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Canadian publishes porn for the blind

This handout image obtained April 16shows a tactile picture of a man dressed as a frog prince. AFP

OTTAWA, April 17, (AFP) - Photographer Lisa Murphy believed the blind lacked access to our “much sexualized” world, so she decided to create a new kind of pornography, with tactile images, the first designed especially for the blind.

“When I had the idea, I started looking around and I realized there were no nude books out there for the blind,” the Canadian artist told AFP.

“We live in a society that is much sexualized -- just look at advertising,”she said by telephone from her Toronto home.

“But if you can't see then you are probably not aware of how sexualized it is.””And I believe that vision-impaired people have been (wrongly) left out of the experience.”

”Or course, anyone can find it erotic, not just the vision-impaired,”Murphy added. The book, entitled “Tactile Mind,” features pages made of thermoform plastic -- the same material used for Braille.

Each page contains raised images of naked men and women in various poses, some wearing masks or in suggestive bondage, along with titillating phrases in Braille.

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