Beautiful Agony is a paid-subscription erotic website featuring head shots of user-submitted videos showing the participant having orgasms, without providing any visual description of what technique is being used or revealing anything below the neck and upper chest. Men and women are featured on the site.[1]
Type of site | Erotic |
|---|---|
| Owner | Richard Lawrence & Lauren Olney |
| URL | beautifulagony.com |
| Registration | monthly subscription |
| Launched | 2004 |
| Current status | active |
History edit
In 2003 Richard Lawrence and Lauren Olney created the initial video series.[2] In 2004 beautifulagony.com was established as a commercial website. The site is owned and operated by Feck Pty Ltd in Melbourne.
Description edit
The website is subscription-based. It does not display advertising. Users post videos of themselves (framed from the shoulders up) having a sexual orgasm and can share their sexual experience in a description area. Users of Beautiful Agony are nicknamed Agonees.[3] Videos that do not look natural (too much makeup for example) are not accepted by the website's moderators.[4]
The company that owns the website, Feck, also operates the website I Shot Myself and the Australian erotic art show Feck:Art.[5]
In popular culture edit
The band The Sun used Beautiful Agony's clips to make the music video for the song "Romantic Death". A fan-made video also used clips from the site for The Joy Formidable's Austere. Images of Beautiful Agony are used by the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam in their exhibition Teen Facts about puberty.
Video clips of the website were also part of exhibitions at the Museum of Sex in New-York and at the Hollywood Erotic Museum.[6] The short film Anatomy: Face produced by Adele Wilkes and distributed by ABC Australia in 2011, focused on the users of Beautiful Agony.[7]
The phrase "Beautiful Agony" first appeared in popular culture in Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, on page 245.
Awards edit
- 2009: Best Adult Website at the Australian Adult Industry Awards[3]
See also edit
- Blow Job (1963) – Warhol film
- Eating Too Fast (1966) – Warhol film
- Erotic art
- Erotic photography
Notes edit
- ^ "7 Best Places To Find Porn You & Your Partner Will Both Enjoy". bustle.com. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "2006 article about the website, founders" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-29.
- ^ a b Justin Dimos (26 February 2009). "Beautiful Agony: The New Naked". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ Jessie Sage (25 September 2020). "Peepshow: The Fetishization Of The 'Natural' Look". Pittsburghcurrent.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ James Norman (23 September 2014). "Art takes on pornography in 'socially responsible' erotica show". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ Melissa Stranger (11 May 2016). "These pics capture the weird and wonderful faces people make while masturbating". Revelist.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ "Artscape: Anatomy: Face". Abc.net.au. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2020.