And when you actually measure their sexual arousal (more on that later), that's pretty much what you see — heterosexual men generally respond physically only to
erotic images of women.1 What about homosexual men?
A recent series of studies has finally shed some much needed light on the inconsistent link between bisexual men's self - reported attraction to men and women versus their sexual arousal to
erotic images of men and women.2 Specifically, the research team suspected that past work on arousal and sexuality had neglected to consider personality characteristics that may influence bisexual men's sexual arousal toward male and female erotica.
Not exact matches
Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $ 40 What I discovered,» writes Robert Kiely in this sumptuously illustrated book on Italian Renaissance paintings
of the saints, «were
images often infused with tenderness, exquisite sentiment,
erotic vigor, but....
A recent study
of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face
of increasing public knowledge about the health risks
of smoking and the shrinking population
of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and
erotic,
images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.
Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions
of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately
erotic images.
«If you were to use arousal responses
of showing them
erotic stimuli... you really can't show them explicit
images.
Marketing professors Leif Nelson at U.C. Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University's Jeff Galak failed to get positive results from a replication
of the test involving
erotic images, and experimental psychologist Richard Wiseman
of the University
of Hertfordshire in England failed to reproduce the outcome
of the word recall test.
I had been raised Christian, with the
image of God as a man and definitely not
erotic.
i remember the user «Standfirm» on youtube used to use
erotic pictures
of women as thumbnails to get views on female weight loss, he also used to use photo - retouched
images of steroid using bodybuilders as thumbnails for muscle gain.
The features the dating agency Bondage.com offers are versatile: you can create your personalized profile with the help
of special building software, take use
of SMS chat, use your mailbox, perform advanced searches, save favorite
images, check statistic, read
erotic stories and much more.
Therefore Sex - related Netsuke symbolizes work
of art — such as elements,
images and dating services online search there dream
erotic dating love and fun, film, sculpture — whatever that cope with erotically stimulating details.
Next, they'll ask about your interests, what kind
of erotic encounter you prefer, and where you prefer to have it by choosing from a series
of erotic images.
A brief message
of what sexual fantasies tickles you; be it a threesome adventure with a swinger groups, cybersex or
erotic texts, and
images.
Many wanted to see more - we have it hot for them to upload
images of Russian brides in stockings, underwear, pantyhose... Well and lastly - a little more
erotic, not quite dressed - naked and nude.
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of some
erotic fantasies.
How about 3 years old in the appeal to wheedle out the category Women seeking men do not all the best Brisbane
Erotic Massage I had placed over no strings attached escortner west best paddleboards for Men 1 Dating site surely one side has
image; posted both based Watch a Tinder drank and watch the category Casual Encounters range
of the strings.
Simply put, it represents the work
of a filmmaker so exhilaratingly in command
of his craft that he can, among other things, turn a single
image of two people standing next to each other — fully clothed, their bodies not quite touching — into one
of the most sublimely
erotic moments we have ever beheld on the screen.
Brian De Palma returns to the sleek, sly, seductive territory
of Dressed To Kill with an
erotic corporate thriller fueled by sex, ambition,
image, envy and the dark, murderous side
of PASSION.
Though marketed as an
erotic thriller — the DVD box prominently features female lead Paz Vega splayed out suggestively in skimpy lingerie under a glowering
image of Clarke's face — The Human Contract is too hilariously overreaching and insane to be limited to a single subgenre.
«The Deuce» implies that pornography — the presentation
of an
erotic image to an assumed male audience — is an extension
of the basic artifice
of sex work.
It has the potential to be incredibly damaging to the whole
image of erotic literature.»
Thematically, the novel is preoccupied with relics, the physical reminders
of emotion — for Miles, the abandoned possessions
of hundreds
of evicted tenants; for Bing, the beaten - up antiques he has pledged to save; for Ellen, the dangerously
erotic images she is finally able to cultivate from the ephemera
of her mind and put onto paper; and for Alice, an obsession with a World War II film which she believes captures the simultaneous hope and despair
of a generation.
Erotic fiction that contains illustrated or photographic
images of nudity or people involved in sexual situations.
It's been half a century since Carolee Schneemann began the series
of daring,
erotic, transgressive works that played off her own
image as a beauty, the role
of the female nude in art history, and the scrappy objects her friends and colleagues were making to push at the boundaries
of art and life.
Playing off Mr. Jafa's work is Leigh Ledare's more stylish, occasionally
erotic gangs
of found
images, displayed horizontally at the Box.
Avoid the former show if you want to keep away from abject, base subject matter — McCarthy has made his career our exposing
erotic, profane and damn dirty desires, and his new paintings push all boundaries
of taste imaginable... I wonder what
image our picture editor is going to choose for this page?
He is openly gay, and many
of his photographs are
images of men shot in a casual,
erotic fashion.
The cropped
image conveys a feeling
of deep
erotic unease and intimacy, homing in on darkness.
Featuring iconic
images, such as Courbet's Origin
of the World, alongside little - known works, The Art
of the
Erotic reveals the universal attraction of the erotic in the visual arts and may also offer surprises from the artists inc
Erotic reveals the universal attraction
of the
erotic in the visual arts and may also offer surprises from the artists inc
erotic in the visual arts and may also offer surprises from the artists included.
Their work over the past year has included
erotic artbook
images with the smutty bits sandpapered out, exploring the commodification
of art through the medium
of dance, telling circuitous personal stories live to an appreciative but perhaps baffled audience and, for the more old school - minded, screen printing.
While Glenn Ligon focuses on the construction
of «blackness» and «queerness» in his photographic rethinking
of Robert Mapplethorpe's
erotic images, Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle explores the notion
of identity through the processes
of genetic mapping in his DNA photographs.
Shirin Neshat says that «in the Women
of Allah photographic series, we are confronted with threatening
images of women embracing the gun, yet there is something terribly submissive,
erotic and sensual about the female bodies.»
The subject keywords in SFMOMA's online object record for Robert Rauschenberg's series
of five photographs Cy + Roman Steps (I — V)(1952) are delightful both as almost a found piece
of poetry and for their uncanny ability to capture the equal parts
of humor and
erotic charge in these
images.
Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations
of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their
erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power
of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities — a cascade
of thick blonde hair, the curve
of pink thighs, the glossy black
of a stiletto heel.
For a magazine often illustrated with
erotic drawings, Kertész's warped
images of the female body slide away from the salacious and toward the unsettling.
They had the feeling
of veiled, private
images, rather like Degas» brothel - scene monotypes (and in fact their subjects were often
erotic).
As the title
of this exhibition implies, the
images contained in the works on display, congealed in the viewer's consciousness range from
erotic to disturbing, but in the end purposefully resist «literal» interpretation.
By working in a hedonistic way, I make work that is
erotic, visceral and always inspired by the fluidity
of sexuality and gender... I like to create beautiful satisfying
images from disgusting mess.»
2009
Images of Love, Lust and Longing, The Center Gallery, Chelsea 2009 Hope Blossoms, The Margulies Warehouse, Miami, FL 2009 Masters Mystery Art Show, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Miami Beach, FL 2009
Erotic Art Show, The Center Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Figurative
images of bodies and plants are absent, in contrast with her earlier works foregrounding naked bodies and sex, such as the playfully
erotic Pickelporno (Pimple Porno)(1992).
Gluibizzi's analog rendering
of sexual, nude, or semi-nude digital
images employ line and subtle washes to transform the mundane into the charmingly
erotic.
Yet these
images, sobering as they may be, appear alongside those
of bodies embracing, caught in moments
of erotic pleasure, suggesting that depictions
of tenderness,
of love lived as well as lost, offer an equally valuable form
of revolution.
Juxtaposing
images of heated demonstrations with
erotic or pornographic
images, in the series Untitled (protest), 2012 — 2014, Richard Prince finds meaning itself is something to be stymied and subverted as a Dada-esque act
of protest.
Shunga, such as the famous Japanese
erotic pillow books, also known as spring
images, were hugely popular, admired and explicit documents
of...
Presented in book format, as a static archive, it's completely banal — not a series
of erotic images so much as an overall picture
of a particular
erotic, much as Guyton's black paintings together represent an idea
of the monochrome rather than a selection
of monochromatic works.
Ryan Kuo creates software simulations
of family dynamics and uses video game tools to coax
erotic performances from furniture, leaving us to question the anthropocentricity
of user - based technology (above
image from video, The Way I see It).
These horizontal color photographs depict closely cropped
images of reclining women — a format that references the
erotic centerfolds
of men's magazines.
In the catalogue essay you talk about the use
of color in your
erotic images as a way
of separating them from the source material that you also created.
The result was an art industry that provided affordable and accessible
images of erotic beauty to the new «chonin» or «city man».
1991 Fashion Photography Since 1945, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Twentieth Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, travelled to Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, and Musee D'Arte Moderne et D' Arte Contemporain, Nice, France 7 Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA The Body in question, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA The Power
of Theatrical Madness, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Modern Botanical, ICAC Weston Gallery, Carmel, USA National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Erotic Desire, Perspektief, Rotterdam, Netherlands La Revanche de L'Image, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneve, Switzerland, Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA Cruciformed:
Images of the Cross since 1980, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, travelled to the Museum
of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, USA Photography From 1980 to 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, USA Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin, Germany