![]() Now, I'm even more horrified by the concept of child abuse. What does he know about my past? Only that "mommy had a hard childhood," and that my job is to "keep kids safe." Maybe someday I'll tell him the full story. He came from a foster home, and in a way we may have saved him from abuse of his own. We adopted a son, who is now 10 years old. I came with a lot of baggage, but he saw me as I wanted to see myself. By the age of 30, I was able to open myself up to a social life-and even, eventually, a husband. I threw myself into my work as a research scientist and advocate to try to make the cycle stop. Not teachers, not public figures, not celebrities like Jared Fogle or Josh Duggar. Given my past, I'm never surprised when I find out someone is a pedophile or a sex offender. It can feel exciting to them to keep this secret, to perpetuate it. Many sexual abusers were themselves abused it makes them feel powerful to turn around and do it to someone else, to inflict their childhood trauma on another child. Is anyone trustworthy? Is any town safe? Do all humans have the capacity for such depraved behavior? Instead of making me feel worse, studying these patterns helps me cope. It can be paralyzing to consider this kind of collusion. My abuser was well connected-it was the only way to keep hidden the fact that there was a warehouse in our town hosting sex parties for pedophiles. The facilitators-photographers, parents, even police officers-need to get rich. I read that child abuse and these horrifying sex rings are about power and money, like everything else. ![]() One of my favorite professors told me, "We study our pain." I certainly studied mine. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. This aspect brings to mind Robert Mapplethorpe whose photographs were also meticulously staged as well as characterized by an uninhibited exploration of the naked body and a penchant for the drôle.Marie Claire email subscribers get intel on fashion and beauty trends, hot-off-the-press celebrity news, and more. ![]() Furthermore and running counter to his intuitive approach to shooting, Hang’s photographs also embrace a certain kind of formalism, expressed most markedly in their compositional symmetry, which along with the expressionless models, both contrast and complement their sexually-charged exhibitionism. No matter how bizarre the concept is or how contorted their posture becomes and despite their nakedness, they retain a stoic countenance giving viewers the freedom to interpret what they see as they please. And experiment he does, constructing surreal landscapes and sensual sculptures out of naked bodies, limbs, plants and animals.Ĭuriously, the people in Hang’s photos never show any emotions. This also explains why most of the models Hang uses are his friends, with whom he can be more spontaneous and relaxed and with whom he has more leeway to experiment at his leisure. What the viewer might assume as provocation or lewdness is in other words the unadulterated self-expression of an artist. Nudity as a subject matter came to him naturally, “ I didn’t even think about it” he confesses, which explains his complete disregard of boundaries and decorum.
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