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Response to Predudice against erotica at this forum? A response...

from John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com)
------------- I don't like to think of human erotic imagination in commercial terms. I'm happy to be paid for my erotic images, but this path of thinking again takes me to sexual professionalism and I don't create this sort of work with a market in mind, it really is "personal" work and those who buy it have often been of the same gender as those depicted. -------------

Perhaps sex (and erotica) should be left to the professionals! (After all we wouldn't want anyone to get hurt, now would we?)

--------------- The bluenudes images didn't really impress me. Genetically astounding women, and dedicated, polished applications, but the technique sort of overwhelms any ability or desire to place myself into any context with those girls. No hint of a woody. They looked as "created" as their environs... spandex, acrylic and megabytes ... ---------------

I'm not sure just what you can see now on BlueNudes, but I subscribed for a while just to look over his entire "oeuvre" (if you can call it that). His range, imagination, and technical skill are amazing.

But "erotica" as I define it is neither personal (as sensual portraiture is - Glamour Shots perhaps?) nor purely visceral (as pornography). Instead, it's iconic and semiotic.

Nudity per se is neither personal nor arousing. (Interest and arousal are specific sets of actions and interactions, both physical and social.) It's only when you add (or remove) the possibility of concealment that the body (as artifact) becomes sexualized. And that's what both erotica and fashion deal with - in effect being two sides of the same coin.

In a society which "suppresses" sexuality, both are forbidden - at least in public (as in Saudi Arabia, where I spent a year). In a society which "represses" sexuality (in both public and private), both are ubiquitous.

(posted 8546 days ago)

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