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The Writing on the Wall: Fafi
When Fafi was eighteen, she started sneaking out of her parents’ home to make public art. Her work, which is cartoonish, features what her myspace page calls “powerful and active” images of girls. Fafi, now thirty-one, lives in France with her husband and children and travels the world to install her rogue pieces, which she [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Dr. Faustus, Girls Rock, Italian Vogue, Japanese, Le Sportsac, MTV, Marlowe, Mash, Pornography, Self Objectification, The Face, angel, anime, art, artist, devil, fafi, fashion, female, female artist, femininity, graffiti, identity, money, mural, nipple, objectification, power, public art, race, sex, sex goddess, sexuality, spray paint, standard of beauty, stereotype, vandalism, wardrobe malfunction.
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Reactions to Objectification in Japan
Rape culture in Japan is much more extreme than it is here in the States. There is a weaker taboo against ephebophilia, the “sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to pubescent adolescents,” which has resulted in a culture of so called “lollipop” or “Lolita” pornography of prepubescent girls, of [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under FRUiTS, Hideaki Anno, Japan, Japanese, Lolita, Love & Pop, Pornography, Sex Roles, Tokyo, adolescence, agency, enjo kosai, ephebophilia, fashion, fashion photography, film, fresh fruits, lollipop, objectification, photography, porn, prostitute, prostitution, punk, rape, sex, sexual preference, statutory rape, street fashion, subsidized dating, taboo, tentacle rape.
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