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God's Own Country (2017): Mud, Cold, and Something Real
God's Own Country arrived in the same year as Call Me by Your Name, and the comparison was immediate and instructive. Both films are about a young...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...
BoysDo vs Flickr: The Archive and the Living Feed
Erotic Art vs Erotic Photography: The Lens and the Hand
Tom of Finland drew men who did not exist. Robert Mapplethorpe photographed men who did. Both produced images of the male body with erotic intent, bot...
Fine Art Nude vs Erotic Photography: Where the Gallery Ends and the Platform Begins
The fine art nude is one of the oldest subjects in Western art. From ancient Greek sculpture to Renaissance painting to twentieth-century photography,...
Artistic Nudity vs Erotic Content: Is the Body Naked or Nude?
Kenneth Clark, the art historian, drew a distinction in his 1956 study The Nude that has been repeated and debated ever since. "To be naked," he wro...
BoysDo vs xVideos: The Other Largest Tube Site
BoysDo vs VSCO: The Photographer's App That Won't Let You Show Your Best Work
Editorial Erotic Photography vs User-Generated Content: Curation Is the Product
The internet's default position on content is volume. More is better. More choices, more content, more upload slots, more storage, more everything. Th...
Why Tumblr Banned Erotic Content — and What It Cost Everyone
On December 17, 2018, Tumblr destroyed something that had taken a decade to build. With a single policy update — a blanket ban on all adult content,...