What do you find strangely erotic?

Oh, sorry, I thought you said 'Steve-ly robotic'. My bad.

I dont really think of porn as being erotic tbh

agree. to my thinking, eroticism has to do with real people and is very situational. a wink and a smile, or touching fingers, can be highly erotic in the right situation, more so than any amount of conscious sexual role-playing.

porn can't deliver genuine eroticism, because it is always mediated and centered on images of no one you'll ever meet, so the real people part is completely removed. soft porn often tries hard to suggest a situation where its porn content might be viewed as erotic. it appeals to a fantasy of the erotic, but fantasies are not in the same league as reality. while hard porn just goes straight for "the money shot" and usually has zero erotic content.

You just haven't meet the right porn.

so how does 'the right porn' invalidate what I said about mediation, fantasy, and situation?

you're suggesting that nothing can be erotic if it is mediated and centre on images of people you won't ever meet?

I guess it depends on whether you think it is possible for isolation to incorporate the erotic. with porn, there is no possibility of human contact aside from touching yourself. it is an ersatz.

I leave my body and become part of your blood.

sounds about as erotic as amoebic dysentery

there is no possibility of human contact aside from touching yourself.

why isn't that erotic?

I guess you think imagining human involvement where there is none is sufficient to fulfill the requirements of the erotic. That's fine. It's a definitional disagreement.

it's only erotic if someone else is honking on bobo

a wink can be cute. to dismiss all porn but offer a wink as the counterexample is overdoing it

"porn" is really just too heterogenous to make a uniform statement about whether or not it can be erotic imo

I find it frustratingly homogenous. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough? Hahaha that's not it

I like winks that punctuate jokes and laughter. My partner really likes ears sticking out from between hair tendrils. I think it's an elvish thing.

I still think a lot of space age/mid century modern/eisenhower era design is hot.

After pondering this question for a while I came up with: situations which, by circumstance,necessitate that people sort of discard one or several elements of the package they've chosen to present themselves as to the general public. Like on a really long flight, or for that matter a gruelingly long delay at the airport, where people have to, for their own comfort, get a little more comfortable and homey in public than they'd normally choose to get. Shoes come off, hair comes down, we sleep/nap, engage in kind of personal little rituals you otherwise might not in public.. I sound like a real voyeur eh

airport/airplane are the least erotic places for me

exact opposite for me

Pics of airport terminals without people in them are the best. People ruin everything.

car crashes

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haha oops

not erotic

http://www.jamesspader.org/images/i-crash-12.jpg

sex is the least erotic thing of all to me, seeing how ppl have folded down the corners of pages with passages they like is the only thing i find truly arousing

its the hormonal saliva scent isnt it

porn can't deliver genuine eroticism, because it is always mediated and centered on images of no one you'll ever meet, so the real people part is completely removed.

Porn can bring to mind experiences you've had, can't it?

I feel I was lucky to not first experience porn in the age of broadband, I can't imagine being confronted with all of the porn available on tube sites without some grounding in what sex is.

sub question

at what age did you first watch porn

and did you find it in the woods

a lone log among the bush

does watching the Spice Channel to barely discern a neon green nipple through the squiggles count

I love voices that sound like they're from layrnx's ravaged by decades of smoking. I would fuck Shohreh Aghdashloo's voice.

I thought that link wld be that old lady from the anti smoking ad

U kno the one that takes a drag from the hole in her neck

I find dissociation strangely erotic.

my first exposure was similar to cruts but honestly it was hotter not knowing what I was looking at

otm

My first exposure was hedge porn (that's pornography found buried in a, not hot topiary action). I like the distinction that the erotic admits while pornography excludes.

I'd totally agree with libraries. There's a buried tension in all libraries, I think. I also once found a pair of discarded lace ladypants in a stairwell of my local uni library.

*found buried in a hedge

I can see why people find the ASMR whispering videos erotic but the sensation of experiencing ASMR isn't actually erotic? I mean I'm sure there are people turned on by soft whispering but the physical shivering coolness of ASMR is more like a glowing euphoria than any kind of sexual release. Part of the reason the community of ASMR has struggled to find legitimacy as a phenomenon is because people characterise it as sexual but the majority of people don't experience it that way and I wish people wouldn't conflate the two sensations so easily

I mean my ASMR triggers are more from white noise from a vacuum or hairdryer and I can assure you there is nothing erotic about it

this is an extremely contentious issue in the asmr community but the circles of the venn diagram clearly overlap for at least some people some of the time

there are some women who clearly bank on offering a highly sexualized asmr experience eg pp0m0

yeah, a lot of ASMR channels are outlets for older married men to have quasi-interactive liaisons with cute 20-year-old college girls. if wifey confronts you about your habit, all you have to do is patiently explain to her that tinglequeenASMRotica is a therapist, not a camgirl, and that you're watching her "ASMR Blowdrying Your Balls and Taint Roleplay" video to destress after a long day of work, definitely not for onanistic purposes

I get a weird almost-erotic thrill from leaning on the car as you fill it with petrol and feeling it sink under the weight of the liquid.

eroticism has to do with real people and is very situational. a wink and a smile, or touching fingers, can be highly erotic in the right situation, more so than any amount of conscious sexual role-playing.

I get a weird almost-erotic thrill from leaning on the car as you fill it with petrol and feeling it sink under the weight of the liquid.

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The taarna segment of the film heavy metal

Squeaky sibilants.