Description : "There is a war over childhood. Both commercial interests and moral conservatives want to control how kids are raised. But who’s actually listening to the kids?"
More evidence that the notion of ‘age appropriate’ clothing is a modern nonsense. These three painting are by Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni…. Is it age appropriate for such a young girl to be wearing a pierced earring and a pearl necklace? And what
This deserves a separate entry. Baby Metal are a manufactured ‘idol’ group. They perfectly demonstrate the way Japanese culture takes Western memes and reinterprets them. In this case Western Heavy Metal is combined with Asian pop, the girls are dressed in a style called Loli-Goth,…
My third novel is concerned with the clash of cultures, east vs west. With the decline of America and Europe, Australia is increasingly turning to Asia. As a result there has been a corresponding increase in Asian immigration and therefore an increase in the popularity…
I thought I might start adding some images that depict the change in children’s fashion. In my search for examples of the naked child in art I naturally come across many more images of children wearing period clothing. There is one site in particular that…
Some argue that the first novel was The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatan) …written by an 11th century Japanese noblewoman called Murasaki Shikibu. It has been praised as a book of great subtlety and psychological insight. Yet it is also porn. It was written as
Two seemingly innocent words have been nagging me this week. I didn’t think they were worth writing about, but now that their author has written a piece attacking Michelle Griffin… a few more pieces have fallen into place. The author of course, is Dr Emma
Great opinion piece in The Age by Michelle Griffin – Why teens should read raunchy novels and straight-up smut.
The trouble with much of the porn readily available is not that it’s explicit, or even that it’s brutal, but that it is reductive and …
Haven’t posted anything on music for a while… First Aid Kit… are a Swedish group made up of sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg. They started performing in their teens (when Johanna was 17 and Klara 14). And whilst the Anglophone world is in a moral
Prince Henry Lubomirski was called the most beautiful boy in Europe. I’ve already reproduced two portraits by two different female artists, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Angelica Kauffman. Another artist to depict his legendary beauty was Italian sculptor Antonio Canova…. I wonder what
The recent furor over Melinda’s threat to sue Jennifer Wilson has only served to turn the spotlight on just what it is Melinda believes. Unfortunately the debate has tended to focus on whether or not Melinda is a Christian. This is actually irrelevant, primarily because…
Ray is a Melbourne based writer. He has completed two novels and is currently going through the process of getting them published. Read his Biography
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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