The Kinsey Institute has a collection of vintage erotic art — one-of-a-kind pieces created by folks before the era of mass-produced porn. These folks had to make their own porn without video, without photography even, and even though they may look tame and hokey to our refined pornographic palettes, many are transgressive in their way, and show an impressive kind of resourcefulness:
The objects are often intimate and small in scale, given that they will be experienced in a private, familial or cloistered setting; images are awkwardly rendered and there is an overall lack of proficiency; if the image is photographic, the setting looks like a home environment and composition and lighting count for little. More often than not, the commonplace nature of the materials used and the execution of the overall object suggest that the creator was self-taught. Such lack of polish or sophistication in the production of the image or object is characteristic of outsider art in general and homemade erotica in particular.
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