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Indecent Docent:
Sex-Deprived Tina.

BY CARLY SACHS

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 Let's begin here with the use of color.
 I find the painting to be overtly sexual, I think
 it was intentional, I mean the artist
 must have realized how erotic paint
 can be, the opposite of undressing, you
 know, what I'd give to be 10 years younger

 because everyone wants to fuck someone younger
 or someone whose skin is a different color
 than yours. Don't tell me that you 
 don't have these fantasies. The problem is that I think
 too much. I mean, what if I could paint
 like that, you know, I'd be a fucking artist

 and I've always wanted to fuck an artist
 or perhaps a sculptor, but I'm not getting any younger. 
 What artist would want to paint
 me naked? Who wants to see that? Only a color-
 blind artist maybe, would get me, I think:
 you know, the whole essence of me, you

 know. Now I know what you're 
 all thinking. I couldn't get an artist
 to fuck me. Well, you know what I think? 
 Fuck you! I was hot to trot when I was younger, 
 you know, like if my sex were a color, 
 it would be like Jackson fucking Pollock with paint

 all over the place. This one time I bought these body paints, 
 but it wasn't the same, you 
 know. Like it was too forced, so we tried watercolor,
 but then we felt more like kids than artists, 
 you know. It was better when we were younger, 
 less inhibition, less shit to think

 about. That's why I come here, to stop thinking
 about myself. I think about the way paint
 changes everything. The way it hides things, it makes me younger, 
 I think. To come here, sort of like Dorian Gray, you
 know, he had that artist 
 paint him, but you saw his true colors

 shining through, eventually, because the color of thoughts
 is that thing that artists like to paint
 so you can see yourself younger, you know. 

 

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