Hypersexualization: "The excessive use of body-centered strategies to seduce and drive consumption."
– Sylvie Richard-Bessette (Canadian psychologist)
Children today can access violent pornography with disturbing ease. It contrasts with the difficulty teenagers once faced in entering a peepshow, merely to see a naked woman.
It is not a shocking image to picture a child in their clean, safe, and comfortable bedroom, staring at a screen. But how would we react if we saw the same child inside a peepshow, in a dirty, decaying room where adults have been masturbating?
Would that lead us to reflect differently on how easily children access pornography today, whether through explicit material or hypersexualized content?
Technique/Materials
- 2 Original American Gumball machines from the 1950s. Model: Victor Grandad 1 Cent
- 1 computer with audio output: 24-minute loop feed. Audio from various pornographic films
- LEDs and neon
- Motor
- German biscuit doll from the 1920s
- Original coin from Cicero Peep Show House in Chicago, from the 1980s
- Stickers and fabric
Dimensions (cms)
40 (h) x 22 (d) x 38 (w)
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