Althouse: "A raised photograph cannot turn me on, because a photograph itself is meaningless to me."

April 14, 2010

"A raised photograph cannot turn me on, because a photograph itself is meaningless to me."

"This is a sighted person's idea of what turns me on, and it's not even close."

21 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: @thumbsdown

Hehe.; 4/14/10, 8:46 AM
ricpic said...: Sight is good but touch is better,
Gimme them raised red hot letters.; 4/14/10, 8:51 AM
Unknown said...: The very idea is sightist - and probably hearingist and touchist as well.; 4/14/10, 8:55 AM
Scott said...: I saw the link on Drudge, and assumed it was NSFW.

Are the pages bas-relief?

I bet Sarah Palin has something to do with this.

wv:puccal . I doubt it is.; 4/14/10, 9:04 AM
Wince said...: The upside: using it won't make you go blind.; 4/14/10, 9:07 AM
Scott said...: But you will still grow hair on the palms of your hands.; 4/14/10, 9:19 AM
vet66 said...: Depends on how the photograph is raised...lol; 4/14/10, 9:34 AM
Wince said...: Ba-dum cshhhh.; 4/14/10, 9:34 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Rumor has it Gov Patterson accidentally sealed the premier issue ;); 4/14/10, 9:41 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This 'technology' offers a treasure trove of new material for congressman Carl Paladino ;); 4/14/10, 9:53 AM
bagoh20 said...: Maybe the "images" just aren't sexy. I sure don't think so.; 4/14/10, 10:03 AM
traditionalguy said...: This could evolve into a new niche dating service for ugly single girls with nice boobs and nipples. Did Helen Keller get laid?; 4/14/10, 10:19 AM
rachel tot said...: Next it'll be porn for the hearing-impaired.; 4/14/10, 10:34 AM
Rose said...: Those really are atrocious. Ugh. Weird paper bags over the heads? What the point of that?; 4/14/10, 10:41 AM
Methadras said...: Is this Bush's fault somehow?; 4/14/10, 11:14 AM
rhhardin said...: These are entertaining, but not to the blind.

from Arnold Zwicky; 4/14/10, 1:38 PM
rachel tot said...: Mapping mounded breasts in relief isn't pornography, it's top-ography.; 4/14/10, 1:49 PM
Anonymous said...: I have a pretty good idea what will be missing from the raised figures of naked women :(

Peter; 4/14/10, 3:40 PM
dick said...: The interesting part of this whole idea is what would be the basis for these items being erotic to the blind. How would the blind envision something that he or she has never seen nor is able to see.

As I read no another website, a blind person can read a person's face by touch. How likely is it that that blind person would be permitted to "read" a person's sex or sexual desires by touch without getting severely slapped about the head and shoulders should they stray the wrong way.

What kind of texture would you have to use to appeal to the blind person's erotic impulses? Smooth? hairy? curved? soft? hard? pulsating? heated? It would be interesting to see what a blind person would come up with as an erotic object for other blind people of either sex.; 4/14/10, 4:14 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: They should have gone for the scratch & sniff.; 4/14/10, 5:28 PM
mariner said...: I have a pretty good idea what will be missing from the raised figures of naked women :(

Peter

That will probably be missing, too.; 4/14/10, 7:01 PM