a moral prohibition

in some countries it's still a punishable crime for women to seek termination for unwanted pregnancies. abortion is many other places is still considered a cultural & ethical crime.

82 women died last year in nicaragua because the practice is outlawed even if the woman's life is in danger & the women who tried to do so anyway subsequently haemorraged out their last breaths in a bloody shameful secreted-away heap.

the third world: it's a minimal existence: not enough money, food, housing, healthcare or opportunities to feed the already existing mouths & minds on demand whilst you're being ass-raped by major corporates (thankfully you can't conceive from that).

with recent reiteration by the catholic church on the world papal african tour that the use of condoms are a crime against god "a clear moral prohibition", illegal clinics not nearly as quaint as these pictured above from the 1950s in sydney will result in many more souls making their way to heaven: women & embryos, expulsed or not.

[photos courtesy of sydney justice & police museum]

mother/whore dichotomy grows leg [s]

as an ongoing part of my passion/research into femme fatales as iconic film characters, sunday saw me with fellow punk monks, ky & derm at sydney's justice & police museum where femme fatale: the female criminal exhibition draws to a close.

fab pulp covers & iconic poster art from the film noir era are juxtaposed with historic female criminal accounts through print & video installations. where mythology meets reality --> the vicious vixen & the fallen woman.

pictured above is eugenia falleni, no faye daunaway, she was known as the "man-woman" murderer. at the end of the 19th century she emigrated to australia from her native italy, disguised as a man: a ruse she continued all of her life [until incarceration].

in fact she was so good at it that with the aid of her enormous member [see pic] she went through two wives, one of whom she murdered along the way. it is unclear whether her true sexual identity was ever revealed to her former wives. it would seem they were left in the dark [and arguably rather well taken care of until their/her untimely departure].