ULTRAVENUS ISSUE 1: GODS AND MONSTERS May. 2014 | Page 83

In 1992, with a swiftly upward climbing career behind her, superstar-in-the-making Madonna teamed with the magnum opus of photographers Steven Meisel. When two forces like these collide, it is inevitable that the result is something incredible. That something was Sex. At the time, the concept for Sex was highly controversial. So much so, that Madonna was forced to sign a contract before embarking on the project that forbade her from depicting child pornography and bestiality. Because, of course, the idea of a woman publicly embracing her sexuality is in an equal playing field to these abhorrent sexual taboo’s.