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While most people regard R. Crumb as a rather strange, kinky and sexually 'hung-up' eccentric graphic artist of the 60s/70s era, he is in fact both a considerably gifted artist AND reflectively intelligent human being. While many leftist liberal progressives today regard Crumb as an archetypal 'sexist pig', in actuality R. Crumb lays the biological facts of gender realities on the line in his graphic works, with no bones (pun intended) about it! The hard, cold truth of life is that male human beings are biologically programmed to lust after female human beings and what many regard as 'sexual perversions' are just different means of expressing this basic truth of existence. Of course those who hew strongly to various conservative religious codes have difficulty accepting their own 'animal sexuality', but for those who are not so constrained, just about anything is permissible in the sexual arena (short of cruelly & deliberately causing pain in others and engaging in clearly execrable practices such as pederasty). Crumb recognises this intellectual argument and give free vent to his own quite interesting (& natural) sexual hangups. Most entertaining and a very worthy addition to any collection of R. Crumb works! Published (and edited) in Germany and somewhat more difficult to find than other books dealing with this archetypal graphic artist.
