Is LIT a "Porn" site?

[Zeb_Carter]

Triple EEE tits and 12 inch cocks, you damn betcha!

Damn, mines only eleven inches...around!

 

[THROBBS]

Close your eyes tight, Throbbs, and turn three times, and click your heels, and wish and wish and wish--and maybe then it won't be a porn site.

oh... I thought doing that would make you go home. rats.

 

[THROBBS]

I thot this was a pron site.

My mistake.

"Prawn," says the naked shrimp.

 

[jomar]

I should inquire with Laurel and Manu if that was their intent.

Did it degenerate to this? Is there really more "porn" than erotica"?

Seriously, I wasn't here in the early days, but from my appearance there has always been links to a variety of erotic images, webcam, chat, pay per minute porn vids and such. So in the aggregate, it seems to be a porn site. Top shelf, though, I like to think. The stories may underpin the site, but it is far broader.

 

[Guest]

"Prawn," says the naked shrimp.

What does a naked shrimp look like?

Tiny little tits? Miniscule member? All surrounded by a dozen teeny legs?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What does a naked shrimp look like?

Tiny little tits? Miniscule member? All surrounded by a dozen teeny legs?

Did you ever see a shrimp cocktail? Those are naked shrimp.

 

[TE999]

What does a naked shrimp look like?

Tiny little tits? Miniscule member? All surrounded by a dozen teeny legs?

Would that be prawnography?

 

[THROBBS]

Did you ever see a shrimp cocktail? Those are naked shrimp.

heeheee

 

[Stella_Omega]

Damn, mines only eleven inches...around!

Uhm no honey, that would be your frosty can of Bud Lite™ you've got in your hand there.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Uhm no honey, that would be your frosty can of Bud Lite™ you've got in your hand there.

I've heard of being "cold cocked" but that's ridiculous.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[shereads]

If I didn't like porn, I wouldn't be here.

Does that make it a porn site?

 

[tickledkitty]

I think all the pervs who hang out here make it a porn site.

(That was a joke.)


(Sorta.)

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Porn's sex is "instrumental," and exists solely to service the lust of the reader. Erotica's sex exists to service the story.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There's a whole multi-page ongoing thread on the difference between porn and erotica here. The most useful definition for my money is, porn is intended to do no more than sexually excite or titillate, while erotica has pretensions toward literature.

What Literotica is is moot, but who would want to visit a site called "Literporn"? It sounds like some sort of obscenity involving cat boxes.

 

[sr71plt]

Porn's sex is "instrumental," and exists solely to service the lust of the reader. Erotica's sex exists to service the story.

Which I guess means you vote yes, because I think a sampling of this site will show that sex is instrumental in a major of the stories posted here--and that there is little, if any story at all, in most of what is posted here.

 

[Guest]

There's a whole multi-page ongoing thread on the difference between porn and erotica here. The most useful definition for my money is, porn is intended to do no more than sexually excite or titillate, while erotica has pretensions toward literature.

What Literotica is is moot, but who would want to visit a site called "Literporn"? It sounds like some sort of obscenity involving cat boxes.

Literporn???

Leave my pussy outta this.

Mraow!

 

[The_Fool]

Literporn???

Leave my pussy outta this.

Mraow!

cat scratch fever?


Ted Nugent was on No Reservations tonight.

 

[Guest]

cat scratch fever?


Ted Nugent was on No Reservations tonight.

I've seen Ted in concert.

(Free for All is my favorite!)

 

[The_Fool]

I've seen Ted in concert.

(Free for All is my favorite!)

Saw him with Damn Yankees...

 

[starrkers]

Damn.
I started writing an essay last night on this exact subject.
Now, do I read this thread or write my essay?

 

[The_Fool]

Damn.
I started writing an essay last night on this exact subject.
Now, do I read this thread or write my essay?

read the thread and plagarize for the essay.

 

[kimbalee]

In your opinion, is Erotica always Pornography?

I see "erotica" as having some merit beyond just inciting sexual arousal.

I think that some "porn" has infiltrated the site, to be sure.



I have one powerful AV. ALONE it makes the site porn!

Okay... since you asked...

I first visited here years ago just to read. I never ventured to the other areas here. I never even read in the forums, strictly stories. Reading the stories doesn't really get me hot and bothered... I enjoy reading them, but don't feel aroused by it. (It never really occured to me that others masturbate to stories here, until I got comments on something I had written. That was an eye-opener. lol)

Hubby asked me one day a few years ago, looking over my shoulder, "So you're reading porn again, huh?" and laughed. I gasped and said, "I am NOT reading porn... it's, um... just a 'racy' kind of story... not porn at all... there are no pics or videos, just a story... " (I thought of it much the same as romance stories you can buy at the grocery store...but a little more vivid and detailed. I guess I consider porn to be illustrated... and then in varying degrees, but I don't know why. Keep in mind, I've led a sheltered life, and I have probably seen only about 4 or 5 movies, and not much beyond Playboy. )

Anyway, the categories I tend to read are pretty tame, and I guess I don't consider the vanilla flavor to be "porn" per se. (Maybe if I had a little exposure to "banana split" or some "raspberry sherbet" I'd change my tune.) lol

 

[DeeZire]

OK.

So, what do you think this site is about? Porn or erotica? or something else? Or .as Zeb suggests... both.

Me? I'm one of the 'Don't-know-it-alls' around here, but if you want my uninformed opinion, I'd say, considering that this site is advertised on some pretty raunchy porn sites, it's a porn site. There is erotica here, it's just hard to find if you're looking for it in the top lists.

I sort of wish there were two lists in each story category - the erotic list and the porn list, but where to draw the line between the two would be impossible to define, so here we are.

 

[mynameisben]

Is Literotica a Porn site or an erotica site? Oh my!

Let's see. The name starts with Liter, which suggests literary qualities of some measure. So, I suppose this website has or had highbrow intentions at some point. The name also ends with erotica, which lends even more support for the Erotica Site origins theory. But what's in a name, really? Literotica should be judged not by the color of its skin, but by the content of its character.

Literotica has stories about men and women fucking, stories about men and men fucking, and stories about women and women fucking. This is all well and good. People enjoy fucking, and reading about it can be as educational as it is stimulating. Educational and Stimulating are hallmarks of great literature. When I read pornography, the characters and events are frequently very memorable. People and scenes often come alive in my head as I read. I grow immersed and sometimes utterly lost in the moment. It never fails to amaze me how a hearty rush of ejaculate can flash-burn the details of a sizzling erotic story into my memory, or how often I find stories here at Lit that have precisely that affect on me.

That I cum, does that make Literotica's lit great pornography or great erotica? It would be arrogant of me, perhaps, to presume to be the lone, quivering yardstick. This website posts stories and allows its readers to vote. It's very democratic, really. I come here, and it makes me proud to be an American. I vote, and I usually vote very favorably. But it's not just me. Thousands and thousands of others come to Lit every day, the world over, to read the stories, to become educated and stimulated, and to participate in the last great bastion of democracy. We vote. We matter. Democracy wins the day, and we are all rewarded for it. Whether we read to cum solo, to learn a new technique, or simply to charge-up for a lover, we all benefit from reading erotica. If nothing else, erotica makes us better readers from sheer reading practice alone. Educational, stimulating, memorable and rewarding. . . does that make Lit's stories erotica, or is it pornography?

Define pornography? Screw it. The question is as loaded as my cock. One man's pornography is another man's erotica, and it will always be that way. We all live on different levels of sexual experience and pleasure. Ass-fucking stories may curl the short hairs of the moral majority, but the same stories will barely raise an eyebrow to the guy who, for the past thirty years, has been luring fire ants to crawl up his urethra before gang-fucking wildebeast. Not that I enjoy reading such stories, but you get my point.

We're all adults, and we all read what we enjoy. The truly adult among us don't waste our time labeling others by what they practice in their bedrooms or on kitchen countertops or their favorite anthill. We accept other adults for who they are, and we sure as hell don't try to backhandedly label them by what they read. It is only the small-minded, wannabe-adults who slither among us, who scramble desperately to be perceived superior, who puff themselves up and pound pulpits and waste their time and ours defining what is and what is not "pornography."

 

[Liar]

The word derives from the Greek πορνογραφία (pornographia), which derives from the Greek words πόρνη (porne, "prostitute"), γράφω (grapho, "to write or record"), and the suffix -ία (-ia, meaning "state of", "property of", or "place of"), thus meaning "a place to record prostitutes".

Ok so that settles it. Or not.