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What does an elderly person have intimate relationship? There is no ending for sex scenes and other thriving content that feature young and undistorted tastes, but the pop culture of the past largely paints blanks, or treats sex as a punch.
Last year, the artist Marilyn Minter set out to change that, gathering a group of men and women aged 70 and older at her New York Studio to show less insights about sex and relationships. In erotic and colorful images, older people are stripped into underwear or underwear. They hug, kiss and caress in the passion of the present moment. These photos capture our attention, challenging something that is still considered taboo, showing playful, loving moments of pleasure.
“There is so much contempt for the gender of age. Even a model I worked with said, “Who wants to see all of this? Minter recalled during a video call with CNN.
“My whole thinking process is that we are pioneers,” she continued to unabashedly sexualize the environment. “No one kindly shot the old man with any grace. That was my goal – to make them look very ideal.”
A few images that followed were originally published in the New York Times magazine Frank editorial function About the sex life of the elderly. Minter now publishes the series in its fullest in the upcoming book Elder Sex and is on display at Gallery LGDR in New York. exhibition, Opened in Aprilthis is her first solo show in the city since her retrospective “Pretty/Dirty” at the Brooklyn Museum in 2016, and highlights from her fifty-year career and other new areas of work.
In “Gender for Older Gender,” Minter uses one of her iconic aesthetics, she has explored in high-reality paintings and photographs: the finish of jewel-like glittering corpses, which appear to be displayed through steamed mirrors or windows or glass on windows. But despite her qualifications being one of the most important and most important artists today, despite the stars Lady Gaga and Lizzo Posing for her – Minter couldn’t find enough real couples willing to participate.
“We want to (including) all races, all types of genders,” Minter explained. “We had a lot of trouble with models. I’m 74 years old. I asked all my friends – in a mixed race, in a lesbian relationship – none of them did it.”
Finally, the Minter actors and a few who agreed. She paired them in the studio and photographed them behind a bunch of frozen glass panels, a trick to achieve a humid, wet look without fighting the transient nature of water vapor. During the filming process, Minter said that all her models were 89 years old and they still had regular, pleasant sex. Their emotions match people interviewed by The New York Times magazine, which describes the intimacy with their partner later and learns to navigate and appreciate their needs as their bodies age.
Minter believes that there is a sense of freedom in life in the future, and for many people, it can take time to arrive.
“When you’re young and having sex, it’s a little more than it would be when you were 80,” she said. As an older person, “you’re thinking, this is me. Take it or leave it. I’m just going to be happy. I’m not fake anything here.”
Minter acknowledges that women of all ages are full of vibrant sexual imagery—older women are rarely seen as having close needs, and for younger women, sexual agents are often a skinned walk—too much you can “be deprived and slut-shamed,” Minter says.
“When you are 25, people are very worried about young women who have sex agents – it’s really scary for people,” she said.
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But artists have seen some advancements that are seen as ideal on our TV screens, reflecting a broader shift in cultural attitudes around sexuality. She pointed to photos from People magazine, comparing the roles of “Golden Girl” and “Sex and City” who were the same age when HBO Max (owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery) restarted. “In the 2020s, the 50s look a lot different!” the title shouted.
Although “Golden Girl” also delves into romance and intimacy – and watches the era’s gender-positive gender, it contrasts with how women in their 50s are shown in two shows.
“I thought, ‘Well, that’s why it’s different,” she said. “First: People live longer, they’re healthier… Second: It’s something called Viagra.” Minter smiled, “But who retired at 54? Going home in Florida with three other ladies? What?”
She hopes that “older gender” will not only be a much-needed visual reference, because intimacy can be outrageous for older ages, but will also resonate with those who ignore their desires and lives.
“This allows people who are ashamed of sexual impulses,” she said. “I hope this allows them to explore and eliminate the stigma.”
“gender” published by JBE Books and is now available.
