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Artist convicted for dancing with a rooster tied to his penis
05.06.2014
08:52 am
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South African artist Steven Cohen has been found guilty by a French court of sexual exhibitionism after dancing with a rooster tied to his penis in Paris.

Mr. Cohen was arrested last September, after being seen performing a dance in a square beside the Eiffel Tower, while wearing a corset, stockings, platform shoes, a feathered head-dress, made from a stuffed pheasant, with his penis attached to a rooster. He was jailed for 10 hours, interrogated and had to give a DNA sample and undergo psychiatric evaluation. Though prosecutors had requested a $1400 fine, the criminal court imposed no penalty on Mr. Cohen, as there had been no formal complaint and the artist had not engaged in a sexual act with the rooster.

After the verdict, Mr Cohen said:

“I think the victim is art. I’m not saying I’m going to, but my desire is to complete what was incorrectly halted by the authorities. I’m frustrated because it’s almost like being found guilty but not being punished. It’s like saying, ‘We are right but we are not going to do anything to you,’ which for me is a double injustice.”

As for the rooster, Tricoire (or “Frank” as Mr. Cohen named him), it is now in a chicken coop living “a totally happy life in Normandy.”
 

 
Via Arbroath

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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05.06.2014
08:52 am
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