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May 5th, 2014
An artist who tied a rooster to penis in Paris was charged with sexual exhibitionism. Steven Cohen was found guilty of sexual exhibitionism despite claiming he tied a live rooster to his penis near the Eiffel Tower for ‘performance art’.
Last September Steven Cohen danced on the French capital’s Trocadero Plaza dressed in a corset, high heels, long red gloves and an elaborate feathered headdress with a rooster attached to his penis by a ribbon.
He told the newspaper the Paris piece was a reaction to an increasingly homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic world.
“In showing the most intimate part of me, I’m saying: I’m male, I’m Jewish, I’m queer, I’m white,” he said.
The good news is the rooster, named Franck, was not harmed during the performance.
Is this art? A form of free speech that should be protected? Or is this exhibitionism that Mr. Cohen should face judicial consequences for?
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