As the ability to profit off of traditional porn plummets in a rapidly changing x-economy, the industry is especially open to twisting norms or shocking sensibilities.
There is plenty of brutality and death on our computer screens, but this live gore-fest is powerfully shocking to sensibilities numbed by virtual horror.
They do this in the time-honored bohemian tradition of shocking middle-class sensibilities and to affirm the naturalness and dignity of mental disability.
Despite her affinity with the city, she still thinks of herself as a New Yorker, and seems to enjoy shocking West Coast sensibilities.
They are deeply concerned by images they deem to be blasphemous or shocking to religious sensibilities, and which are being imposed on them by a global information system that serves the interests of Western governments and international technology companies.
Hot and bothersome, it is a barrage of guileful effects, surveying the artist's lifelong campaign to surprise and impress — when not shocking and awing — British sensibility.
The mentally ill tend to be relegated to slapstick sub-plots, alongside a central love story.Such stereotypes may be shocking to Western scientific sensibilities, but they can still in Dr Bhugra's view be a useful window on some aspects of Indian culture.
Knausgaard's unflinching descriptions of his marriages, his father's alcoholism, his second wife's bipolar disorder and his conflicted feelings about fatherhood were profoundly shocking to the Lutheran sensibilities of a country that is less comfortable with public confessions than the Oprah-soaked anglophone world.
By creating this plate mail dress, haute couture technologist, robotic dress-designer, and Fergie stylist Anouk Wipprecht has merged Medieval battlefield sensibilities with shocking turn-of-the-century chic.
It was apparently much recited in ateliers and brasseries, as a shocking, scandalous assault on bourgeois sensibility, and contributed to the legend of Baudelaire as the "Prince of Corpses".
