Sexual Art: Photographs That Test the Limits by Michael A. Rosen Buch

This is a book that presents transgressive images of explicit sex, and features what I call "non-standard penetration". These graphic, intimate and extreme photos shatter taboos, as the camera captures the activities that bring the subjects pleasure. From one fist to two fists to self-fisting, from knives to dildos to guns, real men and women -- with real bodies -- expose themselves in raw, joyous photos that reveal honest desire, unfettered by political correctness, convention or tradition. Can sexually explicit images be art? These images argue the answer is “yes”!

The subtitle of this book is "photographs that test the limits." Compared to the mainstream, these frank images will be shocking. However, take a moment and allow yourself to acknowledge that this is a bit different and carefully look again. Notice that all the participants are smiling, or have looks of ecstacy on their faces, or they are boldly gazing right at the camera. If everyone is proudly experiencing pleasure, is what they are doing truly "shocking?"

This work does test the limits. For me personally, it was too strong. There are about 55 images of men and women (not necessarily together by gender). The images have two general themes. The first is putting large objects like hands in various orifices of the human body. The second is body piercing (penises, etc) and apparently painful body adornment. This book might be of interest to the S-M enthusiast, but would probably repel most readers.