“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”
Susan Sontag
Image from House of Cards
Image: A jade erotic art piece made during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). China.
Sexuality has been a part of the human experience since our inception as a species.
Since the beginning of civilization, humans have incorporated sexuality into erotic art, worship, and daily life. There have been cultures and times were explicit references to sexuality were more […]
“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”
Simone de Beauvoir
I’ve been redesigning this website, installing a beautiful new WordPress theme.
The site is much wider for those of you with larger monitors while also being fluid and responsive so its also great on all tablets and mobile devices.
It will also be Hi Dpi and Retina ready so the images will really pop on apple devices […]
“That erotic and pornographic photographs were produced almost from the medium’s inception should come as no surprise. That it does so is a testimonial only to the near-total elision of this fact from the standard histories in the field… Indeed, it seems reasonable to assume that almost as soon as there were viable daguerreotypes, there […]
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
Paul Strand
“The difference between porn and erotica is the lighting.”
Gloria Leonard
“I will only let you touch me if your hands are so full of intention that every brush of your palms feels like you writing a novel on my skin”
“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work… you’ll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”
Eric Maisel
Interviewer: “Are photographs less powerful now because there are so many of them in the world?”
David Bailey: “No, it just makes the good ones even more powerful. Digital and Photoshop just moved mediocrity up a stop, that’s all. They’re still mediocre – they just look better.”
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