taboo Tag

In an era where almost every part is sexually permitted, and shock has been supplanted by outrage, taboo has lost its potency on the runway This text is a component of our Way forward for Sex season – a series of features investigating the long run of sex, relationships, dating, sex work and sex employee rights; tech; taboos; and the subsequent socio-political sexual frontiers. The one image to look on the invitation was that of human flesh. A pale wound haphazardly sewn back along with bits of string, as if it were the handiwork of a backstreet surgeon or an act of self-mutilation. That piece of card can be the prelude to half-hour of psychic romance, where women staggered through a catwalk strewn with...