Literotica has user-created erotica, including poems, stories, audio clips, drawings and anything else deemed erotic by the user base. If you didn't know the experience yourself, to see someone moaning and grimacing in orgasm's throes would look, well, you probably would not want to "have what they're having." What other thing gets us to this place of grunting and sounds that leads us to a state of transcendence somehow both grounded in, and sublimely beyond, the physical? And these faces contorted in orgasm reminds us that there is a bit of agony in it. The experience of going toward and riding the throbs of orgasm is so outside the realm of the rest of our lives. It is a indeed a turn-on, and thought-provoking as well, if you want to go that way. “We wondered whether film of a genuine, unscripted, natural orgasm - showing only the face - could succeed where the most visceral mainstream pornography fails, and that is, to actually turn us on.” “Beautiful Agony began as a multimedia experiment,” explain founders Richard Lawrence and Lauren Olney on the site. (Free.)īeautiful Agony, a collection of short films submitted by users showing their faces during orgasm, is celebration of la petite mort. At the same time, the sound-only format lends a visceral immediacy and allows space for imagination. It plays on whatever our aural equivalent of voyeurism is, and seems both arousing and transgressive. The sound clips feel shockingly intimate, like overhearing a neighbor or roommate in the throes of sexual thrall. And for everyone, as we're told every day, it's just hugely fun.” (Pay site with free previews.)Īudio Porn is a stripped-down Tumblr site with little to look at, save for the explanation “A collection of the sexiest sounds.” The press n' play audio clips have brief labels like “Boy Masturbation,” “Sex on a Squeaky Bed!” and “Vibrator Orgasm” and include no photos or other information. For others it's a rebellious gesture, erotic expression, a desire to be desired, or a cathartic process. For some contributors this is an exposition of pure art. The ability to show yourself on your terms, how you'd like to be seen, free from the distortion of someone else's viewpoint and the sanitizing of Photoshop. “What inspires women to submit their naked photos online?” reads the Project_ISM Principle. What makes this different than just a collection of nudie pics to leer at-which is certainly is as well- is the intent behind the site and the Euro/arty vibe of the photos (the site is based in the Netherlands).īy taking their own photos, contributors are wresting control of their images from pornographers, and creating a joyful, creative and often sassy celebration of female sexuality. I Shot Myself, aka Project_ISM, is a collection of nude selfies taken by women (and a few men). On the final level I want to explore the cultural contrast between art and sex, particularly how people react to the mixture of the two,” writes Cubitt. On the level after that I want to explore the relationship of female sexuality to society's concepts of shame. On the next level I want to explore the battle between the mind and the body. “On the surface level I want to short-circuit the practiced poses of modern media-savvy portrait subjects. It's that line between control and loss of control that's so interesting about Hysterical Literature. Here's Janet reading from “Friendship and Character” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. They fight to keep their composure, and it's completely fascinating. However, under the table, there is an unseen person equipped with a back massager who is assigned to distract the reader as she reads.Īs the vibrator does what vibrators do so well, the women try to keep it together and keep reading, but begin to show signs of losing focus with a little gasp, a quick intake of breath or wiggling in their chairs for a better position. Hysterical Literature, an art project by Clayton Cubitt, is a collection of stark black-and-white videos, each featuring a woman sitting at a table reading aloud from a book of her choosing. Or at least that's what you can tell yourself when you look at them instead of bourgeois ol' regular porn. Some are even part sociological study and thought experiment. Like Swedish art films of yore, these sites occupy a space somewhere between art, erotica and porn. If you're looking for some not-so porny porn, start with the seven sites below. What if you want something that's-I don't know-classier, I suppose? Smut that's plenty sexy, but also artistic and intelligent and just oss. Rule 34 doesn't, however, guarantee there's a decent porn for it. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.Īccording to Rule 34, if it exists, there's a porn for it.
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