Still Running Off at the Keyboard

SENSUALITY pervades the streets of Havana. A short stroll finds sultry young men scouting for new sex partners outside a cinema and Lycra-clad women tossing saucy suggestions to foreign tourists.

The promise of sex is part of the landscape in tropical Cuba, carried along on languid sea breezes and the primal pounding of drums.

But is communist Cuba ready for Robert Mapplethorpe?

Cubans will find out this week when an exhibition of Mapplethorpe photographs opens in Havana, testing the limits of art in this highly sexualised society that is ruled by an authoritarian government.

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