In a portrait series aptly named A Dream Come True, Russian artist Alexandra Rubenstein is fighting against the misrepresentation of cunnilingus in pop culture by painting your favourite celebrities going down on you.
Rubenstein began this project to rage against the fact that somehow, women’s pleasure is still deemed scandalous in a lot of western media, including film, television and pornography.
Why do men get to have all the fun? For the last 20 years, Alexandra Rubenstein has been creating art that turns the long-fraught oral sex paradigm upside-down.
Sex in pop culture is a spicy topic to say the least, and the arguments around the subject are too numerous to tackle at once. Rubenstein chooses to rebut the overwhelming portrayal that sex is about a man’s pleasure, by focusing on popular women’s fantasies.
“I wanted to explore fantasy from women’s point of view, which usually includes Jon Hamm and cunnilingus. At least for me.”
You can see the rest of the series below:
This article originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.
