http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2010/01/16/morbid-art/ Eclectic Musings For Distinctly Morbid Minds Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2010/01/16/morbid-art/comment-page-1/#comment-4567 Max Shea Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:11:04 +0000 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/?p=792#comment-4567 Hustler Magazine published that photo in 1978. I must have been nine. I sneaked my Dad's copy. Larry Flynt's expose of STDs was a feature in that issue. It feature that very photo from Anthony Wisdom's "Color Atlas of Venereology" (Mosby, 1973). It scared the living crap out of my and burned in my mind for weeks. Later on in college, I picked up that issue of Hustler at a flea market. My brain could process the image this time. It's still pretty gnarly. I always wondered what the identity of that woman dying of tertiary syphilis was. Hustler Magazine published that photo in 1978. I must have been nine. I sneaked my Dad’s copy. Larry Flynt’s expose of STDs was a feature in that issue. It feature that very photo from Anthony Wisdom’s “Color Atlas of Venereology” (Mosby, 1973). It scared the living crap out of my and burned in my mind for weeks. Later on in college, I picked up that issue of Hustler at a flea market. My brain could process the image this time. It’s still pretty gnarly. I always wondered what the identity of that woman dying of tertiary syphilis was.

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