AMATEUR FLESH: PANDA🐼Before social media, Reddit, OnlyFans or even the internet as we know it existed,
amateur content already had something that professional porn could hardly replicate: the feeling of watching real people.
For years, those photos circulated through magazines, homemade tapes, photographs sent through the mail and, later, the first webcams and personal websites. The quality could be terrible, the lighting even worse, and quite often the setting was nothing more than a bedroom, a bathroom or a mirror somewhere at home. But that was precisely a big part of its appeal.
There were no sets, huge productions or stars playing a character. There were ordinary people showing themselves because they felt like it, and other people on the other side who were more than happy to watch.
The internet simply multiplied all of that to infinity.
Forums, blogs and social media arrived, where thousands of users began sharing with complete strangers from all over the world.
The old homemade photo had found a global audience.
The cameras have changed, the platforms have changed and, above all, the speed at which images circulate has changed, but the essence has barely changed at all.
And that's where we find
Panda, another one of those amateurs who uses her Reddit profile to share her photos with the community.
Because after decades of trying to make porn increasingly spectacular, sophisticated and professional,
there's still something particularly appealing about the exact opposite: a real person, a camera and the desire to show herself off.
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THE EROTIC ART OF EUGENIO SICOMOROEugenio Sicomoro is the artistic name of Bruno Brunetti, an Italian artist and illustrator born in Rome in 1952 who has spent practically his entire life with a pencil in his hand.
Throughout his career, he has worked in the world of
comics and illustration for some of Europe's leading publishers, contributing to numerous publications and developing a particularly recognizable style when it comes to depicting the human figure.
But of all his work, there's one particular side that, for strictly cultural and completely selfless reasons, has brought us here: his
erotic drawings.
Portraits and female nudes created mainly in pencil and charcoal, where Sicomoro plays with
shadows, curves, and proportions to create sensual, voluptuous, and surprisingly realistic women.
In some of his works, the level of detail makes you think for a moment that you're looking at a black-and-white photograph, until you get closer and begin to notice
the pencil strokes, the shading, and the texture of the paper.
Almost half a century of drawing, and he still finds
plenty of good reasons to keep sharpening his pencil.
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Today's slow-mo.