Beautiful Agony is a paid-subscription
erotic
Eroticism () is a quality that causes sexual feelings, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality, and romantic love. That quality may be found in any form of artwork, including painting, sculp ...
website featuring head shots of user-submitted videos showing the participant having
orgasm
Orgasm (from Greek , ; "excitement, swelling"), sexual climax, or simply climax, is the sudden release of accumulated sexual excitement during the sexual response cycle, characterized by intense sexual pleasure resulting in rhythmic, involu ...
s, without providing any visual description of what technique is being used or revealing anything below the
neck
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and
upper chest. Men and women are featured on the site.
History
In 2003 Richard Lawrence and Lauren Olney created the initial video series. In 2004 beautifulagony.com was established as a commercial website. The site is owned and operated by Feck Pty Ltd in
Melbourne
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.
Description
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''.
Videos that do not look natural (too much makeup for example) are not accepted by the website's moderators.
In popular culture
Video clips of the website were part of exhibitions at the
Museum of Sex
The Museum of Sex, also known as MoSex, is a sex museum located at 233 Fifth Avenue at the corner of East 27th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It opened on October 5, 2002.
History
Founder Daniel Gluck wanted to start a museum dedicated t ...
in New York and at the
Hollywood Erotic Museum. The short film ''Anatomy: Face'' produced by Adele Wilkes and distributed by ABC Australia in 2011, focused on the users of Beautiful Agony.
Awards
* 2009: Best Adult Website at the
Australian Adult Industry Awards
See also
* ''
Blow Job
Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act consisting of the stimulation of a penis by using the mouth. Oral stimulation of the scrotum may also be termed ''fellatio'', or coll ...
'' (1963) – Warhol film
* ''
Eating Too Fast
''Eating Too Fast'' is a 1966 Andy Warhol film made at The Factory. It was originally titled ''Blow Job #2'' and features art critic and writer Gregory Battcock (1937–1980). The film is 67 minutes long and is, in effect, a black and white soun ...
'' (1966) – Warhol film
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Erotic art
Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke arousal. It usually depicts human nudity or sexual activity, and has included works in various visual mediums, including drawings, engravings, fil ...
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Erotic photography
Erotic photography is a style of art photography of an erotic, sexually suggestive or sexually provocative nature. It is a type of erotic art.
In a spectrum, erotic photography is often distinguished from nude photography, which contains nude ...
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External links
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Australian erotica and pornography websites
Internet properties established in 2004