Stark is one artist who came up in every conversation I had about ASCII art. “Everything she does is clean and elegant,” one ASCII artist, who has been involved in the community for 18 years and who requested anonymity to avoid their employer connecting them to their art, told me in an email. “Her rendering of Mary Poppins is the first image that comes to mind when I think of good ASCII art. It's simple, instantly recognizable, and if I may, practically perfect in every way.”ASCII artist Laura Brown (“ldb”) started making ASCII art in 1998 while participating in newsgroups dedicated to the subject. She told me in a Twitter message that the form probably started simple: “I think the simple things like (_|_) butts and boobs (o)(o) were the earliest sex/ adult ASCII porn.”But it didn’t remain simple boobs and butts for long. Some of it was beautiful and refined, like animator Mike Jittlov’s 1993 creation “Meriday in the Morning.” Other examples of the genre are much more complex, including a game where you masturbate in PETSCII.“I wanted to make things using old computers that were a bit more arty and outsider, and move it away from that Big Bang Theory style nerd culture where things have to be done a certain way"
ASCII artist Carsten, known as Roy, has a very delightful collection of ASCII nudes catalogued on his website.
Asciipr0n.com contains a huge archive of text files, mostly pornographic
There’s a pretty large collection archived on the Internet Archive from the now-offline asciiporn.us
The subreddit r/ascii_porn is just waiting for someone to bring it back from the dead.