Mr Gruts
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🕑 Added 2022-09-21 04:17:29 +0000 UTCKia ora my lovely Grutlings!
I was totally cruised by this beautiful thin 20-something while waiting for a bus. A shame I needed to go somewhere because he gave me those direct "f-me" eyes. I have absolutely no cruising game, so it was quite the event for me. Drew this picture inspired by him afterwards. Didn't really capture his likeness, but still came out kinda hot.
In other news I contributed to a Dazed magazine article which you can read here :
I had written a bit more, so I'm just posting the my full contribution below after the prompt :
Could provide a short statement about how winning affected your art making, and how you feel about the current state/culture of erotic art? Especially how you deal with the kind of censorship many artists face on social media
My aim is to illustrate how fun sex can be between expressive and flawed individuals. While recently artists have been able to proliferate through online social spaces, there is still a stigma associated with artists who depict erotically charged images. Some of humanities most ancient artefacts are examples of erotic art. Despite this, it is still considered a highly controversial subject which is only permissible through narrow fields of expression. During the subsequent ages where purity politics took the forefront of policy, sexuality itself has been weaponised to pressure individuals into certain heteronormative conformities. Even now in pop culture sexual imagery is still primarily realised through the exploitation of gaunt women’s bodies, their passive face directed at the viewer as they drift in a dreamlike unobtainable airbrushed languidity. That’s why The Tom of Finland Foundation’s Emerging Erotic Artist is such an important event. Through their promotion of erotic art as an integral legitimate art form which expands across a range of styles, they’re rewriting the narrative that erotic art isn’t shameful or limited to so-called degenerates & deviants. Becoming the grand prize winner catapulted my otherwise unremarkable career in the arts. I had built upon a career as a genre artist often depicting battle-ready characters. Today, I work exclusively on erotic material. It says much about our contemporary society that fantasy images depicting instruments of death, conflict and wartime misery are standard. I think it would benefit present society if our harmless innate desires were celebrated in place of performative aggression. It’s certainly a lot easier to wank to.
Anyway, I'm sure you wonderful Grutlings aren't here so much for writing about society's relationship with erotic art 😅 I'm working on the POTM which is looking particularly delicious at the moment! Hopefully will be with you soon.
Thank you for your kind contribution 🙏
Comments
Mr Gruts
Well said! I know I might be preaching to the choir on here, but discussion about pornography still feels like one of those extremely polarizing topics with people (when it ever is discussed in a reasonable manner). I think it has a lot to do with how people equate all pornography as the same. This proves especially problematic when it's all lumped in with mainstream heterosexual porn & it's power imbalances. An article got published a few days later which put the case forward more eloquently than I ever could (check out that provoking title! 😄) : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/02/what-have-we-learned-from-50-years-of-studying-porn-heterosexuality-is-essentially-broken
Thedudewhosadude
Hold up! We're all here for the erotic art, and so it's ESSENTIAL we have an understanding about our relationship as a larger society with porn! Porn cannot by nature be apolitical, for reasons the article itself outlines! ESPECIALLY those judging from a moral high ground have their own relationship with what turns them on, they're just more private about it. Versus, if we could all just accept it for the normalcy it is, we'd all be in a better spot!
