
ABOUT THIS SITE:
Consider the photo at left. What is it?
Is it art?
Is it erotica?
Is it porn?
What distinguishes these labels? Is just a matter of craft, or of content? Or is it something more, something perhaps beyond the fact of the image itself?
Suppose there was a caption under it inviting you to call a 900 number to hear "2 hot babes get off!!!"? What would it be then?
Suppose I told you that the woman lying there was so moved by the sight of her lover's face between her thighs that she asked for the camera and I gave it to her? Suppose I could show the glow of her soul as her lover made love to her; as she silently put a finger to her eye, to her heart, to her lover's breast - a tactile rebus as eloquent as any poem . . .
What is it now?
This site is about the answer to that question — to the extent that it is answerable — about images that transcend the labels - and the boundaries - of "art", "erotica", and "porn." It is about a true erotic portrait that is revealing of the character, perhaps even something of the soul, of the person being depicted. That is what I am striving for in the material presented on this site. Please let know if you think I am succeeding.
C. Owen Johnson
March 2004
|