BeautifulAgony.com launched in 2004 as a response to what the founders saw as a vacuum of real erotica on the Internet. It features videos of contributors’ o-faces, i.e. orgasms from the neck up. Hundreds and hundreds of videos later — they update each weekday — the site is still going strong. It’s heavy-breathing sexy without being obscene in the slightest — quite an accomplishment. You have to pay to join ($14.95 a month) but there are plenty of free samples in case your sex life is on a recession-induced budget. We chatted with c0-founder Lauren Olney about the site:
Do you post every video you receive?
Unfortunately not all the videos we receive make the cut. Mostly it’s technical problems that prevent us from using a contribution: poor lighting, framing, or flashing a little too much flesh. Anything that’s obviously faked or exaggerated will also get politely declined we’re looking for authenticity, genuine emotion — and believe me, after five years, we know how to spot a fake! We also require a Confessions interview with each Beautiful Agony submission, so if a contributor is not willing to speak openly and honestly about themselves and/or their experiences on camera, then we can’t really use their “o-face” video, no matter how sensational it might be.
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image: Aladdin from the “Disney Hereos” series by David Kawena
Wow. Have you seen these? Especially all you people out there who are into dudes? They’re David Kawena’s digital art series “Disney’s Heroes” — the once-G-rated male leads of the Magic Kingdom re-imagined with a lot fewer clothes. So naughty, yet still kinda sweet. He’s done recent live action heroes like Zac Efron in High School Musical and Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean, but the best are his realistic renderings of Disney’s 2D animated characters like Aladdin and Hercules. (Become a free member of DeviantArt.com to see his full official gallery with all the naughty princes and their peens, or just Google him to see the blogs who’ve swiped most the pics.) There’s not much info out there on this artist, since apparently he likes to keep his private life private. Disneylicious (”a site about the world, the art and the culture of Disney”) did an exclusive extended interview with Kawena earlier this year, but it’s all very vague. No juicy questions like, “What’s the plan with the Princesses series you’re going to do next — you say it’ll be different, but will it be just as risque?” “Has Disney tried to sue you yet? ‘Cause, come on, you can see Tarzan’s pubic hair!” And of course, ”What’s your sexual orientation?” (It may seem obvious — he’s also really, really into Madonna — but check out his evasion to the question in this smaller email interview with Gemini Art.) Actually, the mystery kind of adds to the appeal of the work. Make of it what you will (i.e. apply your own pubescent fantasies to it).
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Above, the covers for two erotica anthologies. When MILF Fantasies was released as an ebook by Ravenous Romance earlier this year, it barely sold. Young Studs was made available shortly after, and shot into Ravenous Romance’s top ten.
This would be nothing more than a curiosity of sales data, were it not for one essential fact: MILF Fantasies and Young Studs are the same book, just with different titles, and different covers.
Book sellers (and pretty much everyone else) are accustomed to the idea that if you want something to sell, you put a picture of a woman (preferably young and white) on the cover. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider that assumption–at the very least, when trying to sell erotica to straight women.
Erotica Cover Watch: Young Studs, ed. Cecilia Tan, pub. Ravenous Romance [eroticacoverwatch.wordpress.com]
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