This blog has been created to record my personal and professional development throughout my final major independent project, entitled Good Taste in Porn: Selling Sex to Women.
The word pornography is traditionally loaded with negativity. What fascinates me is the surfacing of a form of porn-chic, in which pornography is reinterpreted as stylish and sophisticated. Style and fashion have become important resources in constructing a safe language where sex is commodified as a pleasure for women.
Friday 19 February 2010
Tied up at the Office by Mike Figgis for Agent Provocateur
I have just been looking at the work of Mike Figgis for Agent Provocateur entitled Tied up at the Office. It makes for quite uncomfortable viewing, if what you're expecting is a run of the mill lingerie advert! Is Figgis 'sanitising' porn using sophisticated artistic techniques? (black and white/use of sound etc.) Is this even porn at all? Perhaps we call it 'soft-core' porn or perhaps it is what we call erotic art... Right now I am struggling with what the difference is...
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