Woman Creates 3-D Erotic Book For the Blind 113
Lisa J. Murphy has written an erotic book with tactile images for that special visually impaired porn connoisseur in your life. Tactile Mind contains explicit softcore raised images, along with Braille text and photos. From the article: "A photographer with a certificate in Tactile Graphics from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Murphy learned to create touchable images of animals for books for visually impaired children. Then she realized that there was a lack of such books for adults only. 'There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults, at least the last time I looked around,' says Murphy. 'We're breaking new ground. Playboy has [an edition with] Braille wording, but there are no pictures.' She says that while we live in a culture saturated with sexual images, the blind have been 'left out.'"
Re:Erotic Braille (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Is that picture supposed to be erotic? (Score:3, Insightful)
It really seems creepy if the blind perceive faces that way.
Eh.
Leaving aside the fact that I'm pretty sure they don't (just try touching a face and it will not "look" like that), what we perceive and look as beautiful things are just what we know or have heard of. It's wonderful you would categorize them as "creepy".
Re:How does a blind person know what "sexy" means? (Score:3, Insightful)
Sex is an instinctive trait. Similarly, a person's attractiveness delves deeper than the eye can see or the (conscious) mind can perceive.
Ever wonder why some dudes that are BUTT ugly manage to get with drop-dead gorgeous women? Some of those guys know how to walk, talk and even radiate qualities that attract women in ways even they don't fully understand. Pick-up artists spend most of their practice tapping these "switches" to either (a) attract/seduce as many (preferably HOT) women as possible and/or (b) compensate for areas that would normally make them unattractive to most of them (like looks, lack of money, etc.). Women, in fact, practice the same "magic;" many are trained at much earlier ages from reading popular "girlie" magazines like Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. Us guys think those pages are full of fluff; women soak it up...and it works.
I'll keep this abridged and just link to Mystery's (Eric von Marcovik) [wikipedia.org] bio. This guy is a total nut, not that physically attractive and way the fuck detached from reality...but he can do practically whatever he wants with practically any woman he wants, anywhere0...and make them like it! (Disclaimer: I was "involved" in that community for a few months two years ago in the quest to fix a lot of personal social issues. No, I did not do the boot camps: way too much money. Yes, the basics did wonders for me.)
So what does this have to do with blind people (or people close to it)? Even though they, at worst case, may not "follow social norms" when it comes to physical attractiveness, that doesn't mean they don't know what "sexiness" is since the perception of "sexiness" is much deeper than our understanding can comprehend...
Obligatory example: My former girlfriend of four years (as in first, not only) had a friend who was blind, but was a total sexaholic. This girl LOVED having sex...but she was completely blind. Example deux: I had a brief stint with a woman who was almost completely blind as well, and she was way hornier than I was.