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'Nevermind'

This is really interesting.

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A naked baby boy swimming underwater with a U.S. dollar bill on a fishhook just out of his reach.

This is the album cover for the Nevermind album by Nirvana. When someone warned Cobain, the band's lead that the infant's penis that is very apparent in the picture would cause offense among people, his response was that

the only compromise he would accept would be a sticker covering the penis reading: "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile."

And then in August 2021, almost 30 years after the album was released, Spencer Elden, the infant in the picture files a lawsuit against Cobain and others involved with the album claiming non consent and child pornography. The lawsuit also chose to interpret the image as "...Spencer, like a sex worker grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed."

Elden is still going on with the lawsuit.


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