Customer Reviews

Very Naughty Origami

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VNO is a delightful book and well worth collecting for any lover of paperfolding who also enjoys novelty folds. The diagrams are very clear and models are at an accessible skill level, making them ideal for beginners to the art of origami and easily memorized so you can amaze your friends next time you're at a party, flirting with a pretty partner, or just out enjoying a pint. While at first glance, the more puritanically minded might recoil or take offense at the subject matter of the book, Nick Robinson also engages the reader with an entertaining history of Naughty Origami. In addition each fold is prefaced with an enjoyable discussion of the model - including trivia, history, suggestions for folding and suitable display scenarios. This is one of the few books on my shelf that is as much fun to read through as it is to fold from.

I am a complete & total beginner at origami, I was able to make almost all of the figures after a couple of tries each. The text was also quite amusing, the instructions are pretty clear.

I also bought Pornogami. Those figures are much harder to make, after doing most of the ones in Very Naughty Origami a couple of times I was able to make several from Pornogami.

In general the figures in Pornogami are more complex, elaborate, erotic, and more difficult and more time consuming to make.

The origami were very well received by men and women alike at an adults only party.

The whole idea of sexy or objectional origami is lost in the general origami culture. This book preserves a lot of art that was otherwise extremely hard to come by - and most of it is elegant and interesting. I think the models from this book should be displayed at conventions and discussed in origami gatherings, just the same as any other model. But sadly, it seems most people regard origami as something for small children who should not know anything about sex. So, merely bringing up the existence of models such as those depicted in this book is enough to enrage many people. It's very nice to see books coming out on this subject at long last. Hopefully people will learn to relax and enjoy harmless little models like these.

Very fun, creative ideas, though for some of the finished products it was very hard to tell what they were, even in the pics. The "Boobs" were especially vague.

Buy two - one to keep and one to give. The narrative is hilarious, the trivia is cool, and the origami is lots of fun. Set it out at your next party with a stack of paper squares and watch what happens...

This was okay, was not what I was really looking for, but okay for fun.

The instructions are clear, but the items are not. It is a shame because this could have been a very cute book of cleaver items to fold and show off...I will stick to folding cranes and butterflies.