I've seen contemporary art exhibits that use sex or pornography - including liminal experiences - as subject matter. THAT IS NOT WHAT RICHARDSON IS DOING. There is no social commentary going on in Richardson's "work" - it's just ill-gotten porn.

you're being woefully willfully ignorant

"Anyone over the age of 12 should know that isn't what is supposed to happen at work. They made a conscious decision to put up with it to advance their career. They did it, took the money…"

it's not two equal consenting adults. it's an employer. are you seriously this messed up, you need to ask that? or are you just trolling? because it scares me that any person might honestly not understand something so obvious.

You should read up a little bit on rape and rape statistics. I'm not trying to sound like a jerk here, but you're being woefully ignorant. In addition to all the other points mentioned, I'll also point out the increased likelihood of a person being sexually assaulted as an adult if something similar happened…

your moral compass is broken. you side with the exploiter over the exploited. that is seriously messed up.

>> Also, it's kind of amazing he can hide his crimes by putting them in plain sight and calling it art.

Please report to the nearest brain surgeon for a cranial revision - clearly your head is so far up your ass that you think it is always night.

When your character witnesses are your girlfriend and a guy who wrote "fucking Halle Berry from behind when she has short hair is like fucking a fourteen year old mulatto boy", you have made all the wrong life choices. ALL of them.

Gavin McInnes, the author of the infamous "Short Hair Is Rape" article on ThoughtCatalog, vouches for him.

So if someone acts like a scumbag, it the person who is being coerced into unwanted sexual behavior that is at fault and not the scumbag doing the coercing? I don't understand your point. "Scumbags exist so we shouldn't call out scumbags, we should call out their victims" ?

Unfortunately, it's not the same for models. I remember being 13/14 and doing a shoot because my mom insisted I should be a model. The guy was a complete skeeze and it started with provacative outfits and positions and then toplessness was suggested, a la young Miley Cyrus' vogue cover. My mom was so set on me being…

All of his work shows how clearly loves the power imbalance which is why he'd never want to use a porn model. It you are comfortable with this situation, the photos aren't going to have that same "wtf is happening" vibe. He (and his creepy assistant) know how to escalate the situation so that the women don't…

Yes, you are the only person. Stop trolling.

Because of the groundswell of support and future success that the victims that HAVE come forward have received?

"But other people do it too" is not a counter-argument.

This. He and many other men in photography and fashion LOVE this. They are already taking "sexy" shots and they can act as gatekeepers to modeling contracts so they can pressure girls into having sex. It's been a problem for a long time, one the fashion and modeling industry refuses to seriously address.

Me neither...just read it. Didn't make me ragey, but it did kind of make me want to get a pixie cut to further reduce what I devoutly hope is the already slim chance that a fellow like that might presume to ever direct a glance in my direction.

If modeling is your dream in life, the only thing you are passionate about, you are young and naive and think that the only way to get the connections that would allow you to be successful in that industry is to let a weirdo stranger jerk off on your face, then you do it in the moment without thinking. And Richardson…