Lost Girls

Rumor has it that the genus of Eyes Wide Shut came when Stanley Kubrick and a couple of friends watched some porn many years ago, and wondered: 'wouldn't it be interesting if something like this was done by somebody who actually had some talent?'

Well, Eyes Wide Shut was what Neil Gaiman calls an "ambitious failure", but here is somebody else giving a stab at making fine art and erotica merge: Alan Moore's Lost Girls.

There is also a very interesting interview with Alan Moore.
Quote: "It just seemed a bit strange to me that we seem to be laboring under this very odd idea that there is something wrong with looking at depictions of people having sex, and there must be something wrong, because you might get aroused. And yet, it’s perfectly all right to have the most insanely elaborate and intricate acts of violence portrayed everywhere... I know that there has been sort of an argument that, ‘Oh, well, pornography causes rape, because most rapists have read pornography at some point in their lives. I should imagine that they’ve also drunk milk. But, whether there’s a direct connection, I doubt it. And it has to be said that in countries where they have a more liberal approach to pornography, such as Denmark or Holland, that they have far, far less raped and murdered children thrown into the canal as we do over here in England."

Alan Moore is one of the finest writers in comic books ever, and created the comics on which From Hell and V For Vendetta were based. (He is famous though for hating Hollywood in general and film versions of his own comics in particular.)