“…and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there’s nothing offensive about a naked behind if it’s everybody’s; each person will be mirrored in it.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre, book Saint Genet

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Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

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