Sentences with phrase «sadomasochistic images»
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The images in question showed explicit acts of sadomasochistic gay sex — including shots of men with erect penises and a picture of Mapplethorpe himself with a bullwhip inserted into his anus.
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In 1988, Mapplethorpe's major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included sexually explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the arts and the definition of art itself.