Because of the sources, where stories are posted in sections, some parts of some stories are missing. All these stories and pictures are intended as a supplement to the personal statement on pornography. Enjoying them as pornography, and not just as academic illustrations, is fine, that is how the directory, with its pictures, is set up; but this is not intended as an stand-alone pornography site, and I would prefer that it not be linked directly from elsewhere on the Internet (bookmarks are not links).
Wading through an academic discussion is one way to prevent underage persons from finding this directory -- not that anyone, including some underage, is likely to care much about print pornography anymore anyway. There is too much, and too much that is so graphic, readily available on line. This gets parodied in South Park.
The stories start out fairly mild and get into stronger bondage, S&M, and even some mutilation and torture. Overall, these gravitate towards the sexual slavery theme originally examined in the Anne Rice novels previously discussed, with major variations towards "femdom" and forced feminization themes, which often figure in male sexual slavey stories. Since a lot of bondage scenarios seem boring and absurd, I am intrigued that the idea of bondage in itself is representative of sexual desire, longing, and the helpless drive of sexuality, which overwhelms the will and judgment. This explains the hostility for it in expressions of anhedonic and anaesthetic religion (e.g. Iran) and politics (e.g. the Orwellian "Anti-Sex League").
The background photograph here is of Aria Giovanni, centerfold from the September 2000 Penthouse magazine [pp.94-107]. Almost all the images in the pages are drawings rather than photographs, to avoid legal questions about their origin. The law now allows even child pornography when these are artificial creations rather than photography -- not that there is anything of the sort at this site. As it happens, even the drawings here tend to antedate the turn of the Century, or even the 1990's. The large image above on this page is from a sculpture on an Indian temple. Such images get to be pretty explicit, and classical Indian women's dress is surprisingly explicit in itself. Below is a photo of something neither a real person nor a drawing, a "Tanya" doll from "RealDoll," which makes realistic, full sized, and extremely expensive sex toys. These have gotten more realistic over the years. The RealDoll used in the movie Lars and the Real Girl [2007] was not up to current standards.
The age of these selections is mainly a consequence of my loss of interest in such material since the 1990's. With advancing age, I tend to see pornography more in aesthetic rather than sexually "prurient" terms -- where I have always taken the negative sense of the latter term as part of anhedonic moralism. Also, if written pornography is badly written, it will just be boring, or offend in other ways. The sequel to Anne Rice's "Beauty" books, Beauty's Kingdom [2015], I have so far found unreadable.
While genitals are commonly called "uglies," I am intrigued by the contrast between pornography that seems to live up, or down, to that term and other treatments where explicit sex seems as beautiful as anything else about the human body. Since the internet is now dense with porn sites, like "Pornhub," it is not difficult to find beautiful treatments of sexuality and intercourse, and the opposite. Images of beautiful bodies copulating was something that almost seemed about to become mainsteam in the 1970's, but then the culture retreated. Even some of the beautiful nude images in Altered States, especially of Blair Brown, not at all pornographic, were edited out shortly after the film's release.
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