Braille pornographic magazine launched for the blind

[nick]

A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched - complete with braille text and raised pictures of naked men and women.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01614/Tactile-Minds_1614767c.jpg

The book was designed by Lisa Murphy and is called Tactile Minds. It is designed to be 'enjoyed' by the blind and visually impaired - and is on sale for £150.

Among the 17 raised images include a naked woman in a 'disco pose', a woman with 'perfect breasts' and a 'male love robot'.

Ms Murphy, who is from Canada, said that she made the book to fill a gap in the market, adding: "There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults.

"We're breaking new ground. Playboy has an edition with Braille wording, but there are no pictures."

She said that she made the book after realising that the "blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images".

Between 1970 and 1985 Playboy printed copies of its famous magazine in braille - but without raised pictures.


Source here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7583766/Braille-pornographic-magazine-launched-for-the-blind.html)

[Jean Poutine]

She said that she made the book after realising that the "blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images".

and that needed to be remedied WHY? if anything i was glad that they couldn't get a glimpse of all the hypersexualised bullshit going on in the world.

[Mr. Smithers]

This is funny. I like how the pictures just pop up, so they could feel them.

[The Batman]

It's going to be kinda difficult for them to read porn while playing hand hockey.

[nick]

Well it seems kinda rotten to mock the blind. I guess there must be text books in braille for them to find out about puberty and bodies etc., I mean if you were born blind you wouldnt even know what the other sex looked like.

Anyway, it solves the question of what to do with your other hand...

[Kaius]

Hmm, well the idea seems good. But what I don't understand is if they don't want them to be left out why the fuck is it about £145 more expensive than our actual porn magazines lol?

[Sage]

That picture scares me.

[The Batman]

Hmm, well the idea seems good. But what I don't understand is if they don't want them to be left out why the fuck is it about £145 more expensive than our actual porn magazines lol?

And sadly they can't just go get them off the internet like us.

[Kaius]

Mm, if their one copy only things their gonna get realllly bloody bored.

[Giles]

And sadly they can't just go get them off the internet like us.

I thought you could buy braille printers for home computers. So they could type in braille with their braille keyboards then print it off... anyway. That would be interesting to watch.

[Sage]

And sadly they can't just go get them off the internet like us.

It's not porn if it's free.