Artist Marilyn Minter’s bold, body-positive new photo book, Elder Sex, is an unbridled exploration of sex after the age of 70
If anyone should make a book on sex lives after 70, it’s surely Marilyn Minter. Since the late 1960s, the American artist has fearlessly dissected desire, feminism and beauty norms to provocative effect. She is best known for hyper-realistic paintings that sample the aesthetics of high-fashion editorials. But instead of ultra-polished perfection, her often-cropped bodies are smeared with dirt, and metallic make-up and laden with jewels.
Slicked bodies, abundant flesh and skimpy lingerie: these are the aesthetic tropes that consumerism has been peddling for years, but rarely when it comes to the over-seventies. In Minter’s new book,, gone are the hyper-taught, airbrush-ironed, and younger bodies for which erotica and any mainstream nudity have become synonymous. Within its chromatically sumptuous, glistening pages,brazenly subverts stereotypes and conventional visions of sex.
Minter – who has also just opened a major new show of recent work at LGDR gallery, New York – originally published the series to accompany a 2022 article in, in which writer Maggie Jones delved into the contemporary landscape of intercourse for older people through dozens of interviews. The findings were that those aged 70 and above were still having sex, and lots of it; for some, sex was even better than in their younger years.
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