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.'"
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I feel sick.
So when does the Jennifer Lopez "feelie" come out? ;-)
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Usually after three beer.
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So when does the Jennifer Lopez "feelie" come out? ;-)
Usually after three beer.
Don't forget the tacos and burritos!
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wooshmodded! (That being my term for when someone makes a response to a funny or sarcastic post, misses the point, and in fact restates the joke more obvious or the point without sarcasm, and gets modded higher for it. It seemed important when I started explaining this...)
i don't understand what you are trying to say (Score:2)
but i'm going to assume the error in not understanding is yours, not mine, and i'm going reach for the most radical interpretation of what you are trying to say, and then i'm going to take it very seriously, and then i'm going to get very angry
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"Mmmmm... This book is deep"
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Master Robin!
You've lost your arms in the war! ...But you grew some nice boobs.
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Thank you for reminding me of that film! I laughed tears when I saw it the first time as a child!
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I hope she skips the goatse 3D pictorial.... even for the Blind, once something has been 'touched' it can't be 'untouched'.
Oh, they know to stay away! How else do you think they went blind in the first place?
Which raises the question, if seeing Goatse blinds you, what does feeling it do?
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Which raises the question, if seeing Goatse blinds you, what does feeling it do?
Turns you into a paraplegic, obviously.
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Is pentaplegic a word?
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Turns you into a paraplegic, obviously.
I'm paraplegic you insensitive clod... ;)
[I actually am and I'd rather stay in the chair than lose my sight.]
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This reminds me of a stupid idea I thought of once: A Braille monitor!
I could imagine it now, a blind person moving their fingers across the screen, saying "There are two girls and a cup AARRGH AARRGH AARRGH AARRGH!!!"
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Gee, thanks. Now I can't help but think that touching it worse than looking at it.
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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.
Wait ... so the target audience is furries? Please, no.
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Re:Sculptures (Score:5, Funny)
that's what i kept telling that museum security guard but he just wouldn't listen
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One word: Staples (Score:4, Funny)
They had to withdraw it - too many teenagers were injuring themselves on the centerfold staples.
How would you find them by LOOKING??? Duh!
Re:One word: Staples (Score:4, Funny)
'We're breaking new ground. Playboy has [an edition with] Braille wording, but there are no pictures.'
They had to withdraw it - too many teenagers were injuring themselves on the centerfold staples.
Maybe that was intentional. Playboy without the pictures, just the articles? I'd rather impale my finger on a staple read than Norman Mailer's latest clap-trap about his waning libido.
(This Simpson's reference probably would have been funnier before 2007, or were Norman Mailer still alive.)
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Uuum, excuse me, you nerds, but isn’t that what people are for?? ^^
I mean blind-on-blind petting definitely will involve the most erotic petting ever.
I'm surprised... (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory SMBC (Score:1, Funny)
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Is that picture supposed to be erotic? (Score:1)
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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)
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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".
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FTFA (don't kill me—I read the article because the picture had no nose or mouth and weird eyes, which had to have a reason):
A male torso from Tactile Mind; the Braille message is informational more than lyrical — he wears a mask, he has a muscular bare chest ...
So, it's not supposed to look or feel like a face.
But it's creepy.
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That's why I used "seems" there; wondering about possibly unsettling (if they would be quite directly brought over) differences in perception. What's wrong with that?
Besides, how are you so certain? You can't just from touching your face or face of somebody who deeply trusts you (which would be the case, you don't have any "excuse" to do that to somebody who isn't quite close) - you not only know that you can go very far in this case, you also have preconcieved concept of how a face looks like.
BTW, beauty i
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gimp hood?
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Might be wrong, but... (Score:1)
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Re:Erotic Braille (Score:4, Insightful)
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I though the joke was Q: "What are the bumps on the areolae for?"
It is. And the answer is "It's braille for 'Kiss here'."
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They don't like to be called that.
It's been around (Score:1)
Mel Brooks got there first. (Score:5, Informative)
Mel Brooks got there first, with the blind servant's "reading material" in Robin Hood, Men In Tights.
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Mel Brooks got there first, with the blind servant's "reading material" in Robin Hood, Men In Tights.
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Shown in this (bad) clip at 1:21. [youtube.com]
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Better clip here.
'You've lost your arms in battle! But you've grown a nice pair of boobs...'
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The link would be helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inyhzOv_LQ
anon to avoid the 2-hour delay between comments...
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It only makes you blind dude, not ...what was that again...
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Movies for the blind (Score:1)
Speaking of blind people and movies, does anyone know of DVD's (or Blu-rays) for movies other than Moulin Rouge which specifically cater to the blind? For those not familiar with it, the Moulin Rouge DVD has a soundtrack for the blind, where a narrator describes what's happening in the movie.
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There is a version of T2 which includes audio for the visually impaired. Quite entertaining actually.
You Shouldn't Encourage Obsessions (Score:5, Funny)
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Every body knows masturbation leads to blindness, so, now, she's gonna push these people even further.
Who knows, maybe it wraps around and they'll be able to see again!
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Who knows, maybe it wraps around and they'll be able to see again!
... from behind!
If you are going to bother... (Score:1)
Oblig. Men in Tights (Score:2, Funny)
Blinkin: Oh Master Robin! You lost your arms in battle! But you grew some nice boobs.
Robin Hood: Blinkin, I'm over here.
Playboy is working on a special tactile issue (Score:4, Funny)
It will consist of a 3D pictorial of Jennifer Love Hewitt, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek and Christina Hendricks from Mad Men.
Trouble is, it's about a meter thick...
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And On This Day, Several Years Ago; (Score:2)
Interesting... I use my hands too (Score:2)
Braille Playboy (Score:2)
My friend actually has one! Apparently the Library of Congress makes them as a service for blind people. The thing was just 1/3 of one issue and it was like 3 inches thick! You can get 'em on ebay (or probably from the government, but ebay is easy enough).
-Taylor
"Hands on" pornography? (Score:2)
There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults, at least the last time I looked around
Har har har. You couldn't resist the pun, eh? Thanks. -- The Blind.
Re:"Hands on" pornography? (Score:4, Funny)
Blind man walks into department store, reaches down and grabs his Labrador retriever by the hind legs and starts swinging it in a wide circle over his head.
Clerk: "what are you doing??!!"
Blind Man: "Don't mind me, I'm just looking around"
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Maybe this will sell some 3-D printers.
MORE PICTURES (Score:1)
http://www.tactilemindbook.com/ [tactilemindbook.com]
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
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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)
I know this might shock a slashdotter (Score:2)
Uncle Bob can tell little Johnny that girls with big boobs are hot, but if Johnny can't see boobs, then how will he know what that even means*?
This might shock you, but some people do manage to touch boobies in their life time. (They are called girls, doesn't seem fair really).
So they can feel that big boobies are hotter. The extra friction when moving around heats them up. That is what you mean by hotter right?
Sex on slashdot, the king of oxymorons.
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Have you actually smelled a woman's private bits? If you thought the NYC subway smelled bad, wait 'til you hook up with some chicks at a bar. Whoa.
Some pussy smells can make you tolerate anything afterward.
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Perhaps you should set your sights a little higher than bar skanks with a yeast infection.
Or incorporate mixed showering in your foreplay.
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I've done both of those things. I was just throwing that out there, though.
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Oh, someone has. It was Larry Flynt, of course.
The August 1977 Centerfold [zinegirls.com] [mildly NSFW] was a scratch-and-sniff feature. The cover had a "Surgeon General" white box stating, WARNING: To be smelled in the privacy of your home. Not to be smelled by minors.
Fortunately, according to Wikipedia, it smelled more like lilacs than labia... can you imagine collecting enough pussy juice to scent 2 million copies [thepaincomics.com] [very NSFW]?
(I remember finding a copy when I was about 15. It was three years old by then, and the sme
Boon for the virgins (Score:2)
because -blind or not- they can actually feel a titty without that pesky interaction with a woman!
Did I miss something? (Score:1, Troll)
Why a troll simply because he doesn't get art? (Score:2)
This is NOT a real product for blind people. It is a way to use art to point out something in our world that we don't think about. A comedian would use a joke.
I seriously doubt any blind person would buy this for stimulation. It is just a way to look at the world from a different perspective.
This guy is not a troll, he just hasn't got the joke.
Any Pop-up Books? (Score:2)
http://www.amazon.com/Nutcracker-Classic-Collectible-Pop-Up/dp/0689832850/ref=cm_lmf_tit_7 [amazon.com]
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I would comment... (Score:2, Funny)
but, I simply won't touch this.
-Hack
More Images (Score:2)
You know what else is lacking? (Score:1)
Certified Tactile Couch Surfer (Score:2)
A photographer with a certificate in Tactile Graphics from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
I hate to poke fun at these serious handicaps, but does one really need to be certified to be able to turn image outlines into crude heightmaps ? Do the people making those raised letters on book covers hold a degree in tactile typography ?
FFS, we did this sort of thing in kindergarten. Chicky needs to get a real job. You want tactile porn ? Go to a strip club. Even blind people can enjoy tits in their face.
robin hood men in tights (Score:1)
Picture caption (Score:2)
FWIW, the Braille caption of the picture says "m]ale torso in a cold cement". (The "m" is not in the picture frame and I'm inferring it.)
Nobody saw this coming... (Score:4, Funny)
Bas Relief (Score:1)
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase.
Porn For The Blind (Score:2)
There's already the hilarious pornfortheblind.org [pornfortheblind.org].
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Come on Man. It is important news for NERDS.