The singer said women have been giving birth “since the beginning of time.”
Madonna defended herself against backlash this week after releasing a graphic series of nonfunigble tokens that feature a depiction of her nude body, saying the project shows her doing “what women have been doing since the beginning of time, which is giving birth.”
“We’re always operating and living under the male gaze, and unfortunately pandering to what we think people want us to do,” Madonna said. “It is often a challenge to create works of art… and it isn’t always pretty.”
Madonna has been scrutinized for depicting sex in her work for decades. Her saucy performance of “Like A Virgin” at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards while wearing a wedding dress received backlash in 1984, and six years later the music video for her song “Justify My Love” was banned by the broadcaster altogether for depicting group sex.
