RAGE-BAIT EROTICS VOL. 2 - PORN OF EVERYTHING IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

Cristina Chelaru
22 januari 2026

There was a Zen Buddhist from Ware.S
Who liked to see buttocks quite bare.
When it came reincarnation, he positively state.S
He'd come back as a cane bottom chair. S
Cane furniture is back via Dodi Ballada on Instagram  #dodiballada #dodiballadaart  



Cane furniture is back by Dodi Ballada, Digital Art series@dodiballadaart 


Early 1900's French Risqué Nude Watercolor


Editor’s Note:

Call it Blandemic Beauties, Hardcore Economics or How Porn Became Late Capitalism’s Favorite Hustle — either way, you know what we’re talking about. Porn has escaped the dim-lit private booths, the VHS tapes under dad’s bed, and the neon marquees of Times Square. 

Today it lives in your feed, in your DMs, in the algorithm’s black box. It’s everywhere and nowhere at once — omnipresent and oddly sanitized. 

This is a love letter (and a hate note) to porn in the age of endless scrolling, TikTok thirst traps, and OnlyFans influencers: the moment where erotic spectacle, rage clicks, and capitalism collide.


Anonyme Etudes de nu, femme assise bras croisés, entre 1900 et 1910 Musée d'Orsay


Anonyme, Sans titre Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France © Photo BnF


Annie Sprinkle, 1982 - Alice Neel's portrait celebrate queer world in London show, 2025 © The Estate of Alice Neel Courtesy of David Zwirner and Victoria Miro


Bordeeltjes: The Original Porn on Canvas. Brothels, Bawds, and Dutch Masters

 At the beginning of the seventeenth century, during trips to Italy, several young Utrecht artists learned to paint in the revolutionary style of Caravaggio, developing approaches that gained them fame and influence back home. The most successful of these “Utrecht Caravaggisti,” Gerrit van Honthorst, imported into this Italianate style a typically Northern theme: venal love.


Dirck van Baburen,  The Procuress, 1623, oil on canvas, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz


Dirck van Baburen, The Procuress, 1623, oil on canvas, Residenz, Würzburg


Gerrit van Honthorst, Merry Company (or The Prodigal Son), 1622, oil on canvas,  Alte Pinakothek, Munich 


His Procuress, Merry Company, and Musical Group stage beautiful courtesans in candlelit splendor, with clients to match — yet always shadowed by the grotesque, turbaned bawd. She is less a character than a cultural type, embodying suspicion of old women, inflamed by witchcraft panics and misogynist tropes.

Even as the Protestant Dutch Republic criminalized prostitution, the trade thrived — especially in Amsterdam, where bawds acted as “peddlers of vice.” Yet real life differed from art. Records describe women both ordinary and precarious, far from the lush courtesans and snarling hags of paintings. Still, bordeeltjes — brothel scenes — became wildly popular.


Danaë and the Shower of Gold, 1907 by Léon-François Comerre


Gerrit van Honthorst, Merry Company, ca. 1619-20, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence


Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Tavern or Brothel Scene, ca. 1545-50, oil on panel, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe


Who bought them? Where did they hang? Sometimes in the private halls of respectable burghers, sometimes in the art rooms of patrician homes, as if both cautionary tale and guilty pleasure. Critics  sniffed at such vulgar taste, but the contradiction was part of the thrill: sacred domesticity on the outside, forbidden desire framed on the inside.

Fast-forward four centuries, and the mise-en-scène hasn’t changed that much. The canvas has become a screen, the bawd a clickbait headline, the courtesan a sex worker with an OnlyFans login. The art of provocation — selling sin with one hand and wagging a finger with the other — is alive and well. Which brings us neatly to the here and now. 


Haifa- Turkish beauty, ca 1908  by Leon Francois Comerre

The above is just a fraction of the complete publication which is more than four times longer. Become a Premium member now and discover the gripping content behind the following article headings::

  • Sex, Scandal, and the Scroll
  • Erotics in the Attention Economy
  • The Porn of Everything
  • The Hustle: From Deep Throat to Deep Likes
  • Blandemic Beauties
  • Rage-Bait Erotics Strategy
  • Pop Culture Pornography
  • Porn vs. Art: The Eternal Blurred Line
  • What Porn Teaches Us About Capitalism
  • Final Climax

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