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It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked. For many centuries, in Christian art, depictions of hell offered both of these elemental satisfactions.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?