Caught in the Net: On Display
Exhibitionists and voyeurs go together like chocolate and peanut butter. The internet makes potential voyeurs of us all . . . and, fortunately, there are people willing to put everything they have on display for our long-distance screen-mediated perusal. (I know I just did an exhibitionism column a couple of months ago, but I can’t help it — the links are piling up!)
Consider Nora Ness’s Erotic Mirror, a website devoted to the many, many, many erotic photos she’s taken of herself in mirrors (she’s even got a whole book of the pictures). She was never happy with any of the photographers who took pictures of her nude, so she took matters into her own hands. Talk about cutting out the middleman.
Exhibitionism and voyeurism (which is a combo that really needs its own shorthand, like S&M or D/s) can inspire architecture, too. Consider this article about a Manhattan apartment building built for peeping, not just by people on the street, but by your own roommates — where the bathrooms are totally visible from the rest of the apartment, say. I stayed in a trendy hotel once in LA where the bathroom was a glass box, totally exposed to the rest of the room, and decided that, while it might be hot under certain circumstances, it was mostly inconvenient (the friend who met me for dinner chose to wait in the hall while I peed, understandably enough). The creators of the building above are apparently making a statement about how privacy is vanishing in the age of YouTube, etc., and while they might have a point, I’m not sure I want to live inside something built to make a point, however valid.
It’s possible to be a modest exhibitionist, as seen in this remarkable photo; it’s a long-exposure shot of a couple having sex on a bed, and you can’t really see anything clearly, since it’s just the aggregate image of all their varied positions, but it’s strangely erotic anyway.
Some exhibitionist types love fucking in public because of the thrill of possible discovery — it’s the fear of being caught that jazzes them, not actually being caught. For those, here’s some helpful advice: Tips for having sex in an elevator (fake maintenance signs, mind the maximum occupancy limit, etc.) and Ten tips for public coitus (dress carefully, bring something to sit on, don’t litter). Mostly common-sense stuff, but who says exhibitionists display common sense?
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on Monday, 11 February 2008 at 2:04 pm Charles Read wrote:
Nora Ness needs to let a prfessional shoot her erotic photos. Her own are average at best!