Comments on: Sex Tourism With Statues https://hyperallergic.com/788300/sex-tourism-with-statues/ Sensitive to Art & its Discontents Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:48:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Valerie Hird https://hyperallergic.com/788300/sex-tourism-with-statues/#comment-614590 Sat, 07 Jan 2023 14:17:29 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=788300#comment-614590 I think we need to be very careful about sensationalizing this issue. ‘Sexing’ up the title combined with Hrag’s endorsement of the term obscures the distinction between the trade in illegal objects supported by wealthy and thoughtless tourists, and tourism. Conflating the two leads to a dangerously xenophobic attitude toward exploring cultures other than your own and discourages the willingness to learn and experience different ways of thought and practice. Please be careful. Sensationalist clickbait titles are reductive and serve no purpose.

]]> By: Nicholas Espeset https://hyperallergic.com/788300/sex-tourism-with-statues/#comment-614568 Thu, 05 Jan 2023 05:42:48 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=788300#comment-614568 Erin Thompson,

Thank you for this excellent and sad article. I studied for many years, decades really, with the Tibetan teacher and artist Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché.

He warned that we were entering the Dark Age knows as the Age of Materialism, and that this time was most dangerous because it was the Age Of Spiritual Materialism.

He was so concerned that in 1973 he wrote the book ‘Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism’.

Somehow, I doubt Alain Bordier read it.

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