Sorting Photos

On and off over the last couple of days, I've been sorting and categorizing erotic photos I've saved from the web. As I worked through them, I noticed I'd have several copies of the same photo under different names. Which means I saved them at different times not realizing I already had a copy. In turn, I think that means there's a great deal of consistency in my selection criteria. Even though it might be difficult to state.

Although I'm still not finished, I've created the following groups: "Are You Hot," from the ABC program of the same name; "Aussie," hunks from Australia and New Zealand; "Master S," from a site in Norway of obvious content; "Johan" and "Lucas," representing the guys of the same name from BelAmi; "Louganis," shots of Greg in and out of his Speedo; "Riker Twins," shots of the twins in and out of clothes; "Subs," two subs in Vienna; "Chapshard," from chapshard.com. (As you might notice, vanilla is handy, but dark chocolate is dandy.)

There are two groups "Celebs" and "Models" for celebs and models. Models are models. Celebs are more widely known. And these need some more refining.

It's curious how some photos will be all over the place at one point, then completely disappear. And then become almost impossible to find again.

Some photos become almost legendary. For example, the orignal Brad Pitt nudes; Louganis in "Playgirl"; almost anything to do with Lucas Ridgeston or the Brewer twins; Simon Rex clips.

And some photos are legendary, even though they don't exist. For example, the new full frontals of Brad sunbathing; the surpressed shots of the Brewer Twins; nudes of Orlando Bloom from an unfinished German movie (in this case they don't exist because the movie does not exist); Ryan Phillipe kissing the busboy in "Studio 54."

About a year ago, I saw a documentary on photography, and it indicated that one of the first subjects for the camera was nudes. During the Civil War, it was common for photos of nude women to be traded by the soldiers. No doubt, because of the subject matter, few have survived.

If you look at each new visual media for the last 150 years, each has immediately latched on to erotica. Still images, film, videotape, video disc, digitized stills, computer generated images, animations, DVD, web images.

And if you backtrack through history, has there been any medium that did not have its share of erotica? I've read that there are even explicit cave paintings.

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