What I love about this is that it documents Mapplethorpe and David Croland in 1970. There aren't that many films from that time showing this kind of tenderness between a male couple.
The doctor who pierced Robert's nipple was poet-doctor Herbert Krohn, a friend of mine who lived at the Chelsea at that time. He told me he refused, in good conscience, to pierce the nipple because it could do harm, possibly cause cancer. Instead, he pierced slightly above the nipple. Mapplethorpe was angry at him because he wanted the nipple pierced.
Patti and Robert were friends all along. They were just kids and mistakenly confused the bond as something more. I think Robert may have known all along that he was gay, though. Thanks for the video!
We're i watching anyone else get there nipple stabbed through with a decoration is likely be disgusted,but as I watched real footage of a man I've so fawned over through writings of him,I find myself wiping tears from my face. In part from sadness that I never had the option of encountering such a beautiful creature,in part because I get to see this of him in his true rawest state
Their behavior was disgusting and egoistic. They had no shame to do this in front of Patti, Robert's girlfriend of 7 years. I can imagine how heartbreaking it was for her. Two narcisstic, vain idiots! I've no respect for this kind of peoples.
