Porn for the Blind
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There’s all manner of technology out there to help the visually impaired cope with their lack of eyesight. But there are certain aspects of life that technology has thus far failed to sufficiently address–pornography, for one. Lisa J. Murphy is looking to change things, single-handedly.
Earlier in the year, the Toronto-based artist gave the world Tactile Mind, a book featuring, essentially, images of naked people aimed at the blind. The images were raised, printed on thermoform plastic, the material used for Braille, letting blind people enjoy adult images with their fingertips.
Murphy is now offering up lingerie photos in a similar format, including descriptions in American English Braille. “I used the same process for this as I did before for my book,” the artist told AOL. “I took photographs of my friends in lingerie, blew up the images and hand-sculpted them into clay. Then I made thermoform copies. I ran the plastic myself through my thermoform machine at home, so each one took awhile to make.”
The hardest part of the process? Sculpting the butt, of course. You want to make sure that that Braille lady butt doesn’t look like a Braille man butt. “The butt was really hard to sculpt,” Murphy added. “I wanted to get it nice and even and give it a feminine softness so it would actually feel like a woman’s butt. It took me days to sculpt all the curves right, but I’m told it does feel like a woman’s butt in a G-string.”
The future is here, friends.
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