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:Is that picture supposed to be erotic? (Score:3, Interesting)
It really seems creepy if the blind perceive faces that way.
Or...that example might be simply a case of practical approach; recognizing that the msin reason faces are detailed in "normal" naked photos is...because leaving it that way is the easiest thing to do ;p (while here there's some sculping involved)
Re:"Hands on" pornography? (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe this will sell some 3-D printers.
How does a blind person know what "sexy" means? (Score:3, Interesting)
Notice, I am not asking why a blind person would find these sexually arousing. I'm asking how the norms of what is and isn't hot would be established for someone with a limited sensory pool. It makes perfect sense to me that a blind man who's touched boobs before would get off on pretending he's touching boobs while stroking a curved... er... now I know why blind uncle Ted always strokes the arms of his chair like that...
* I assume, of course, that he doesn't go around feeling up everyone he meets in a brute-force attempt to uncover Uncle Bob's meaning
Re:Sculptures (Score:3, Interesting)
My father-in-law claims that he had touched art forms before and it didn't do anything for him. So, I'm skeptical about this. A pornographic braille book, on the other hand, seems more up their alley.
Yes, I have odd conversations with my in-laws. They are rather 'open'. Ugh. They say the only thing funnier (and louder) than blind people having sex is deaf people having sex.