Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Erotic Pleasure from Poser

drafter69 opened this issue on May 19, 2006 · 244 posts


Keith posted Fri, 02 June 2006 at 1:55 AM

Quote - the rosity gallery has various forms of erotic art and artistic nudes created by people with varying tastes, skill levels and interests, but in the last 6 years i havent seen anything i would call outright 'pornography'.

Real-life bit of artistic history that shows things aren't so clear as you make them out.   In the 1950s and 1960s there was a Montreal-based photographer who specialized in male physique photography:  shirtless, very fit men taken in usually outdoorsy settings.  The pictures were advertised in certain magazines and could be mail-ordered.

It was only in the 1970s and 1980s that is was finally realized what this was: the photographer was gay and he was supplying the pictures for a gay audience.  It was porn, at least the porn that they could get away with by disguising it as something else which gave them plausible deniability.  Nowdays, of course, where gay porn and erotica is far easier to get there isn't the need to disguise it they can be explicit.  But back in the day those semi-clothed male models (many of whom weren't gay themselves) was what they had.

Now there's appreciation of said photographers work: porn disguised as art now considered as art that used to be porn.