"Lisa J. Murphy doesn't make ordinary books. Most books are meant to be looked at, read only with your eyes. Hers are meant to be touched.
Her book Tactile Mind, which she hand-crafted herself, is meant to be felt up, to be precise. It is an erotic book for the blind and visually impaired, though it can be enjoyed by the sighted as well."- thestar.com
I wonder why no one came up with this idea earlier. We might argue that this is so unnecessary, given the kind of porn that is freely available- just a push away with our Bluetooth phones. But then, the blind need their erotica, don't they?
And then again, when it comes to sex, even the expert of us with all our functioning senses, we are all blind: who is to say we won't enjoy erotica in 3-D?
As John Donne so beautifully put it (I could never get it out of my head)-
"...Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below.
O, my America, my Newfoundland, ...
- Elegy XX
We need this.
