Lust for Life: Get Ready for the Wild New Erotic Arts Revolution

M. Christian
6 Min Read

Boundless opportunities for personal sexual creativity are right around the corner

Emotionally, spiritually, and, not least of all, physically, consensual sexual activity can be a whole lot of fun.  But do you know what else is often just as exciting?

The answer is using music, literature, visual media, and—what’s making things increasingly exciting—the countless absolutely fascinating creative technologies now available for erotic expression.

So let’s look at a few of these state-of-the-artistic tools and how you can use them to join today’s mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, and breathtaking imaginative erotic art movement—or merely enjoy discovering a new way to turn yourself on.

Making your erotic dreams a physical reality

3D printing and sextoys may not—as yet—be a good match, but there remains a thriving erotic model-making community where for the cost of a good, mid-range filament or resin printer and your choice of several free or affordable computer-aided design (CAD) programs you can print as many alluring, sexually explicit miniatures as you want.

The software does take some time and practice to get right. However, sites like Cults3D are chocked full of free or not-very-expensive pre-made figures for you to play with until you’re proficient enough to attempt to create your own.

For the ecologically aware, note that filament printers, especially those using biodegradable PLA, are decidedly less impactful than resin ones as the latter’s liquid medium needs to be periodically disposed of—though for highly detailed miniatures, nothing tops resin printers.

With a little help from your AI friends

Sometimes you know precisely what you want to make, but for whatever reason, you can’t seem to get it out of your head and onto the paper or your computer screen.  

Enter the growing-ever-popular world of adult-oriented AI image generation sites, where, after telling it what you want to see, the software does the rest—or at least tries to, as it’ll likely take several attempts before you and it get on the same page.  

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Still, by making you spell out your desires, usually extremely precisely, the process can be artistically engaging and could perhaps also lead to otherwise unknown and wholly unexpected sexual insights. 

Welcome to your (virtual) studio

For all its famed immersiveness, which explains why it’s become an adult entertainment mainstay, it’s easy to forget VR animation can be as exciting to create as it is to watch.  

As painters have their brushes and canvas, sculptors their clay and wheels, virtual reality artists need the right tools, starting with a high-enough VR rig to handle the necessary processing—which probably necessitates a computer-assisted model rather than stand-alone ones like the Meta Quest 2—and software such as Quill, Open Brush, or AnimVR.

As with 3D printing, you can get used to how VR animation works using pre-made models until you graduate to doing everything by yourself.  

What’s also exceptionally cool about VR and 3D printing is how they can complement one another, especially as both use basically the same sort of modeling software. So, moving from one to the other may be considerably simpler and less stressful than trying to pick up a chisel after getting used to watercolors.

Making friends, making lovers

More out there than most of the options on our list, the burgeoning, do-it-yourself artificial companion modding community is worth mentioning.  

They may lack the resources high-end manufacturers have at their disposal, but they more than makeup for it in inventiveness and imagination—for instance, the modders are able to take otherwise generic off-the-shelf models, and through a combination of tweaking and expertly applied make-up, turn them into true works of art.

The joy of sex—and creation

The act of creation is special, whether you want to share your creations with others or keep them as private delights, try not to think about succeeding, whatever that is, and instead simply try to find pleasure in doing it instead.

When working with a new medium, don’t worry so much about the finished product but instead let yourself be playful, enjoying pleasure in the process itself. 

However, some people may not understand your interest in creating erotic art. Should that occur, hold onto the fact you’re doing what few dare to—which is special, no matter what you end up making or how long it takes you to do it.

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M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex. Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.” Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian. As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2. M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise. Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex. If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro. M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.