Madonna-Whore Complex, Arts and Men

What is the Madonna-whore complex? Why has this caricature pit women against each other? How can we disrupt the good girl/ bad girl narrative that impacts the way we see and are seen?

Inspired by a story shared by our Assistant Producer, Effy and Jacqueline unpack why some men don’t feel like they can get freaky with their girlfriends/fiancés/wives, and instead seek out adventurous or kinky sex with other women. They discuss how media and art perpetuate the binary way that men see women, women see themselves, and anyone in between is not seen. And they dig up images of women that transcend this dichotomy and suggest how we can change the noise, to honor the multiplicity of all humans.