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Is this art or just ?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/10/oedipal-art-man-mum-sex-pictures_n_4075627.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/10/oedipal-art-man-mum-sex-pictures_n_4075627.html
To most people, just the idea of witnessing your mother in the throes of passion is enough to make you spontaneously gag or want to scrub your eyeballs in bleach.
Leigh Ledare, on the other hand, has decided to embrace the most extreme of mother-son bonds, embracing a relationship that would leave Sigmund Freud rubbing his hands with glee.
Bedecked with a 60s-esque 'tasche that puts Magnum P.I. to shame, Ledare takes pictures of his mother, Tina, posing naked and having sex with other young men – all in the name of art, of course.
Some of the titles of his series, entitled Pretend You're Actually Alive, include the delicately termed 'Mom Spread with Lamp' and 'Mom fukking in Mirror' – and they are not for the easily offended, or for those who want to hold onto their breakfast.
So, what inspires a man to take photos of his mum having sex? Ledare says his work was fuelled by some, arguably oedipal, desires to document the "extremely open and intimate relationship" he has with his mother.
And does he ever get turned on when taking the photographs? "I don't know what to say" he ambiguously responds, speaking to the Guardian.
In a teenage diary entry, he names his mum alongside models and film stars in a list of "girls I wanted to do".
"I think already in the background there were some foggy boundary issues. What people talk about as being Oedipal – there's a flirtation with that, but the boundaries were never actually crossed," he said.