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- From Peter Webb's The Erotic Arts, 1975:
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Among the more recent examples from the American underground [...] A more
bizarre film is Sandy Daley's Robert Having His Nipple Pierced
(1971) in which Robert undergoes this painful operation in the arms of
his boyfriend, while his unseen girlfriend gives a hilarious commentary
which includes an uninhibited account of Robert's homosexual adventures
and her own sexual hang-ups. If the images become too harrowing, the
soundtrack can be enjoyed with the eyes closed.
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From Patricia Morrisroe's Mapplethorpe, 1995:
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On November 24 Robert Having His Nipple Pierced had its
premiere at the Museum of Modern Art - a triumph for Sandy Daley,
who, through sheer determination, had managed to convince MOMA
of the film's merits. Even more interesting than the movie was
the fact that John McKendry, Maxime de la Falaise, and
David Croland were all sitting together in the audience to
watch Mapplethorpe, whom John adored and Maxime detested,
make love to ex-boyfriend Croland. Patti Smith added another
twist to the real-life subplot by providing the voice-over to the
film: while Mapplethorpe and Croland tenderly kissed, Smith
blamed Mapplethorpe for giving her a venereal disease,
expresssed her discomfort toward homosexuals because she
didn't like "asshole stuff", then offered
a rambling and bizarre account of how her father saved her pubic
hair after it had been shaved of by the nurses before she gave
birth.
At the end of the movie the audience gave Daley a standing ovation,
but just as she was about to acknowledge the applause, a man
shouted "You people need psychiatrists!" Daley was
so distraught that she sank back down in her seat, and although
Bob Colacello, reviewing the movie in the The Village Voice,
later described both her and Patti as "highly talented verbal and visual
originals", she considered the entire night a failure; whatever
fragile confidence she had disappeared.
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