ArtfulPorn has been online for just over a year now. I began this project as little experiment just to see where it would go. In one year, we’ve published nearly 1,500 photos, 136 posts, and have even pulled off a few interviews. I approached this project with some pessimism, fully expecting to give up on it and shut the site down by the end of it’s one-year lease.
As a bit of an idea-preneur, I have about a million projects going on all the time, so I had to take a good look at ArtfulPorn to see if it was going to wind up on the chopping block. After perusing our collection of erotica, reviewing our layout and analyzing pages of traffic statistics, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m damned proud of this site.
By making the search for artistic pornography into a necessary work goal rather than the occasional diversion, we’ve been able to unearth a truly colossal amount of beautiful and tasteful erotica. You see, in the past it was particularly difficult to find any collection of explicit erotica that didn’t range from the absurd to the downright embarrassing. Through careful selection of only the finest photos, we’ve been able to assemble a virtual art gallery that I am thrilled to be associated with.
Over the course of the next year we will continue to grow our selection of artistic porn. Encouraged by new content, I plan devote most of the site towards more sexualized content, be it good old fashioned sex, lesbian art, or simple masturbation. The goal is to provide our site as a study of sexuality through the developing “art porn” industry.
If there is anything you would like to see from ArtfulPorn, please leave your comments below – it is completely anonymous and your email address will not be shared or spammed.
Love what you are doing with porn. Would like to see more cum shots, and where to find “climax”
Thanks Ralph! I’ll keep my eye open for lovely cum shots. What exactly do you mean by “where to find climax?”
Love this site and what you’re doing with it. What’s your view on shemale porn? I’m a straight bloke but I think there is some beautiful shemale porn out there.
To be perfectly honest it kind of disturbs me. I’ll like what I see up top, but when I see what’s down below it just wrecks it. Furthermore, I prefer to admire natural beauty rather than surgical skill.
Pat, congratulations on evolving your once-small idea to the current spectacular art gallery of the breathlessly finest sexual imagery we’ve come across in ages. As one of your more verbose patrons, your posts have been witty & intelligent, the erotica has been hot, and the whole site has been really fun. We’re of course excited to see you grow your expansion into more sexualized content, and hope other visitors will not be too shy to leave comments. Of course, to maximize our own enjoyment (by continuing our top 10 list tradition) we thought we should do a quick retrospective and submit our nominations for our top ten favorite posts of the past year, in chronological order by date:
*** 1. “Katrina – Watch Me Cum” posted Feb 8th, 2010: The first hardcore set that Pat blogged about that retroactively caught our attention for its true mash up between hardcore and beauty. Check out pic #21 that shows off one of our favorite turn-ons: Intimate deep kissing while beautifully fucking, with Katrina exposing every inch of the full front of her body as she is elegantly penetrated by her lover (and realizing from Pat’s later bloggings he must have loved the way Katrina’s pussy lips were parted in this pose). We were hooked.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/02/katrina-watch-me-cum/
*** 2. “Can Cumshots be Used Artistically?” posted Mar 6th, 2010: Which Artful porn made clear the rhetoric answer is clearly “Duh!–Just Sadly, Not that Often”. To wit: staring at that first shot of cream splashed against the model’s chest, emblematic of Pat’s notation that “The astute photographer can capture stunning portraits or paint beautiful murals amid naked flesh.” We anticipate an “Artful Money Shot” spin-off site in the future.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/03/artistic-cumshots/
*** 3. “The Moment of Penetration” posted Mar 10th, 2010: For pure hotness, it’s hard to beat this post worshiping that singular moment studying intercourse, made clear by that 8th shot of the model’s gaze over her own plump lips being just barely stuffed by the beautiful action that follows.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/03/the-moment-of-penetration/
*** 4. “Threesome Photograph Done Right” posted Mar 31st, 2010 and “Gilda Roberts Private Threesome” posted Aug 21st, 2010: Go to the first link for the excellent writing (what threesomes should be but often aren’t) and the second for the actual pics (of which the 3rd shot is simply poetry in motion, a rarity when you get that many bodies involved, but the type of stuff that gets us more turned on when discovered like Artful Porn did here.)
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/03/threesome-photograph-done-right/
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/08/gilda-roberts-threesome/
*** 5. “Sexual Kisses” posted Apr 20th, 2010: Taking threesome erotica to its logical conclusion, this was a neat little film-noir setting for the starlet pleasing her two men. Brownie points for the sheer multitasking demonstrated in pic #6: Penetration AND vibration AND fellatio AND listening to the soundtrack in her head all at once!
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/04/sexual-kisses/
***6. “Reason to Watch Porn #23″ posted Jun 15th, 2010: The photo being appraised is only half of the ingredient that makes this hot: The other is the sheer blog writing, as the attention to detail (e.g.”Her arched back bespeaks passion as it directs the viewer’s eye toward the centerpiece”) is what makes it good old fashioned erotic writing.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/06/reason-to-watch-porn-23/
*** 7. “Interview with Sandra Shine” posted Jul 22nd, 2010: Lesbian porn is kind of like how we both feel about salad–we’re happy to indulge when presented but don’t necessarily crave it over other options on the menu. But knowing Artful Porn’s giddiness over any kind of girl-on-girl action kind of makes us enjoy it more, whether it’s Pat’s breathless admiration of Blue Angel eating out Yoha’s pussy, or this spirited big-time interview with one of the queens of elegant shots, Sandra Shine.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/07/interview-with-sandra-shine/
*** 8. “Beautiful Scenery and Sex” posted Aug 11th, 2010: As you might have guessed, we’re big fan of compilations around themes, and Pat is sort of the Nick Hornby of the erotic blog world. This set (fucking on the tail end of a speedboat in shot #1! Sixty-nining on the beach in shot 7!”) made us want to move to France and get it on in front of a breathless vista.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/08/beautiful-scenery-and-sex-alright/
*** 9. “Interview with X-art.com” posted Nov 10th, 2010: A great example of how the people behind cutting-edge erotica can be as fasinating as the subjects in front of the camera. Coco and Brig were exactly the type of highbrow-but-entrepreneurial couple we always wanted to run a website, and this interview led us directly to them.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/11/interview-with-x-art-com/
***10. “Alexis Texas User Submissions” posted Dec 14th, 2010: Like we mentioned in the comments section, it’s almost narcistic to mention this post since we supplied the humble contributions, but what we really got a kick out of was Pat’s fantastically descriptive picture-worship of the shots, topped by a near-poem to that close-up of Alexis (or, rather her vagina) getting pumped. We’re pretty sure if we asked Pat to submit a 2,000 word essay on any particular erotic image he would turn in something as fun to read as the image itself, which keeps us coming back for more.
http://www.artfulporn.com/2010/12/alexis-texas-user-submissions/
Can’t wait to see how you grow the site in 2011. Here’s to another great year of erotica blogging!
Thanks for the top ten. I actually wanted to put something like this together but just couldn’t narrow it down. Well done!