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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'.
that's what i kept telling that museum security guard but he just wouldn't listen
...that they missed the opportunity to make it a pop-up.
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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.
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How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
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
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.
I though the joke was Q: "What are the bumps on the areolae for?"
Blind man walks into department store, reaches down and grabs his Labrador retriever by the hind legs and starts swinging it in a wide circle over his head.
Clerk: "what are you doing??!!"
Blind Man: "Don't mind me, I'm just looking around"
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 mean, nobody.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't