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BoysDo vs xVideos: The Other Largest Tube Site
Erotic Photography vs Erotic Film: Why the Still Image Wins
Video has won. By almost every metric of consumption, attention, and platform dominance, moving images have defeated still images in the competition f...
Herb Ritts: The Classical Gaze
Herb Ritts photographed the male body the way other people photograph mountains — as something vast, elemental, shaped by forces larger than any indiv...
Queer Erotic Art vs Mainstream Erotic Photography: A Different Way of Seeing
Mainstream erotic photography has a default. The default is the heterosexual male gaze directed at the female body — the conventions, the postures, th...
BoysDo vs Instagram: The Funnel and the Destination
Softcore vs Pornography: Where the Line Is and Why It Moves
The word "softcore" arrived in the cultural vocabulary as a rating category — a way of describing adult content that stopped short of explicit sexual...
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...
Softcore vs Erotic Photography: The Same Thing, or Something Different?
Softcore and erotic photography are often used as synonyms. They are not quite the same thing, and understanding the difference — or rather, understan...
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...
Jack Pierson: Desire and Elegy
Jack Pierson makes photographs that feel like something you remember rather than something you saw. The light is a little overexposed. The composition...