Strange Shelf

Browsing Urban Outfitters and found this book: And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski. Nothing special about the cover. The content is mostly explicit scenes involving animals and women—graphic, no pretense. Just sitting there among the design books, priced and shelved like anything else.

What got me was the casualness. A few years back something this transgressive wouldn’t touch mainstream retail. Now it’s just another purchase, neither forbidden nor precious. Urban Outfitters selling animal erotica without ceremony.

Strange what ends up in normal circulation these days.