Today on Discarded Magazine: Linda Zhengová (@lindazhengova ) reviews the book Bible: Till When I Will Die by Marcel Swann (@marcelswann ) published by King Koala Press (@kingkoalapress )

Today on Discarded Magazine: Linda Zhengová (@lindazhengova  ) reviews the book Bible: Till When I Will Die by Marcel Swann (@marcelswann  ) published by King Koala Press (@kingkoalapress  )

"Art or porn? A question that I often get asked (probably because I curated a magazine with erotic photography), as if I was some live porn detector. Who the hell knows?! I didn’t make the definitions or categories so to me they don’t matter. Nudity was always present in art, to be exact, from the very beginning, the traces can be seen already in cave paintings and continue throughout the entirety of art history. So, why did we become such prudes nowadays concerned with constant correctness, turning our bodies into stiff shells while inside we feel like little volcanoes that are about to explode at any time? A place, where such a small volcano did explode, is Marcel Swann’s (b. 1986, Brazil) latest photobook Bible: For When I Will Die.

Swann approached it as an acknowledgment of his sexual practices, in particular his adherence to paraphilia. It was born out of the urge to disclose his frustrations with not being able to live up to his sexuality in a free way because of the shame imposed by society. The term “paraphilia” can be defined as “recurrent sexual interests, urges, fantasies, or behaviors of marked intensity involving objects, activities, or even situations that are atypical in nature.” In the book, he opens us to his world of power play, period sex, group sex, fear play, foot fetish, and many more."