How a new generation of artists is exploring female sexuality

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Platforms like Instagram are giving a new generation of women, a space to explore their sexuality on their own terms.

, is another illustrator who uses her erotic art to rewrite her own narrative: “I started drawing a lot of erotic depictions of female nudes because it was a way for me to almost embody this character, these positive sexual experiences.” Like Krim, her erotica was born out of her own difficult encounters: a series of toxic relationships which left her feeling gaslighted or slut-shamed.

But Peck is fully aware of the challenges that exist when depicting sexually strong women without reverting to the male gaze. A term coined by cultural critic Laura Mulvey, who wrote in her 1975 essay"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" that, “the determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Whalen’s erotic art started in her second year at a small arts college in Seattle, Washington when she made a giant vulva sculpture that was painted really fleshy with a gloss on the inner lips and lots of hair. “People were pissed,” she says. Even though a guy a couple of grades ahead took images of women with excessive amounts of plastic surgery from porn and ads, and ran them through a Xerox machine, distorted the body parts and painted them, everyone thought that was the cool and evocative.

 

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