Forms of Desire

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Summary: a truly great book by a wonderful artist
Review: doris kloster's one of the most interesting personas and artist in the erotic photograpy fild, her on going dialog with porn, art and the femal body contininues in this book. it's very hard to explain a photo, but hers are cold, stylish inoveting and proffessional enough to be both highly artistic and very sexualy arousing as well.

the book itself showes a large number of very well printed black and white photos, with a beautiful cover, the images runs from very explicit nudes to insinuated sexual mathaphors, it's great both as a sex book and as an art book.

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Summary: How to explore your desire
Review: Kloster in "Forms of Desire" give us all the beauty and sensuality of Fetichism. Divided by themes, all different forms of love and sense are represented by situations where the woman is the focus. She uses black and white photos to increase our fantasy. All the forms of desire are allowed and Kloster show us a range of them bringing to the reader the choice.

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Summary: This book changed how I think about erotica!
Review: My best friend gave me a copy of this book, and I thought, "Hmmm." I've never before found visual erotica that I truly enjoyed. As a kinky feminist, most of the naughty images I've been exposed to that turn me on sexually have also turned me off politically. Not true of this work! There are few artists in this world who aren't afraid to step outside the boundaries of the expected, and Kloster is one of them. It was lovely to encounter images of women of different shapes, sizes, and ethnicities in porn. It was even better to see work that doesn't use the same five shots over and over again. You know what I'm talking about, right? Open a man's porn magazine. We have the blond, large-chested, woman with a vapid smile on her face wearing a sexy outfit, then topless, then nude, then masturbating, then a close-up of the genitals. Boring! Kloster isn't afraid to be different, and it shows.
Always before with porn, I felt that the male gaze was part of the picture. It was as much a part of the creation of the image as the lighting or makeup, and I didn't like it. I've often had the feeling that women portrayed in erotica were putting on shows for men, rather than just enjoying themselves. It's something in their body language. A certain degree of self-consciousness, perhaps? For whatever reason, that phenomenon was missing from this artwork. The women seemed natural, comfortable, at ease, and it deeply enhanced my enjoyment of the work. (Maybe porn made by women really is different!)
I would also recommend this book as artwork, besides just being sexy. Kloster's sense of style and photographic composition is very much in evidence, and she's definitely avant-garde, willing to toy with our expectations.
I never knew that I could enjoy visual erotica. Now that I know that work this wonderful exists, I'm on a hunt for more!

Rating:
Summary: This book changed how I think about erotica!
Review: My best friend gave me a copy of this book, and I thought, "Hmmm." I've never before found visual erotica that I truly enjoyed. As a kinky feminist, most of the naughty images I've been exposed to that turn me on sexually have also turned me off politically. Not true of this work! There are few artists in this world who aren't afraid to step outside the boundaries of the expected, and Kloster is one of them. It was lovely to encounter images of women of different shapes, sizes, and ethnicities in porn. It was even better to see work that doesn't use the same five shots over and over again. You know what I'm talking about, right? Open a man's porn magazine. We have the blond, large-chested, woman with a vapid smile on her face wearing a sexy outfit, then topless, then nude, then masturbating, then a close-up of the genitals. Boring! Kloster isn't afraid to be different, and it shows.
Always before with porn, I felt that the male gaze was part of the picture. It was as much a part of the creation of the image as the lighting or makeup, and I didn't like it. I've often had the feeling that women portrayed in erotica were putting on shows for men, rather than just enjoying themselves. It's something in their body language. A certain degree of self-consciousness, perhaps? For whatever reason, that phenomenon was missing from this artwork. The women seemed natural, comfortable, at ease, and it deeply enhanced my enjoyment of the work. (Maybe porn made by women really is different!)
I would also recommend this book as artwork, besides just being sexy. Kloster's sense of style and photographic composition is very much in evidence, and she's definitely avant-garde, willing to toy with our expectations.
I never knew that I could enjoy visual erotica. Now that I know that work this wonderful exists, I'm on a hunt for more!