Thursday, July 2, 2009

Day 1000 - Sex art, not porn

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Helmut Newton

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Helmut Newton

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Helmut Newton

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Hokusai - The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife

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Gustave Courbet - The Origin Of The World

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Toulouse-Lautrec

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Toulouse-Lautrec

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Utamaro Shunga

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Utamaro Shunga

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Hokusai Shunga

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Ancient Greek Pottery

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Egon Schiele

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Edouard Manet

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Gustave Courbet - The Sleep

There is no such thing as good/bad porn. Art history shows that one can make art exploring human sexuality. Pornography is only the failed attempt to make art from sex. Porn is the mediocre, kitsch and gratuitous depiction of human sexuality. A porn image is one that fails to tell more than it shows, not being able to successfully cross the anatomical border of pure flesh.

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