John Ruskin and Effie Gray
Hey so the place where I am interning (the Campaign for Drawing) is an offshoot of a larger foundation based around the victorian art-guy John Ruskin. To be honest, I had not heard much of anything about him before working there, but today I found out that he famously never had sex with his wife because when he first saw her naked he was completely freaked out by her pubes! That’s the official story! That he was grossed out by her pubic hair so much that they never once boned.
That’s kind of an amazing thing to have as your legacy.
^huge bush
In a letter to her parents, she said “finally this last year he told me his true reason… that he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening 10th April [1848].”
CAN YOU IMAGINE?
(also he maybe was a pedophile or gay but who knows)
