This series addresses childhood as the period in one's development when gender and sexual distinctions are not yet clearly defined.
The androgyny of an undeveloped youth often allows the individual to be mistakenly identified as the opposite gender. At this stage of
development, opposite gender clothing items are often passed down from older siblings and worn by the child without special notice.
Sexual contact between same-gender members is equally common and tolerable during this period. It is not until the child approaches
adulthood that such occurrences become problematic. Adulthood is the passage into a rigid structure where gender and sexual blurring is
evaluated against a so-called "norm," based on society's essentialist methods of classification. In this adult recollection of the
uninhibited nature of childhood, the models long to reclaim their lost freedom. |
