Richardson A10

Richardson Magazine is pleased to present A10: The Morality Issue. Richardson Magazine began in 1998, and since then the fine radical publication has highlighted the intersection of sex, art and culture with the intent to inform and provoke. Releasing on September 11th, 2021, the magazine cover features Dominique Silver AKA Natassia Dreams, photographed by Glen Luchford and interviewed by Shayne Oliver. Intent on exploring the ethical snags and complications of our sexual pasts and the possibilities of our sexual futures, the issue includes works by Paul McCarthy, Frances Stark, Boris Lurie, Jordan Wolfson and Penny Slinger alongside texts by Samuel Delany, Jamieson Webster, Rachel Rabbit White, and Juliana Huxtable as well as many others. In her interview with Shayne Oliver, cover girl Dominique Silver speaks publicly for the first time ever about her separate career as the porn star Natassia Dreams, the evolution of trans identity in culture, and the perseverance of conservatism and stigma around sex work even amongst self-proclaimed progressive communities. Other selections from the issue include: a case study of pro-sex feminist artist Penny Slinger’s seminal early works, a selection of images by the irreverent American artist Frances Stark, and a critique of the conceptual relevance of toxic masculinity in Male Sexuality: A Dire Continent by psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, featured alongside images of 1990s frat hazing rituals photographed by C. Taylor Crothers. Most well-known for his science fiction works dating from the 1970s, an excerpt from Samuel Delany’s recent novella Big Joe dives into the realm of gay erotica with an explicit tale of sexual debauchery on a hippie commune in the southern United States. An interview with erotic archivist and seasoned pornographer Dian Hanson highlights the long dureé of pornographic history from vaginal cave paintings to early corporate attempts at anti-masturbation devices and the prison escape attempts of the American godfather of porn. Artist Darja Bajagić discusses the works of Boris Lurie, founder of the NO!art movement, who was ignored by the art world during his life for his anti-consumerist politics and the extreme content of his collages, both rooted in his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust. Porn Noise: In Praise of Shadows dives into the archives of American and Japanese noise music to illustrate the aesthetic significance of hardcore pornography in the history of the extreme music genre. The story Coach Stage Stage Coach includes images from an unreleased cinematic work by Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy, a Western-themed debacle in which McCarthy plays the role of Ronald Raygun in a cast of characters that includes Nancy Raygun, Adam and Eve, Jesus Christ and Rintintin.