When Toulouse-Lautrec sketched the sex workers of France's red light district in the late nineteenth century, he knew he was doing something subversive. But his art wasn't just famous for being pornographic; he was a pioneer of showing that sex workers were real people. Flash forward to present day, and that notion still seems to be hard for some to accept.
Sex work is real work, and deserves to be dignified as such. While there is, of course, homemade porn and the cheesy kind that really does only have sex in mind, many consider the pornography landscape to be a place for creativity and art making. Enter: Pornhub, which recently launched "Classic Nudes," a new site and app that features pornographic reenactments — created by an amateur couple who goes by MySweetApple — of some of the most lascivious works housed at seven of the world's greatest art museums.
