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The new age of digital cameras has fostered a new movement of amateur style erotic photograhy. Well before digital cameras were around, and immediate sharing was available, an erotic photographer had to put some considerable effort into his craft. Film cameras required some ability to work successfully, lighting was more of a concern, and the moral climate made it more difficult to find a beautiful girl or woman who would be prepared to strip and pose completely nude. And after you'd taken a roll of artistic, erotic nude photos, you faced a bigger hurdle - where to get this "taboo" material developed and printed?
Digital cameras - from simple mobile phone cameras to professional grade DSLRs - are accessible to practically everybody. The types of nude photography that emerged have even been tagged with such names as "sexting", and allow people of all ages, shapes, and backgrounds to privately (sometimes) take snapshots of themselves. Nude photos that were shocking in the 1940s would be considered tame by today's standards. College coeds and 18-year-old girls send erotic portraits and "self-shots" of their nubile, nude young bodies to girlfriends and boyfriends alike. In fact, sharing nude, erotic photos can be an important factor of the modern courtship ritual.
Although it's tempting to examine erotic photography strictly from a male perspective, females have their own involvement in the art form. You can find young college girls, middle-aged thirty somethings, and even older retired ladies posing for erotic pictures. It's common for teens, as they get a bit older, to want to explore their erotic sides as it becomes easier to do, and more acceptable in their eyes. Later in life they will look at those artistic nude photos and recall the sexual vitality and beauty that eventually fades with the passing years.
Although hardcore pornography seems to dominate the adult field, it's very different from erotica, and erotic photography. In years to come those "shocking" hard-core pictures will be gathering dust in the spare room or in the back of a closet. Artistic, erotic, photographic images, however, will be collected in books, studied in universities, and displayed in prestigious art galleries the world over.
The emotions of sexual arousal rise and fall. Beautiful women's bodies at some point fade as well. The art of erotic photography captures the heat of the moment. It freezes and frames the glory of the exposed, female body. Today, it's easier than ever to save these memories for the future. Because of this, and so a lot more, erotic photography is one of the greatest, most widely used, and most long lasting artistic representations ever created.
