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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a slide show exhibition and artist's book publication of photographs taken between and by photographer Nan Goldin.^[1][2] Consisting of over images,^[3] it is an autobiographical document of a portion of New York City's No wave music and art scene, the post-Stonewallgay subculture of the late s and early s, the heroin subculture of the Bowery neighborhood, and Goldin's personal family and love life.^[4]

Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in , said it "remains a benchmark for all other work in a similar confessional vein."^[5] Lucy Davies, writing in The Telegraph in , said it "would come to influence a generation of fledgling photographers, who fell into her truth-telling wake.

She was credited by Bill Clinton with inventing heroin chic".^[1]

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The title The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was adapted from a