“Nudity of a child alone is not the definition of pornography,” she said. This lawsuit is not a typical child pornography case, said Mary Graw Leary, a professor at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. “Why am I still on their cover if I’m not that big of a deal?” he said.Įlden is “asking for Nirvana to do what Nirvana should have done 30 years ago and redact the images of his genitalia from the album cover,” Mabie said. He said that his feelings about the cover began to change “just a few months ago, when I was reaching out to Nirvana to see if they wanted to be part of my art show.”Įlden said he was referred to managers and lawyers. “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice,” Elden said to GQ Australia. In a different interview that year, he said he was angry that people still talked about it. “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis,” he said in a New York Post interview in 2016.

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