Document:Q9330
From Rhizome Artbase
There's a personal erotic reality. To be and to be seen, to want and to be wanted, these desires take form in sexual display. Among humans sexual display has different values depending on whether it's private, which is acceptable, or public, where it is pornography or erotica. Even erotica has shady connotations because of the devaluation of the pleasure principle in Western culture. Yet because sexuality is such a powerful force we all feel a desire to communicate our personal reaction or else to see how others behave. In this process we inform ourselves / others and create shared culture.
A Kodak Moment is a validation of the erotic quality in human life.
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