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Trans-identified musician Ethel Cain is catching heat for posting risque bedroom photos which clearly show his male genitalia on Instagram despite clear community guidelines prohibiting this type of nudity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 28-year-old creator first posted the images on Thursday. The post originally had no content warning, but sometime prior to Saturday received a blurred \u201csensitive content<\/a>\u201d warning which can be circumvented with a single click by account holders of any age.<\/span><\/p>\n Per Instagram <\/span>community guidelines<\/span><\/a>, nudity is \u201cnot allowed\u201d on the platform, with exceptions being made only for breastfeeding, post-mastectomy scarring, and nudity appearing in sculptures or paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n Meta did not immediately reply to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n Cain, whose real name is Hayden Anhed\u00f6nia, has courted controversy before. He was born and raised in a Southern Baptist household and rebelled hard after turning 18, \u201ctransitioning\u201d into a woman and beginning to create music with a dark aesthetic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Album releases \u201cInbred,\u201d \u201cPreacher\u2019s Daughter\u201d and \u201cWilloughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You\u201d involve violent, disturbing lyrics with taboo themes including incest, abusive religious practices, and demonic possession.<\/span><\/p>\n The singer was called out for wearing a \u201clegalize incest\u201d t-shirt and using a real missing poster<\/a> for a murdered child, repurposed with his own name, to promote his music. Cain apologized for wearing the shirt and for using the \u201cn\u201d word in the past, but at the same time defended the concept of subversive \u201cart.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Regarding the topic of incest in my artwork, it\u2019s a layered experience,\u201d he <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a> as part of a lengthy statement. \u201cI have always been interested in creating art centered around the taboo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhile sometimes the topic of incest may get intermingled on a song with my own experiences of sexual abuse or my own familial traumas, I have never and would never fetishize such a sensitive subject,\u201d the statement continued.<\/span><\/p>\n Predictably, Cain\u2019s defenders accused any dissension about the graphic photos as being \u201ctransphobic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNo, Ethel Cain is not sexually harassing you by posting her d*ck. You\u2019re just transphobic and also weird about non-sexual nudity,\u201d one X commenter <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n