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The word "softcore" arrived in the cultural vocabulary as a rating category — a way of describing adult content that stopped short of explicit sexual...
Tom of Finland drew men who did not exist. Robert Mapplethorpe photographed men who did. Both produced images of the male body with erotic intent, bot...
Kenneth Clark, the art historian, drew a distinction in his 1956 study The Nude that has been repeated and debated ever since. "To be naked," he wro...
