I just saw this online thanks to MT of X3 and had to post.
Porn has never been so touching – especially now that there’s a Braille version for the blind.
Photographer Lisa J. Murphy has just created Tactile Mind, a book of nude images sculpted on thermoform plastic pages – the same material used in Braille paper.
All the lines, ridges, and crevices of the body parts are touchable, so the pictures can be enjoyed by the visually impaired. To fully feel the erotica, they each come with an accompanying description in Braille.
Murphy, who’s a volunteer at the Canadian National Institute For The Blind, calls the book a “labor of love.”
Each sexy image took her about 50 hours to sculpt so it would be interpreted accurately by the sightless.
Her tactile creations include a woman’s naked breasts, an uncircumcised penis and testicles, and a shaved vagina.
None of her art seems to be getting lost in translation because in her words, “Blind folks say my work is good. Wink, wink.”
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