“It’s like the Andy Warhol factory, but with my dick.”
Though a variety of things turn us on, Western cultures tend to be very standoffish on topics related to sex. Gay culture, however, tends to be a little more open. I've seen things as interesting as a guy using a toothbrush inside his foreskin to get himself off, to a guy attaching a dildo to the seat of his bike (and I guess a camera, too) and riding around his neighborhood. I know you've seen a few things on Grindr / Craigslist that are pretty out there. Just yesterday, I saw a guy wearing an adult diaper. I've also had a guy ask me if I could walk all over his stomach while he jacked off.
As diverse of a species as we are, with a wide variety of things that get us off, have you ever heard of someone being aroused by painting?
If not, now you have; meet Brent Ray Fraser.
I should have put a “Trigger Warning” on that photo. Are YOU now aroused by HIM?
Brent Ray Fraser is a Vancouver-based exotic-dancer-turned artist. He was previously known for a project, called “Modern Man”, which was a performance piece. He walked up to a table placed in front of Carnegie Center, and ate dinner. Naked. As passersby gathered and took pictures.
Brent Ray Fraser eats nude on E. Hastings Street in Vancouver, BC from Brent Fraser on Vimeo.
“It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.”
In 2009, he began using his cock to paint his works, some of which are up to 12-feet wide. Brent’s cock has painted Marilyn Monroe, The Mona Lisa, and now Obama. And the cock is as nice as the body and face it is attached to! Since I know you’re wondering:
Fraser uses both his erect and flaccid penis, as well as his balls, to create his art.
“If I’m doing a large-scale painting, having my dick be flaccid is better from a technical point of view” Fraser said, in a recent interview with VICE.
But for imprints, his erect cock works best.
“The paint is cold and it’s hard to stay hard, so I tie it off. And working on the art gets me aroused,” he explained.
He’s not kidding about being aroused either.
“I use the paint to masturbate and finish off by cumming on the painting. Signing it with my DNA.”
I’ve used some interesting things as lube, but I can honestly say I have not used paint.
Due to this, Fraser refers to himself as being “artsexual”.
“I get a lot of emails every day, mostly from gay men trying to hook up with me. I tell them I’m artsexual. My work is highly erotic so I get all my sexual satisfaction from it.”
So being “artsexual” is a thing, I guess.
If you’re wondering if the paint is damaging, Fraser works mostly with water-based acrylic paints, to avoid skin poisoning. A doctor once told him that smoking is more harmful than putting paint on your cock.
Fraser isn’t the first artist to use his cock as a paintbrush – let’s neither forget Tim Patch, AKA Pricasso, nor Uwe Max Jensen, who painted a small portrait of Kin Kardashian – but is the most established, takes it the most serious, creates the biggest works, and is undoubtedly the hottest.
Even though Brent is an exhibitionist and artist by trade, he lives an ironic life, as he considers himself an introvert. To recharge, he usually paints in his studio – clothed. But where’s the fun in that?