May 15th, 2020 -- by Bacchus
The Turkish Bath
I’ve felt, sometimes, that people look askance when I post so-called “fine art” here on my lowbrow sex blog. But, you know, for a lot of years, it was the only porn you could find in respectable society. Don’t believe me? Then hear it from art critic Jerry Saltz, who writes:
I remember an art-history book where – when my parents weren’t home – I’d search for nudes. That was art to me. I once masturbated to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s 1862 The Turkish Bath.
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This painting would have been a damn sight better than the Sear’s catalog lingerie section that I had to resort to in the 1960’s…
If you ever go to see The Barnes Collection in Philadelphia (which I highly recommend), you’ll be amazed at the number of nudes. It seemed when you had private collectors gathering work rather than institutional ones like museums, you ended up with quite a few more bare breasts on display. Like, look at: https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6994/Models-(Poseuses)/ and https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5221/Woman-with-White-Stockings-(La-Femme-aux-bas-blancs)/ (you can click the “ensemble” tab to see their relative size and location in the collection.)
As a young teen (well before dial-up internet), I had quite the collection of department store lingerie catalogues, apparently my conservatively-raised mother had been primed to chastise me for keeping porn, so it was a bit hollow when she found the stash and said something like “I hope you try and find a woman with higher morals than this.” Fortunately the church schools I was educated in took a very broad view of sex ed, basically “tell ’em to wait, but we know they won’t wait long, so tell them everything they need to know when they can’t wait.” Funnily enough, proper comprehensive sex ed Does tend to lead to people waiting a bit longer.