Pubic Porn.

Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing by Leena McCall

An art gallery removed a piece of art claiming the pubic hair it depicted was too erotic for children and lots of people got mad.

Hashtag Pubegate.

The Society Of Women Artists has held an annual exhibition in London since 1857, according to their website. "In the mid-nineteenth century, women were not considered to be serious contributors to the field of art and had great difficulty in obtaining a public showing. At the first exhibition, 149 women showed 358 works, some hiding their true identities for fear of social recrimination."

Social recrimination indeed, it is to my knowledge that the artist Leena McCall wasn't even informed.

Leena McCall said - “My work deals with female sexual and erotic identity.  The fact that the gallery has deemed the work inappropriate and seen it necessary to have it removed from public display underlines the precise issue I am trying to address: how women choose to express their sexual identity beyond the male gaze.”

What I see, is the fact that this is a piece of art. A beautiful piece of art. Removed from an exhibition for fear it was too inappropriate for children who may be visiting. Children who on their way could have picked up (or purchased for 20p of their pocket money) a discarded copy of The Sun on a tube seat. Where every page is another teeny bikini clad woman with full arse and tits on show. Or fat shaming a D list celebrity. No pubes though, for that's what today has become accustomed to. Courtesy of the shaven haven baring all from surplus porn star vagina's everywhere online. Mostly all of the above for the purpose of the male gaze, what McCall is trying to direct away from. Maybe too much for children to be totally aware of, but if they are subjected to a heavily male dominated version of the way a woman is to express herself, then why is a women's perspective not allowed?

Charlotte Crosby, Geordie Shore - Criticised for weight gain. 

There is nothing wrong whatsoever, in fact, its complete normality, to have a few pubic hairs on the pubic bone. The world can try to shelter the young generation but there is nothing stopping them from being exposed. They have iPads, kindles, laptops, smart phones all equipped with a search engine that can answer their questions ..and then some, within a matter of seconds. My ten year old sister once asked me an inappropriate question to which I replied "I'll tell you the answer in a couple of years" To which she replied "fine then! I'll google it."

The world is not always a nice place. You only need to watch the news to see bombs being dropped in Gaza, a burning plane or Jimmy Saville's victims. Children are constantly exposed to reality.

Take a trip to many an art gallery around central London and you shall experience much nudity, in the form of art, not trying to be harmful and expose children to an adult world before their years. Pubic hair is being deemed as porn here and it seems extremely excessive. This is not a naked women exposing herself in any form of pornographic way. This is a painting in a gallery, especially for Women Artists. Where the artist is trying to address women's identity beyond the male gaze. I feel this highlights ignorance all round and reflects the lack of any useful education regarding modern sexuality.

Discussion was taken to twitter under the hashtag #eroticcensorship and there is a panel discussion being held at the Leyden Gallery on Thursday 24th July.

What are your thoughts on the painting being removed? Please let me know.

Recipe for Disaster

Last night I made a vegan cake and everyone in my family hated me for it.

'Chocolate Avocado Cake' to be precise. There's me, buzzin on making something gluten free, vegan - all coming from plants not the animals. Pretty healthy minus the shit loads of sugar.

"Why have you put loads of guacamole on top of a cake?" and "How many eggs did you use?"

I don't have a picture of the cake so you can just look at my face when I realised how disheartening it is to slave away for a few hours in the kitchen just to cook up something so unappreciated. But you can click here to see what everyone else's look like.

So, I did what any other self sympathising person would do - used a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut ma self a nice slice of hearty (sorry!) green cake to eat at my desk for lunch...it didn't go down too well there either.

I love avocados. I don't really like cake. So as unappealing as an avocado cake may sound to the majority of people, to me it sort of sounded like a way in to Mary Berry's crazed clique and all the great British that love getting their bake off.

It wasn't tremendously bad. I think I will have a second attempt. Although I would like to find a healthier version without so much sugar. Any recommendations? Please let me know!

I defo's over done it with the lemon juice in the icing. It made me wince a lot but I tried to style it out into a smile so I could pretend that at least I enjoyed my creation. The cake itself was spongy yet a Sahara desert style dry. And as for the aesthetics, it wasn't overly pleasing on the eye. So for now I will stick to making clean, healthy, savoury eats which can be found over here. Please feel free to take a look around.

Traumatised, I returned to what I am best at. Drinking.