I recently received this email:
I found your articles on teenage sexual repression & pedophilia very interesting.
I am in agreement with your views in that area (I haven't read the rest of your blog to know your other views yet).
In the US, the laws on sexual repression/oppression are getting worse. I say this because I am a convicted sex offender.
It happened 10 years ago when at the age of 19 I had consensual sex with a girl aged 14.
At the time she told me that she was 18 (thus legal). The blame all fell on me however.
I was told that I should have known better and sentenced to two years in prison.
At that age, by US law, I was unable to make the decision to consume alcohol responsibly, yet I should have known that she wasn't 18?
How shocking is that?
For me, consensual sex with a 14 year-old is perfectly natural and understandable.
The age of cosnent in Japan Is 12. That seems reasonable. 60 years ago homosexuality was considered abhorrent. Today it is - more or less - perfectly acceptable.
When will the taboo against teenage sex be broken? Ed Strong
Jock Sturges [born 1947] has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography. Sturges shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girls.
The photos have an undeniably erotic quality, unlike some types of nude photography that treat the human body more as abstract form. However, Sturges aims to draw out the models' own sense of burgeoning sexuality in a straightforward, personal, non-voyeuristic way.
Sturges uses a large-format camera to create extremely detailed, finegrained images, while his strong feel for sunlight bathes his models and settings with a shimmering quality.
In his writings, Sturges prides himself on the bonds of trust, friendship and collaboration between the photographer, the models and their families. Many of his photographs depict several generations naked together.
Some critics have condemned his work as thinly disguised underage pornography hiding behind the mantle of fine art.
To be fair, the market for Sturges's books certainly includes a great many adult males who like looking at naked teenage girls and who have little use for the photographs' artistic qualities.
Sturges and his defenders sometimes disingenuously proclaim the "innocence" of his pictures of nude adolescents.
In a more legitimate line of argument, Sturges criticizes the arbitrary division of people and their bodies into sexualized adults (over 18) and supposedly asexual children (under 18).
The question really is: Should tasteful, non-exploitative erotic photography of adolescents be allowed? Is such a thing even possible? The photography of Jock Sturges presents a powerful case for the affirmative.
Not surprisingly, Sturges has faced legal threats throughout his career. In April 1990, FBI agents raided his studio, confiscated his equipment and work, and charged him with child pornography.
Both the art world and the naturist communities publicly came to his defense.
After more than a year of investigation, a grand jury threw out the case against Sturges. An expensive lawsuit eventually got Sturges his work and equipment back, though some had been damaged beyond repair.
In the mid 1990s, his work came under attack again, this time from christian conservatives led by Operation Rescue (led by Randall Terry, best known for anti-abortion protests) and Focus on the Family (led by James Dobson).
Protesters picketed major bookstores around the country for carrying books by Jock Sturges, David Hamilton and others which included photographs of nude adolescents.
At some stores, protesters committed civil disobedience by openly vandalizing the books. And in two cases (both in the South), they managed to convince prosecutors to indict Barnes & Noble bookstores on child pornography and obscenity charges.
Again, Sturges received strong public support from artistic and civil libertarian organizations. Sturges himself aggressively defended his work in a series of talks and interviews.
Jock Sturges received a BA in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
His published collections include: The Last Day of Summer (1991), Radiant Identities (1994), Jock Sturges (1996), and Jock Sturges: New Work 1997-2000 (2000).
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i hadn't noticed he was playing a jag, and frankly can't believe it. i'm going back in to watch. wait which one is he again? hahahhaahaha.
playing a Jaguar, like Kurt later...
AWESOME ! Very Horny Experience across the board.....Jimmy ~
that Was not Jimmy, jimmy is two guys to the left, playing lefty
Know how to spell his name?
ive never thought "skinny jeans" existed way back!
Yes. Jimi is the left-hand player. Can't believe the fool got that wrong.
@aristotle358 DEAR dickhead; i did you the service of uploading it i didn't bother to correct the filmmakers obvious mistake. i assure you that he and I and everyone else on this thread know who the fuck Jimi Hendrix is, but that those same people had not seen this clip. go back to criticizing your mom's cooking and fuck off of this and every other video with adults who don't want to read teenage bullshit
Dear! Gay or not, they sing and dance so well as to leave all others behind!
Wow that was gay.
Jimi is playing a Jazzmaster, actually. And these guys have some "jazz hands"
that is not jimi hendrix he is not next to the saxaphone player and that guy is playing the guitar right handed
after seeing this lucky jim saved music with voodoo child and what not!
I think this is from a Nashville TV station--WSM. Jimi had just been discharged from the 101st Airborne and he was living in Nashville in those days.
@JimBrinkley1 bingo
Excellent, TY!
man, they are "light on their feet!"
Did anyone notice the star looking design right behind hendrix?! And the three looking figures pointing at him kind of?! Cool. He soon was a star!
Hendrix in the background doing what he does best, playing the shit out of a guitar.
Yeah,
Jimi is obviously the far left one. Look at the way he's going with his hand above his neck and doing some totally different stuff than the others haha.
And h's left handed off couse!
how can you be so fucking gay?
@Hawolation finally a guy who knows. i agree that stacy and whatshisface are the gayest performers I have ever seen!!!
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@gaejangguk the guy you pointed to in the beginning was not jimi, jimi played left hand and that guy was playing righty, the guy on the far left was jimi.
@jroxx11211 Good call, I was wondering about that!
@esslar1 thanks, if you look close you can see its definitely jimi playin left handed all the way on the left side, ROCK ON!!!
@Hawolation i give buddy and stacy two snaps up for being such well dressed mens
the picture that points out who jimi is is wrong. he is on the far right in the line of guitar/brass players
@sublime88sublime far left, sorry
@sublime88sublime goddamnit we know. i'll just remove it if that's all you can pick out from this monument
i dont believe the still picture is JH, cuz Jimi is left handed and the guitarist is right.
@sosidecop64 he is playing a fender jaguar flipped over to a lefty setup