Eroticism

[smtst5]

There is a sublime architecture in the way the body is constructed. Some called it the curse of the devil, others have fought wars over their respective Helens of Troy, still others kill, enslave themselves.

Whatever it is, no word need ever be spoken for this architecture to wrap you in its sorcery.View attachment 2558031
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The hollow between her collarbone is very sexy.

 

[softbird]

Silence is erotic. When she sits alone, smokes, by the open window, or in the shadowy recesses of hollow spaces, and watches you, the way she watches me.

 

[paddyboi]

I've often fallen in love with the backs of women, staring at them from across the street, or the room, or in a train carriage, where I steal glimpses of their necks, the small of their backs. And then I catch someone looking in my direction, and suddenly my body is alight.

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Very sensual. And b&w photography only adds to my increasing desire.

 

[Robbo694u]

Silence is erotic. When she sits alone, smokes, by the open window, or in the shadowy recesses of hollow spaces, and watches you, the way she watches me.

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Wow so erotic, love the smoke aspect like shapeshifting thoughts being exhaled from her mind ….

 

[softbird]

Light and Dark, the two shades of eroticism, but there is so much more in between.

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[softbird]

Very sensual. And b&w photography only adds to my increasing desire.

 

[lets_roll_12]

This thread is like a precious gift being gently given to the forum.

Thank you

 

[softbird]

Have you seen, on days when sunlight is soft and full of caresses, the arms of women you love, or desire from afar? Have you stopped and wondered how their arms came to be. All of creation worked to bring these arms to you.

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[Robbo694u]

Have you seen, on days when sunlight is soft and full of caresses, the arms of women you love, or desire from afar? Have you stopped and wondered how their arms came to be. All of creation worked to bring these arms to you.

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Like sensuous tendrils entwining or ensnaring, displaying their lithe beauty

 

[paddyboi]

This thread is like a precious gift being gently given to the forum.

Thank you

I totally agree

 

[softbird]

This thread is like a precious gift being gently given to the forum.

Thank you

 

[softbird]

I totally agree

 

[Victoria1]

Light and Dark, the two shades of eroticism, but there is so much more in between.

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Lovely sexy photographs with out being explicit. Who is the artist?

 

[GeppettoNoir]

I love this topic.

It reminds me of the differences between Eros and Beauty. I like to think that artful eroticism is the practice of walking that line.

Personally, I find suggestion and implication to be the most stimulating forms of eroticism. Imagine two pictures of the same girl giving a blowjob. Two different camera angles can make the difference between porn and erotica, in my opinion.

The pinnacle, to me, is when the artist can evoke emotions other than lust or desire through eroticism.

 

[softbird]

Lovely sexy photographs with out being explicit. Who is the artist?

It’s such a good question, but I have no idea. I’ll have to find out!

 

[Up4fun&69]

As a photographer, a painter, a writer, and a male, I agree with most everything said and shown here.
As a photographer, eroticism is some times harder to capture and elicit. While lighting and focus have a lot to do with the mood, people tend to see a photograph and take it literally.
As a painter, there's a lot more freedom in how an image or feeling is shown. The issue is that there's a bit more of the artist's feelings expressed in how that image is painted...color choices, realistic versus more impressionistic, etc.
As a writer, I think that the art of eroticism is at its best because the writer can express a scene through their eyes, but it's ultimately the reader who decides what's erotic and to what degree based on how they read the material through the filter of the knowledge, experience, and desires.
And as a male, well, the mystery, the hint of lies beneath the clothes and the skin, the feeling behind the eyes or the smile. That's unknown but desire to find out is eroticism in real life.
Just my two cents worth.

 

[Robbo694u]

Lovely sexy photographs with out being explicit. Who is the artist?

I think the artist is a digital creator called Pai Lam

 

[Robbo694u]

I think the artist is a digital creator called Pai Lam

....according to good ol Google that is, nothing to do with my knowledge of artistic matters

 

[000777]

I am particularly fond of women in lingerie and find it extremely erotic. Also I find B&W photography very sensual.
The lingerie they choose to wear, the pose, the attitude and look and sensual personality that come across. So hypnotic and alluring. My wife Kim, and I wasn't the photographer.
https://i.ibb.co/hxGbPPgb/Kimbw.jpg

 

[softbird]

As a photographer, a painter, a writer, and a male, I agree with most everything said and shown here.
As a photographer, eroticism is some times harder to capture and elicit. While lighting and focus have a lot to do with the mood, people tend to see a photograph and take it literally.
As a painter, there's a lot more freedom in how an image or feeling is shown. The issue is that there's a bit more of the artist's feelings expressed in how that image is painted...color choices, realistic versus more impressionistic, etc.
As a writer, I think that the art of eroticism is at its best because the writer can express a scene through their eyes, but it's ultimately the reader who decides what's erotic and to what degree based on how they read the material through the filter of the knowledge, experience, and desires.
And as a male, well, the mystery, the hint of lies beneath the clothes and the skin, the feeling behind the eyes or the smile. That's unknown but desire to find out is eroticism in real life.
Just my two cents worth.

Thank you for your two cents. I’m a reader and sometime writer, but while I think you’re right, and in keeping with Stanley Fish’s Reader response theory, that the reader makes the erotic happen, I think language has the capacity to exude eroticism, if done right.

In the spirit of the thread’s focus on eroticism, I’d like to share an excerpt of Angela Carter’s Lady of the House of Love:
“Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, through her, projects a baleful posthumous existence; she counts out the Tarot cards, ceaselessly construing a constellation of possibilities as if the random fall of the cards on the red plush tablecloth before her could precipitate her from her chill, shuttered room into a country of perpetual summer and obliterate the perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit. ‘Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?’ She draws her long, sharp fingernail across the bars of the cage in which her pet lark sings, striking a plangent twang like that of the plucked heartstrings of a woman of metal. Her hair falls down like tears.”

I consider this very erotic, and yes, I’ve imbued my own proclivities into the reading, but her language, is oh so adorable, designed to make you melt!

 

[softbird]

I am particularly fond of women in lingerie and find it extremely erotic. Also I find B&W photography very sensual.
The lingerie they choose to wear, the pose, the attitude and look and sensual personality that come across. So hypnotic and alluring. My wife Kim, and I wasn't the photographer.
https://i.ibb.co/hxGbPPgb/Kimbw.jpg

That is so gorgeous!! Oh my!!

 

[softbird]

....according to good ol Google that is, nothing to do with my knowledge of artistic matters

Good enough for me!

 

[bws1]

Silhoettes take light away, but they add vision, erotic vision. Movement itself is a mark of being, or essence. The fluid cadence is like soft kisses down the flank of your torso

One of the things I love about using shadows and silhouettes is that they leave just enough to the viewers imagination, to give the illusion of nudity, and for me that just heightens the eroticism a lot! And you nailed it with respect to b&w photography. Along with the sensuality, to me it seems to add so much more raw emotion to the image.

 

[000777]

That is so gorgeous!! Oh my!!

Thank you!

 

[bws1]

Up4fun, you nailed it, you have to be painfully aware of your lighting, lens selection, pose of the model(s) and the statement or emotion you're trying to convey to the viewer. If the photographer isn't mindful of all those variables a beautiful image winds up looking like a snap shot.