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Porn is Art

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In keeping in line with my fundamental view of art being that
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Art has no definition.

I see many stamps around this site saying PORN IS NOT ART!!!!! PICTURES OF YOUR BREAST IS NOT ART!!!!! PICTURES OF YOUR BUTT IS NOT ART!!!

So I figured I would challenge some of these arrogant people that believe because it is not their personal style, or taste that that in of itself makes it not art… I will never get it but... here goes. As always, these words only speak for myself.. not anyone else

Who says? Be it a nude picture of a nicely done porn film I find the idea of someone else dictating what is or what is not art simply because it does not fit their personal sensitivities to be quite stupid.

Sure, from my perspective, porn is art, a picture of your breast can be very artistic, as it a nicely angled back shot.. you can take a picture of a rock and it can be art, a picture of an empty can… but when stills are now motion it is not art? … I see some pictures on here of nude couples that are engaging in what someone may say is sexual situations and seemingly full on sexual contact and for many who commented it is art.. yet put the same bodies, doing the same motions in movement and it becomes porn?

I am sure I may get a few whiners, HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT THIS IS ART BECAUSE IT VIOLATES MY SENSIBILITIES!!!! … who are you to say that it is not art?

For me, as the stamp suggests above of ART HAVING NO DEFINITION; Art is, by its very nature subjective… for some people they believe only something that they would accept as art is art and anything else is tasteless.

According to some of the arguments of the stamps I mentioned above about porn is not art, nudity is not art is that if it is anything more than intellectually stimulating then it cannot be art.

I personally do not take that view, I find nothing more pleasing or natural than the human form. I also know that not every considers a nude woman or a nude man to be art and if they do not like it, that is on them. I have seen many amazing drawings and photographs of nude bodies on this site and some were quite visually pleasing and sexually arousing… but does that make it not art because something as natural as nudity is considered bad by many people?

For many people they say anyone engaging in sex or a sexual act is not art… that automatically makes it porn hm.. google “porn art” you will see couples engaged in sexual art, usually black and white photos that I find to be quite artistic. On this site search “kitty porn” that is picture that a friend linked me to a few days ago that I found to be amazing.

There are many, such as me, who believe a brief moment of enjoyment, of two people sharing a passionate moment be it on film, or someone taking pictures at the right angle can be very artistic…as well as mentally and visually arousing…

Here is an image I found when googling:
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… that is a couple engaged in a sexual act, yet I find it very artistic.

I shall close this and saying as I said in the opening, Art has no definition, it is by its very nature subjective to interpretation. What is art to you may not be art to someone else, there are STILL people who do not believe photography is art and that art is only what you do with paint, pencils etc… For me, I enjoy all types of art, drawings, paintings, filming/cinematic art, photography, sculptures, digital art…. For me and a general definition of art, [OH NOES, YOU JUST SAID IT HAS NO DEFINITION, HYPOCRITE, EVIL FUCKER!!... :P] art can be whatever one uses to expires themselves in a creative way… I do not know what it is called exactly, but a few blocks away there are people who take old fences, old metal stripping etc and make great pieces of art with them…. Truly creative since I would never look at a fence and think.. if I removed the bars and bent them this way and that I could make a giant piece of art with it.


A few years ago I went to an art show where the focus of it was explicitly human sexuality, so most of the pictures depicted women performing oral on men, men performing oral on women… [as well as women on women and men on men… not for the squeamish], depicted couples having sex.. but was all done with cameras, yet in each corner of the room was a monitor which had couples engaging in adult fun… it was one of the best galleries I have been to.. since as stated, I find nothing more natural, or photographically stunning than the human body. There is nothing, for me, more mentally, intellectually or sexually arousing than to see the passion between two individuals in motion… which then touches back on my earlier point of the issue many have with it, does the fact that it can provoke sexual stimulation mean it is not art?.... who determines exactly what is and what is not art?

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There is a photo I found online, for many people they would say disgusting!!!!! For me, I find it quite beautiful… and to me, that is also art.

Question:
I let a friend [who is a lesbian] proofread this and she looked up at the picture above and asked me would I still think it is art if it were two men or two women… yes, for me it does not really matter, if you find a nude straight couple posing together to be artistic and beautiful yet a nude gay couple, or lesbian couple to be disgusting and morally wrong then you have only proven the point of it being subjective. I often joke that my Nikon is pansexual, in the past I have shot nude men, nude women, nude trans people, gay, straight and lesbian couples in sexual situations… and for me it is all about the angle, lighting, etc … so to each their own.

Here is snippets from a reply to comments below, to touch back on the, IF IT IS MEANT FOR AROUSAL OR SEXUAL PLEASING THEN IT IS NOT ART!!!!! here are a few things

This painting by Édouard-Henri Avril, Which depicts people engaged in sexual activity.
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Marquis de Sade drawing in his book Juliette upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

Das Liebespaar (The Lovers) by Peter Fendi
Which is a painting of two people engaged i in what seems to be the start of a sexual act.
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1815 painting from Japan, which depicts a couple engaged in sex
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Sunga Empire, dated 1 BCE, shows 1 man and two women engaged in a threesome
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510 BCE, Attica drinking cup
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Oil Lamp from Ancient Rome showing two males engaged in sex
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Roman Mural which depicts a bisexual threesome
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In many Roman parts, Pederasty was normal, which is a grown man having sex with a boy, usually his slave...
Here is a drinking glass which shows such depiction
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My personal favorite is, ART IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE MEANING!!!
.. says who? Meaning of course is subjective, if the person produced the work for the sheer enjoyment then that was their purpose, you as the viewer, give it your own damn meaning. It is like a good book, read 100 times, by 100 different people and each taking something different from it.

One of my favorite erotic artists is Ken Marcus who mostly does fetishist and B.D.S.M. photography… but that is not for everyone, and that is okay.



^^You can skip everything up there and basically the next few lines sum it up.
Art is by its very nature subjective, it will be viewed a million times, by a million people and each will have their own opinion on it. Some will think it sucks, some will find some profound meaning, some will think it is amazing…and some will have no feeling. Your personal view on something does not make that one view the universal truth of a thing…

… okay that is all, waits to call the WHAMBULANCE on someone who thinks only what they believe is art is so.

As always my dear comrades,
Let knowledge be that truth, which portrays humanity, condemns malevolence; that respects the differences in others while abandoning the hatred and misconceptions of the past.
-Emanon
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it is rape on tape.