…I should perhaps clarify – I’ve been using the terms ‘talented’, ‘gifted’ and ‘highly gifted’ to describe some of the kids I post about. It’s all a matter of degree. A talented kid is one who shows a special aptitude in a given area, but
The Cambridge Union debates are famous. Here is an excellent debate entitled: This house believes pornography does a good public service.… It features Anna Arrowsmith, an articulate female porn director speaking in the affirmative and Gail Dines for the negative.
Dr Brooke Magnanti is a forensic scientist and statistician. All rather dry stuff, except she is also a sex worker and the woman behind Belle de Jour (which has been made into a TV series, The Secret Diary of a Call Girl…).
She runs
More a landscape painter and portraitist, Max Libermann… nonetheless did some child nudes – of boy’s bathing. Why? Because, as I’ve mentioned before, it was common practice at the time and people forget that the bathing costume only came in vogue in the 20th century.
Georg Jahn was a German illustrator and etcher, and member of the Dresden secession.
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Came across this today; an Argentinian film about an intersexed character, XXY. I’m not sure how accurate the film is in portraying someone with Klinefelter’s… syndrome. At least, not in the physical sense. It got very good reviews and picked up a few awards.
Hermann Moest isn’t an expressionist, more of a throw back to the academic style. I include him because he evokes the idealism of German freikorporkultur….
I’ve just found out about this. A Billion Wicked Thoughts.
Before Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, the only researcher to systematically investigate sexual desires was Alfred Kinsey, who surveyed 18,000 middle-class Caucasians in the 1950s. But Ogas and Gaddam have studied the secret sexual …
A work in progress – and something completely different. A crime novel about cultural and generational clashes. A series of murders in the Melbourne art world. 
Greenfields Site.
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