It’s starting to look like we’re having porn critique week here in the sex-blogosphere. VS of Dilemmas of a Virgin Slut actually kicked it off last week but she’s still going strong this week. I think it’s a great idea.

VS has been providing unfortunate examples: A model trying to use soft bananas in the kitchen, a model who keeps using the same bunched-up top as a general accessory, a guy with a ghastly mullet performing “cunnilingus” on a coffin-tan shrike with equally cliche porn hair. All well and good, but what do we really want?

Here’s a nice start from Cookiebush:

(click here to read her entry)

Got all ready for work this morning only to realize my son was sick and I had to stay home with him. As I un-work-day-ed myself, I caught a glimpse in the mirror of my new bra and my shirt. [...] So I had to get out the camera.

That’s a cool description of the erotic in everyday life and the photo to illustrates it nicely. How many men have found themselves peeking at their partners half dressed, even though they’ve just seen them, or are about to see them, completely naked? I dunno. It’s just erotic all in itself. It happens all the time, maybe every day, but it doesn’t lose its appeal.

In my not-at-all-humble opinion good pornographers recognize that effect and use it as the basis for everything else they do.