May 15th, 2025 -- by Bacchus
Interactive Art Exhibit: Kinky Edition
ErosBlog has commented on many occasions on the thin line between porn and fine art. We are fortunate for it, too; artistic merit and redeeming social value is the slender reed that has kept pornographers out of prison (mostly) for most of the last fifty years. I don’t think live bondage bondage exhibits will be popping up in boring art museums near you any time soon, but the objections are more pragmatic than artistic, I’d argue:
I don’t have an artist’s or photographer’s credit for this image, sadly; it circulated widely on Tumblr about ten years ago but only the faintest traces remain on today’s heavily-redacted search engine memories of that time.
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In that posture she won’t be interactive for very long even with help from the crop and excellent muscle tone. I think I prefer the fantasy of the sex party you shared with a nude fondleable guest and things like “what a trooper” written on her with lipstick. (Looks like Please Draw On Me).
Vagans, I’ve linked your comment to the post in question. Thank you — the taxonomical and conceptual challenges of picking the perfect 5-10 posts to include in my “similar sex blogging” link list below each post based on nothing but my faded memory of 7,000 posts plus a few keyword searches means that it’s disturbingly common for something that would make a much better companion link to not make it. This is a fine example; it’s taxonomically non-obvious but conceptually a great companion link.
And, yeah, your “won’t be interactive for very long” was what I was getting at with my “pragmatic objections” remark. Bondage is fun but any kind of stressful position goes sour super fast even without the addition of additionally stressful stimuli.
I’m reminded of a performance art piece I heard about many years ago, in which the artist sat in a gallery somewhere and each visitor to the gallery was invited to cut off a piece of her clothing (sewing scissors were provided).
That seems like a position that even someone athletic can endure for minutes not hours, after which she would probably like either a chance to show how grateful she is for being let down, or a reminder that the first position had some advantages (communication is sexy especially before you gag someone in a stress position).
It looks like bondee in the original post was wearing a tasteful garterbelt and a cardboard baseball visor so calling her nude was false advertising.
Didn’t think that you can’t use plugins to suggest similar posts, is it because this is a sex blog?
I recall seeing several of similar images posted on Tumblr (back when Tumblr was good) coming from a London based photography group which often composed multiplayer tableaux to evoke a narrative. And yes, it’s been a few years since I’ve seen any new releases
Vagans I do use a plugin. It’s just that the plugin has very few features and stopped being maintained in, like, 2008 or so. The new plugins offer a ton of automation and whiz-bangery but not a one of them (that I’ve looked at) offer the direct control over which posts appear that I “need” (demand).
Potomacker, I have similar vestiges of memory. There are a lot of erotic art things that had a web footprint and a moment in the social media sunshine and that are *almost* completely gone from cultural memory due to the combination of the Tumblr porn-wipe and Google’s extreme reluctance to admit that it has any porn in its crawled pages. If anything ever happens to the Internet Archive, the last chance to find any of this stuff will be completely gone. This is why I’m such a nut about providing complete provenance, when I can find it. On a good day I’ll stumble across an image, reverse image search it, find a dozen references to old Tumblrs that aren’t there any more, search them all up in the Internet Archive until I find one of them with a little bit of explanatory metadata, do some additional searching, and maybe find an oldweb link that itself is in the Archive. But increasingly I’m finding images like this, where the only remaining spoors are Google hits in images sites that were themeselves mostly just Tumblr scrapers. All the metadata is gone, most of the Tumblr links are gone, nothing that remains points at the original oldweb sources. Probably there was a website, possibly it’s cached somewhere in the Internet Archive, but the Wayback Machine is not (yet, and perhaps never to be) organically searchable, so there’s no way to hunt it down. It’s… frustrating. But not so very many of us care, and there’s an argument to be made that caring is eccentric, so.
Z, you may be thinking of Marina Abramovic’s Rhythm 0, and that one was far worse than you remember. She laid up a number of objects, including a gun, with instructions that people could do whatever they wanted. Look it up on wikipedia.
Imagine my disappointment on realising that all your talk of ‘plugins’ refers to the blog part of sexblog rather than the sex.
The moment I saw this post I was immediately reminded of my favourite Erosblog headline: Art Keeps Getting In My Porn.
Many a keen hope has been dashed upon the rocks that divide “talking nerdy” and “talking dirty”…
I am trying to find a post, probably by you, with a frontal view of a feisty and athletic young woman with black hair in wooden standing stocks with a blue and black dungeon in the background. That would be more feasible for a show although it might not be this bondee’s exact fantasy. Will check one more hard drive later.
‘Twas the gorgeous Jamie Huxley and it looks like the keyword was “pillory” here and on KinkyDelight
Vagans, you have a good memory.
I challenge anyone who likes women to see that photo and not think of rescuing Ms. Huxley and/or making her talk and/or just appreciating the situation.
Some of us are heroes, some of us are villains, some of us are aesthetes. We all want to be in the room…