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Woman Creates 3-D Erotic Book For the Blind
Lisa J. Murphy has written an erotic book with tactile images for that special visually impaired porn connoisseur in your life. Tactile Mind contains explicit softcore raised images, along with Braille text and photos. From the article: "A photographer with a certificate in Tactile Graphics from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Murphy learned to create touchable images of animals for books for visually impaired children. Then she realized that there was a lack of such books for adults only. 'There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults, at least the last time I looked around,' says Murphy. 'We're breaking new ground. Playboy has [an edition with] Braille wording, but there are no pictures.' She says that while we live in a culture saturated with sexual images, the blind have been 'left out.'"
I hope she skips the goatse 3D pictorial.... even for the Blind, once something has been 'touched' it can't be 'untouched'.
I'm gonna have to dig up my old "Pet the Bunny" book...
There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults, at least the last time I looked around
Isn't that what nude sculptures are for?
"pop-up" book.
...that they missed the opportunity to make it a pop-up.
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I guess if you are into gas-mask fetishes.
Aren't they going to need a third hand to hold the book?
Question: What are tits?
Answer: It's braille for "touch here".
Life is not for the lazy.
They already have blow up dolls, and of course, real women.
Did Lisa get this idea after watching Robin Hood: Men in tights?
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
They had to withdraw it - too many teenagers were injuring themselves on the centerfold staples.
How would you find them by LOOKING??? Duh!
Mel Brooks got there first, with the blind servant's "reading material" in Robin Hood, Men In Tights.
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Mel Brooks did this 17 years ago!
Every body knows masturbation leads to blindness, so, now, she's gonna push these people even further. Haven't they paid a big enough price already for their obsession?
ideopath @ play
WTF am I feeling here? A freakish, masked, ladyboy?! THAT'S the best tactile picture you can create? damn...
...on the "Pop-up Guide to Sex"
Blinkin: Oh Master Robin! You lost your arms in battle! But you grew some nice boobs.
Robin Hood: Blinkin, I'm over here.
It will consist of a 3D pictorial of Jennifer Love Hewitt, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek and Christina Hendricks from Mad Men.
Trouble is, it's about a meter thick...
This ain't rocket surgery.
Bray-Pron was Born.
I use my hands when reading erotic literature as well... perhaps not quite in the same way though. I wonder if this leads to a shortage of hands in certain situations.
Play me online? Well you know that I'll beat you. If I ever meet you I'll "/sbin/shutdown -h now" you. -Weird Al, kinda.
My friend actually has one! Apparently the Library of Congress makes them as a service for blind people. The thing was just 1/3 of one issue and it was like 3 inches thick! You can get 'em on ebay (or probably from the government, but ebay is easy enough).
-Taylor
Worldwide Military budgets: $2100 billion. Worldwide Space Exploration budgets: $38 billion. Really, world? Really?
There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults, at least the last time I looked around
Har har har. You couldn't resist the pun, eh? Thanks. -- The Blind.
This is some wacky shit. I don't think I'd call it porn.
http://www.tactilemindbook.com/
I ask this question seriously, and from a psychological perspective. We learn as we grow up what the social norms of attractiveness are, do we not? Isn't that why they have meandered and oscillated many times over human history? So then how does a blind person figure out what attractive physical traits are? Uncle Bob can tell little Johnny that girls with big boobs are hot, but if Johnny can't see boobs, then how will he know what that even means*? So what would distinguish between a hot chick and an ugly chick, for a blind person? In particular, much of what makes women attractive (or not) would seem to be things that would be extremely difficult to portray in any tactile way, such as hair color and length, small features of the face/nose/mouth area, and the like. Perhaps I underestimate the sensitivity of a blind person's fingers.
Notice, I am not asking why a blind person would find these sexually arousing. I'm asking how the norms of what is and isn't hot would be established for someone with a limited sensory pool. It makes perfect sense to me that a blind man who's touched boobs before would get off on pretending he's touching boobs while stroking a curved... er... now I know why blind uncle Ted always strokes the arms of his chair like that...
* I assume, of course, that he doesn't go around feeling up everyone he meets in a brute-force attempt to uncover Uncle Bob's meaning
I'm just surprised no-one's ever made scratch n' sniff porn. Though maybe that's a bridge too far.
... Why is the guy with a gas mask? ... Where're the guy hands? I can see the frame but he lacks his hands...
So, the final question is... Are you sure this book shouldn't be entitled "The sexy torture book"?
because -blind or not- they can actually feel a titty without that pesky interaction with a woman!
thinking outside the box
This is on Slashdot because ... it's 3D? ... it's something for the blind? ... it's an art book? ... it was written by a woman? ... it's vaguely about sex?
The news item doesn't quite seem to raise up to even kdawson's lowest interpretation of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
"She says that while we live in a culture saturated with sexual images, the blind have been 'left out.'"" Gee, could it be because they are BLIND? Images are, by definition, visual. There is a reason they call blindness a handicap. It is not just that they are too lazy to open their eyes. I can't see three dimensions. I get by quite well, but I don't go to see 3D movies because then I feel handicapped. It is just one thing that one learns to live without.
"Care about people's opinions and you will be their prisoner." ~~Tao Te Ching~~
I suppose it beats having your seeing-eye dog look at the pr0n and listening to his panting.
How about an adult version of this --
http://www.amazon.com/Nutcracker-Classic-Collectible-Pop-Up/dp/0689832850/ref=cm_lmf_tit_7
First of all the only thing I've used Braille for in the passed 15 years is graphs in math. I'd be to busy trying to figure what the hell kind of equation has that many curves to jack off. If I got passed that after whacking off and covering the page in sperm two or three times the dots and pictures would be to damn sticky to read.
rub one off!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
but, I simply won't touch this.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
http://journalstone.com/2010/04/12/nude-photographs-for-the-blind/
humm the author desperately needs some /. assistance - in the article they say she's taking photos, then hand modeling clay over the top of the image which is then reated to become a master for the book plates. Taking some 40-50 hrs per image. /. solution:
stereo photos or even the diy 3d scanner, some software and a 3d printer and she'd be done in an hr or two.
geesh
Maybe a market for landscapes, animal/plant identification books etc for the blind?
Art books using textures for colour mapping? (smooth-rough for saturation and maybe nap/nap directions for colour wheel?)
Audio porn. I don't mean pornographic audiobooks. I mean something like this famous holophonic recording: http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/voce.mp3 Except not just sexy but explicitly sexual.
A photographer with a certificate in Tactile Graphics from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
I hate to poke fun at these serious handicaps, but does one really need to be certified to be able to turn image outlines into crude heightmaps ? Do the people making those raised letters on book covers hold a degree in tactile typography ?
FFS, we did this sort of thing in kindergarten. Chicky needs to get a real job. You want tactile porn ? Go to a strip club. Even blind people can enjoy tits in their face.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Uncle Bob can tell little Johnny that girls with big boobs are hot, but if Johnny can't see boobs, then how will he know what that even means*?
This might shock you, but some people do manage to touch boobies in their life time. (They are called girls, doesn't seem fair really).
So they can feel that big boobies are hotter. The extra friction when moving around heats them up. That is what you mean by hotter right?
Sex on slashdot, the king of oxymorons.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
This has already been done
as it is eaten so it shall pass
This is NOT a real product for blind people. It is a way to use art to point out something in our world that we don't think about. A comedian would use a joke.
I seriously doubt any blind person would buy this for stimulation. It is just a way to look at the world from a different perspective.
This guy is not a troll, he just hasn't got the joke.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Speaking of blind people and movies, does anyone know of DVD's (or Blu-rays) for movies other than Moulin Rouge which specifically cater to the blind? For those not familiar with it, the Moulin Rouge DVD has a soundtrack for the blind, where a narrator describes what's happening in the movie.
FWIW, the Braille caption of the picture says "m]ale torso in a cold cement". (The "m" is not in the picture frame and I'm inferring it.)
Esli epei etot cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.
I mean, nobody.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase.
but i'm going to assume the error in not understanding is yours, not mine, and i'm going reach for the most radical interpretation of what you are trying to say, and then i'm going to take it very seriously, and then i'm going to get very angry
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
There's already the hilarious pornfortheblind.org.