Question: Porn or Art?

45 CommentsQuestion 02 Mar 2009

I found this interesting picture. It’s something between art and porn. What do you think?
Your thoughts?

45 Comments »

    Anonymous

    Its so fcking hot!!

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 1
    Anonymous

    P-Art maybe

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 1 Thumb down 0
    Ruben C.

    I think it leans more towards the art side. If it was a pornographic picture, why cover the goods and hide his face/body. I’m not outright saying it’s art, just that it leans more to that side.

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 1 Thumb down 0
    J. Clarence

    Why does it have to be one or the other?

    If art is the expression of the human condition, expression, and experience; pornography, which is simply the manifestation of sexual expression for the sake of sexual arousal, is surely art. Of course not all art is valued the same, but it’s still art, like the picture.

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 2 Thumb down 0
    Luc

    Let me put it this way: I’d fuck this guy’s hole silly, and then frame the picture for my wall.

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 1 Thumb down 0
    Terry

    Art is in the eye of whoever is looking at it. For some this would be just porn – someone else it could be art.

    It doesn’t do either for me.

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Porn IS Art.

    Comment | March 2, 2009 Thumb up 1 Thumb down 1
    Tré Xavier

    Well, when done correctly, this pic can be both, because then porn is a form of art.

    Although, I may be a bit biased when it comes to this pic, because I used it in a blog entry for my “Getting Out The Kinks” series called, “Step To Me – WET!”

    http://tre-x.com/blog/?p=175

    And I used it because it’s a VERY HOT pic that helps to explain my point.

    Comment | March 3, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Porn

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    porn, art -if I had to put a label on it I’d go with porn. Nothing wrong with porn, love it. But Ruben, I don’t think it is so much he’s covering his cock as he’s gettin ready to put one of those fingers up his ass and go to town.

    just my thoughts
    BHcolin

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    It’s freaking hot….
    I’m torn between porn and art. because it’s pornographic, but shot artistic!

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    AC

    Wow!! I love this shot….It’s both porn and art…interelated I guess….either I don’t care… This shot is deliciously addictive!! crazy! any more?

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    I want to see him put his fingers inside..yum!

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Porn.

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 1 Thumb down 0
    MaGa

    It's porn ;)
    sorry .. <3
    - MaGa-Wall

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    its porn!

    Comment | March 4, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    DB

    The guy in this picture is JD Amos. This picture is the copyright of Colt Studios, when it was owned by Rip Colt aka Jim French. Rip Colt himself did the photography of his models. Although Colt Studios is considered gay porn, anyone who’s familiar with Colt Studios when it was under Rip Colt or is a fan of Colt Studios basically seen Rip’s photography as gay art or at least porn with a more artistic feel….

    Comment | March 5, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    thegayte-keeper

    I’d say it is art…

    Comment | March 5, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Uh could we move onto something else?

    Comment | March 5, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Well, a basic study of art history would say ‘depends’… Dadaism showed us that context is everything when it comes to an object (or photograph in this case) is art or not… this pic in a gallery = art… this pix on a porn site = porn…

    Anonymous above can certainly move onto something else (there are scads of blogs out there) ;-)

    Comment | March 5, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Boring me!!

    Comment | March 6, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    nice

    Comment | March 7, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Soulless

    Art, like beauty, has always been in the eye of the beholder. It’s a subjective judgment based on one’s personal ideas and aesthetic preferences.

    Comment | March 10, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Porn, duh.

    Comment | April 5, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    regardless of it has any artistic merit – one man's art is another man's garbage – this picture is incredibly for porn standards…

    Comment | September 9, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Porn is, sexual arts???????

    Comment | September 11, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    very sweet hole, for fucking, but is art

    Comment | October 18, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Yaell

    It is Porn-art :-)))
    and I love it !!!

    Comment | December 6, 2009 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    jose

    porn

    Comment | January 11, 2010 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    gd

    its porn and art its P-ART!

    Comment | February 16, 2010 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Anonymous

    Art? I guess I’d hang it on the wall but it doesn’t match my sofa.

    Comment | May 2, 2010 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Tim

    I’m a professional artist and deal with galleries in NY and across the country. This question is brought up a lot. Hard to answer because it is subjective. Sometimes the answer depends on where the picture is shown – on porn website or in a gallery with other works by an artist that are not as ‘pornographic.” The latter might be considered art. As is, I think most artists who don’t mind erotic content would consider this picture to still be porn, meant mainly for erotic pleasure. Personally, I love the pic and men like this. It still is mainly erotic to me. If the person who made it believe it is art, is it art to him/her.

    Comment | September 15, 2010 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    BigBadJon

    The Courts have determined pornography to be any visual representation of penetration. By that legal definition it is not porn in spite of its sexual and sensual nature.

    Comment | September 25, 2010 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Tyler B. Real

    The photo is awfully suggestive to be considered art. If I were to see the photo somewhere else, I’d call it porn

    Comment | September 28, 2010 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Brad

    Last year, I remember going to a small photo exhibition in Paris showcasing nude male photography. In fact, there were a few color photos of gay porn stars among all the “tasteful” B&W images. I found that interesting. Whoever put together the exhibition obviously felt that those “porn” pics (the dudes were hot, hung, and hard) were artful in their own way. Then, looking at the other “tasteful” photos, I found I felt the same sexual desire as I did looking at the “porn” pics. I began to see his reasoning.

    Comment | February 9, 2011 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    j-co

    awesome its art

    Comment | June 11, 2011 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    kube

    please contact me…

    Comment | October 26, 2011 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    dav

    crayative

    Comment | October 28, 2011 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    MsBitter

    Porn. There is nothing in that picture that comes even close to artistic.

    Comment | November 16, 2011 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
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    Comment | November 25, 2011 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    aziz

    it’s art ofcorse

    Comment | January 29, 2012 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    syaroan li

    Place it bathroom, so u can answer that

    Comment | June 2, 2012 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Charles

    none of the two, it would fall under erotica in my books

    Comment | June 14, 2012 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    brian

    porns artist

    Comment | August 1, 2012 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0
    Ryan

    It’s the art of porn,

    Comment | August 9, 2012 Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

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