Why the Scissor Sisters Love Robert Mapplethorpe
Jake Shears, The Times
January 2011
I saw my first Robert Mapplethorpe photograph when I was at high school: it was a picture of a man in a suit with his big black penis hanging out of the front. I was kind of scandalised when I saw it. I thought it was amazing. I couldn’t believe anyone could take such a picture, still less it could enter the mass consciousness. […]