vast majority of whose readership is not ‘adolescent males’ but women — are ‘fantasy kits’ which offer just such sublimations, providing scenarios, role-play cues and potential fantasmatic identifications.
These photos force to remember a movie I glanced recently named Silip, in which a village full of sex-crazed people kill each other for well nothing other than sex. The continuous power struggle between the over-powering males and the feebler females is a subject of pertinent questioning in almost all feminine art. Especially the one on the right. All I can hear is rape, rape, rape in my mind. What forces the man to rape? Is it that he is incapable of finding love or incapable of controlling himself?
No rewards for guessing the nationality of the models,Russian. They are always extremely hot. I keep on hearing stories of Russian brides wanting to marry Indian males, because Indian males are better lovers.
State Of Emergency Editorial
Vogue Italia September 2006
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Model: Hilary Rhoda & Iselin Steiro
Credits: http://cyanatrendland.com/
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