Lady Gaga’s stint as guest editor at V Magazine came with plenty of surprises, like a reunion photo shoot between Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane and a tribute to Alexander McQueen with Daphne Guinness. But the most shocking cover of all features a naked picture of the pop supernova and her fiancé Taylor Kinney post-coitus. Their intertwined bodies are covered in “adult finger paint” as their sex session took place on top of a canvas. Naturally.
Lady Gaga revealed that Kinney always wanted to make love on a paint-splattered canvas: “Since we first met, Taylor’s been drawing and painting all over me. Years ago, when we were secretly living in San Diego and crashing on the floor of a beach shack, we never wore shoes. He told me he wanted to make love to me on a canvas. And though he made many murals on my body in the wee, small hours of our stoked, gypsy mornings with our friends, for whatever reason we never got around to it,” she wrote in the editor’s letter.
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But their steamy session served an even greater purpose. According to Gaga, they had sex for world peace. “We made love on the canvas on a Sunday in Chicago. We made love amidst chaos. We talked about shootings. We made love amidst terrorism. And we talked about how people’s hearts are also suffering all over the world as they watch and witness a swell of violence. We made love amidst violence.” That sure beats standing outside for hours at a protest, right?
At least this gratuitous public display of affection is for a good cause. All proceeds from the $50 cover will benefit Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.
