Caught between pornography and prudery, eroticism seems to be fading from the forefront of the Western scene. In real life, it's hard not to come across the pornographic codes used by the music and film industries, reality TV and the sensationalist media. But also, on the other hand, things that have shocked certain souls - puritan, hygienist, woke, far-right, far-left, far-center... - because they have, directly or indirectly, to do with sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
On Facebook and Instagram, for example, a photograph showing a nipple will be immediately deleted (experience made with the cover of this issue<\/a>, which makes it difficult for us to promote). An insulting word, on the other hand, will only be removed if a user reports it - and then only if a user reports it. Another example: the graphic novel Maus<\/em> by Art Spiegelman, a classic among didactic works dedicated to the Shoah, has been dismissed from a Tennessee school<\/a> at the start of this year, because it contains \u00abvulgar\u00bb words and \u00aba naked woman\u00bb. Note that the naked woman in question is the author's mother, whose body he drew in a bathtub to illustrate her suicide. We only see her once in the 296 pages, and in a very soft way (the crotch is not visible). This case invites us to think that an unhealthy relationship to sex (in this case, the organ) often conceals an unhealthy relationship to life, as well as to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n