Not in unclean underwear, mind you...but in NO underwear.
The extent of this cutting, which "has no health benefits", involves removal of "healthy and normal female genital tissue" and is associated with ideas about "unclean" sexual parts, is immaterial.
According to a description of the installation that literally went from floor to ceiling, and was very appropriately called WasteAfterWaste, Bianchi uses "found and manipulated materials, including defunct technologies or recently discarded commercial products, which reflects his interest in ideas of the unclean, the abject, and the wastefulness of contemporary commodity culture".
I got in touch with Dan Smith, the main card illustrator, who told me, "Unknown to most, and I say this with a degree of apprehension, speaking out now that the events are in the past, Steve dabbled in reprehensible, unclean practices to obtain his card ideas.
The idea that humans are so unclean on the inside had preoccupied Louise for weeks.
This might seem ludicrous now, but this idea of women being ritually unclean is seen in the bible.
They loved the idea of purifying things that were unclean, corrupt, or tainted — from germ-infested urban tenements to political graft to predatory business practices.
It seems our deeply ingrained ideas about sanitation and fears about appearing somehow unclean actually work against the adoption of the bidet.
"I admire coping strategies," George says, "but really, why are we ashamed?" It seems our deeply ingrained ideas about sanitation and fears about appearing somehow unclean actually work against the adoption of the bidet.
"Guests thought that the bedspreads were unclean," he says.
