| The still image continues to have it's place in erotica. No matter how advanced film and video might get the photo will remain the highest quality image. Digital photography is so information-rich today that it offers uncanny sensitivity to color and almost microscopic level of detail. | | Back in the 1990s some folks started marketing "simple nude" internet sites, a less pornographic and more beauty oriented approach to online erotica. Domai.com led the way. Others followed. | | The "simple nude" was lovelier and more compelling than most porn images, but it had to be marketable so the genre quickly evolved into a version of the traditional pin-up, but with genitalia. (Whether a painting or a photograph, the traditional pin-up girl is looking the viewer dead in the eye, and always presenting herself to the viewer and thus never relaxed—sucked in gut, standing on tip-toes. And most of the sophisticated nude sites follow that formula. If I ran the world they would be even more natural—bare-footed girls in balanced stances not sucking in their gut and not looking right into the camera, but the marketplace has made it clear that the pin-up approach is what people desire.) | | All in all, these sites provide something far more beautiful than the run-of-the-mill, and I applaud that. | THIS AREA UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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