Structured Outline

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INTRODUCTION What I aim to discuss here is the gap in the heterosexual erotic image of the female’s object of desire: the male body. After generations of female artists working with the nude, with sexual identity, arousal, and desire, no solid, lasting image of the picturesque sensual male has been created in or by the heterosexual community. We have the iconic image of the gladiator, the lumberjack, and the firemen, but these are not very relevant sexual motifs in 2016. I am using the language of photography and video to creates erotic and grotesque images of the sexualzied male body. Included in the works in video documentation of the photo-shoot interaction between myself, the female creator, and my model, the male object. We will discuss these gaps in female desire, and the effect it has on the male’s desire to be seen, or looked upon in an erotic light.

BODY OF THESIS -A discussion of the trends of heterosexual female artists working with the body, and the persistence of these art works to be focused on self portraiture and the female nude. They are defining ‘femininity’ but are not concerned with defining female erotic attractions. Examples :Wilke, Schneemann, Sherman. Current: Petra Collins. How this trend has been remained totally focused on the female form, and has rarely ever included works by women which turn the camera to the object of their sexual desire: the male body. -A study on the rise of erotics in queer culture, gay porn, and the blurring of gender boundaries within this community. How has this community defined queer/gay sexuality, sexual representation, body image, and pornographic style? The more traditional an area, the less defined it is. Where as most people never consider their position within this “norm” of heterosexuality, there has been no self reflection on this tradition. It has been defined for us by the mainstream, and so we accept that is who we are, and we do not question if there is more or less. The queer community has been able to create a richness of diversity through this lack of definition. -Gay Porn vs Straight Porn “Our pornography is shaped both by the oppression told by my long chain of participles and by our conditioning as men in patriarchy. We must direct our claim to our pornographic culture, not towards occupying our share of patriarchal space, but towards shattering that space, transforming it.” Can these two genres learn from one another on how to transcend the limits of the “patriarchal space” in regrard to sexual representation of heterosexual sexuality?

CONCLUSION The work I am aiming to create is a female gaze onto my own object of desire, along with a dialogue with my object about their own limitations in regard to sexual expression, fetish, body image, partnership communication as a result of past experience, pornography, and the myth of submission. I want to discuss the appeal of submission and of being seen, and how the lack of hetero-male presentation has affected sexual relationships and sexual culture within the heterosexual male and female. I will use the diversity of the queer community and gay male porn as a outline for the possibilities for exploring desire, beauty, and sexy anxiety.

REFERENCES Primary Sources: The Feminist Porn Book : Taormino, Shimizu, Penley, Miller-Young Art & Obscenity : Kerstin Mey The Artist's Body : Amelia Jones

Secondary Sources: Men’s Pornography: Gay vs Straight, Thom Waugh Slutever.com