I’m sometimes asked in interviews (and parties when people find out I look at porn for a living) if I’m burnt out on porn, or if I just hate it now, or if I can even look at it at all anymore. It’s true there have been times when I’ve gotten maxed out on it — like when working on the Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn I didn’t pace myself and just watched stacks and stacks of all kinds of porn, from the truly awful to the really yummy. Gorging myself on porn didn’t make me hate porn or sex, or make me need “harder stuff” to get off — nor did it turn me on. It just made me want to not look at porn for a bit. I needed to cleanse my palate.
Now I know how to pace myself when looking at porn for work, and I set aside the stuff I like for private, off the clock use later (though I’ll admit sometimes I find it helpful to blend work with play). But since most of what I look at now is on my computer — web, text and DVD porn — I like to give my girlpornbrain a rest, often by mixing up the (typically tired, old, boring barbie-like) explicit mainstream porn visuals I consume with erotic art. For this I have a small but satisfying sex/art linklist on which to rest my porn weary eyes, and I often discover some really incredible, inspiring psychopathological, hothot, and even shocking erotic imagery. My friend Jonathon sent me a new one yesterday, making me want to cull a few reliable favorites from my linklist:
Sex in Art * Art Nudes * Art at Large: Featured Artists * sexblo.gs * fluffy Lychees * Shooting Gallery * Sex? or not * everyday nakedness * sexe, love ‘n gaudriole (image via) * concept junkies * ALTphotos * deviant art
