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What’s Sexy Online VII: Five Senses Edition

Check out the Touch project at Fleshmap. The creators asked survey participants where on their own bodies they most like to be caressed and where they most like to touch their lovers’ bodies. Using this data (33,871 individual ratings!), the creators came up with two interactive maps of male and female bodies: Skin to Skin, a “heatmap,” and Sorting Out Desire, a collage of images of body parts whose relative size indicates their erotic allure.

Also check out the Look project, which graphically represents female breasts and male nipple hair.

Finally, check out the Listen project. One part of the project visually demonstrates how often various body parts are referenced in different musical genres, while the second deletes all of the text that doesn’t refer to body parts from various famous poems and songs, leaving only images of body parts separated by dots.

Zarb Champagne has bottles that will make your tongue (and maybe some other things) tingle. The website is pretty and interactive, but since it’s flash-based I can’t link you to the sexy Skin series of bottles. To reach the gallery, select the “Zarb” menu at the top of the main page, click on “Bottles” from the drop-down menu, and navigate to “Skin” on the sidebar.

Finally, educate yourself with this article about how scent influences sexual attraction.

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