

Cobain claimed that he hid a photo of Kiss on the back cover. The children are young and it is very graphic. Cobain refused to compromise on editing out Elden’s penis for certain stores. “The typical child pornography that is being seen in law enforcement and pursued in the courts can be violent. “Nudity of a child alone is not the definition of pornography,” she said. This lawsuit is not a typical child pornography case, said Mary Graw Leary, a professor at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. “Why am I still on their cover if I’m not that big of a deal?” he said.Įlden is “asking for Nirvana to do what Nirvana should have done 30 years ago and redact the images of his genitalia from the album cover,” Mabie said. Sat 22.47 EDT Last modified on Mon 00.09 EDT The naked Nirvana baby has been recreated yet again this time on the unsuspecting streets of Adelaide. He said that his feelings about the cover began to change “just a few months ago, when I was reaching out to Nirvana to see if they wanted to be part of my art show.”Įlden said he was referred to managers and lawyers. Elden appeared to celebrate his part in the classic cover, recreating the moment for the album’s 10th, 17th, 20th and 25th anniversaries, though not naked. But now, three decades later, he is taking legal action against the surviving members of. “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice,” Elden said to GQ Australia. He's given interviews about the cover over the years and recreated the image for multiple anniversaries. In a different interview that year, he said he was angry that people still talked about it. The naked swimming baby from the cover of the groundbreaking Nirvana album Nevermind re-enacted the image for the record’s 25th anniversary this time wearing clothes. “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis,” he said in a New York Post interview in 2016.
