Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney stripped down for the cover of V Magazine, which the singer guest-edited.
The engaged pair can be seen naked, sitting atop a canvas, covered in paint, numerous tattoos exposed.
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“Since we first met, Taylor’s been painting and drawing 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 .. for whatever reason we never got around to it,” Gaga explains in the accompanying article.
“So when I asked him to collaborate with me on a project to raise money and awareness about mental illness, he immediately brought my attention back to this idea.”
She does not explain how having sex on a canvas raises money or awareness about mental illness, however. But this is Lady Gaga we’re taking about, so it’s really just par for the course.
“We made love on this canvas 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,” she continues.
“We made love amidst violence. During tumultuous times we hope everyone in the world will see this and be reminded to love each other wildly, generously, totally, colorfully, without fear and with compassionate hearts.”
Well, there you have it! Lady Gaga still loves to show some skin and call it art, or activism, or something.