Point of view

[HisArpy]

Currently I'm plotting my next porn story and have run into a small dilemma.

The story can be told from the point of view of a woman or a man. The POV changes the plot a little bit, but not enough to make a meaningful difference, except possibly to the reader.



So, which POV would you prefer?

From the man's point of view? Or the woman's?


I did make the poll private so please vote and let me know what you want to read. My inbox is also open for those who aren't shy.

 

[dolf]

Not trying to offend, but I don't think you understand a woman's perspective enough to do it justice.

 

[HisArpy]

Not trying to offend, but I don't think you understand a woman's perspective enough to do it justice.

You don't know the plot, the situations I intend to put the characters in, or the personalities of those characters.

For all you know, it could be a story about enjoying sex on a bed of wildflowers on a hillside on a warm sunny day and feeling completely carefree. Which is completely applicable to either sex.


Saying that someone doesn't have a good perspective of the respective situations of the characters they create is kind of like telling Sci Fi writers that they don't know what they're writing about when they tell a tale about alien creatures which exist nowhere except in the mind of their creator.


And in the end, if I do it badly, THEN you can say "I told you so" and be 1 voice in the crowd of many who will either agree or disagree with you. Until then, all you have is your own perspective on something you have no actual understanding of. No offense intended.

 

[oggbashan]

It si usually easier for a male author to write from a man's point of view, but it can be an interesting exercise to write from the woman's POV.

But switching during the story is probably a turn-off for many readers.

 

[dolf]

Harpy You're always so emotional about shit! You asked, so just calm down.

I'm just saying that it's rare as hen's teeth for someone to get it right when it comes to sex. Even if you avoid the ridiculous cliché thought processes, you don't know the sensations.
Like Stephen king, who i absolutely adore. He might be one of the best horror writers, but the sex scenes are always just eyerollingly obvious as second hand experience when written from a female POV.
Yes, you get women who write the female perspective badly. But i struggle to think of a single time when a man has been able to capture it.
... I assume the same is true in reverse.

 

[KeithD]

Either or both (I'd like it better from both in sections blocked off from each other). There are readers for any perspective and no reason to think one is better for the "universal reader" (there not being any such person) than the other.

Also, this question would have been much better received and addressed by more if posted to the Authors Hangout.

 

[HisArpy]

Harpy You're always so emotional about shit! You asked, so just calm down.

When you level an insult, even when saying it isn't, be prepared to get a reply that triggers your fake "you're so emotional" button.

The rest of your comment only illustrates to me that you haven't read anything I've written.

 

[HisArpy]

Also, this question would have been much better received and addressed by more if posted to the Authors Hangout.

The poll isn't for authors, it's for readers. Few of whom bother to go to the Author's Hangout so posting there would be like asking Hemmingway and Tolstoy wannabes what they like to read.

I'd rather hear from the readership what they want.

 

[Carnevil9]

I think the situation is too complicated for such a simple question. I'd probably prefer it to be from the perspective of the submissive character, be it a man or a woman. And I'd prefer it to be from whichever perspective the author can better pull off. Hopefully those two preferences are not in conflict.

 

[KeithD]

The poll isn't for authors, it's for readers. Few of whom bother to go to the Author's Hangout so posting there would be like asking Hemmingway and Tolstoy wannabes what they like to read.

I'd rather hear from the readership what they want.

I answered that. You're grasping at straws. There are hundreds of thousands readers here. "They" want the full range of perspectives in which someone could write. You're not asking an intelligent question.

 

[Sean]

When you level an insult, even when saying it isn't, be prepared to get a reply that triggers your fake "you're so emotional" button.

The rest of your comment only illustrates to me that you haven't read anything I've written.

Ooh, this has Tim meltdown written all over it. Could you at least wait until half time in the match?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

The poll isn't for authors, it's for readers. Few of whom bother to go to the Author's Hangout so posting there would be like asking Hemmingway and Tolstoy wannabes what they like to read.

I'd rather hear from the readership what they want.

Who the fuck is your "readership?" We read you to point and laff and watch you meltdown.

and you would use "them" not "whom."

 

[HisArpy]

I answered that. You're grasping at straws. There are hundreds of thousands readers here. "They" want the full range of perspectives in which someone could write. You're not asking an intelligent question.

The question seems clear enough to me. Perhaps it is you who is attempting to make it more complicated than it needs to be for reasons of your own.

As for the readers, if "they" vote, I'll listen. Otherwise, it's just a few whiners complaining about a whole lot of nothingness. And, if the readership chooses not to vote, then I'll take that as a sign they don't care one way or the other and I'll just write the story the way I feel like writing it.

 

[HisArpy]

It si usually easier for a male author to write from a man's point of view, but it can be an interesting exercise to write from the woman's POV.

But switching during the story is probably a turn-off for many readers.

I did a multiple POV in a recent story that seems to have been accepted well. I changed POV with chapter breaks and wrote a warning at the beginning that it switched from him to her and that the timeline between the divergent plot lines wasn't sync'd.

No one gave me any flack for it in any of the feedback I received. Maybe that's because the way I modeled the change over was similar to another book I once read, although that one swapped every chapter.

 

[jaF0]

Not trying to offend, but I don't think you understand a woman's perspective enough to do it justice.

Fucker doesn't understand water.

 

[neci]

i would like to read about the man submitting to the woman from his point of view. specifically how it feels when he is taking her up his ass. thank you.

 

[HisArpy]

Fucker doesn't understand water.

What's not to understand? It's just 2 molecules of a volatile carbon based organic bonded with an oxydizer and maintained at a temperature which keeps it in a liquid state.

Or don't you know that?

 

[HisArpy]

i would like to read about the man submitting to the woman from his point of view. specifically how it feels when he is taking her up his ass. thank you.

Well then, you're in luck! There's a poll is at the top of this thread about that very question. Make yer choices and click on the little clicky places. TYVM

 

[dolf]

Fucker doesn't understand water.

Few people do. It's very unusual amongst liquids!

It's one of those things that everyone thinks they understand, because they're surrounded with it and have high school science, but if you learn just a little more you'll realise you barely know it at all.

You could almost use it as a metaphor...

 

[mayfly13]

Not trying to offend, but I don't think you understand a woman's perspective enough to do it justice.

I'm just saying that it's rare as hen's teeth for someone to get it right when it comes to sex.

Like Stephen king, who i absolutely adore. He might be one of the best horror writers, but the sex scenes are always just eyerollingly obvious as second hand experience when written from a female POV.

dolf is right.
I often came across stories on Lit., and the male autorship was is so obvious.
Stephen King was a rarity. I actually can't think of any non-erotic male writer who ever switched genres. They knew they couldn't pull it off.

The only way that it might work imo, is if HisArpy wrote in a female pov but intended for a male audience.

 

[SissySalina]

You just got to Lv the way all just jump in, it's so human.
As a sissy it is always more pleasurable to read a story written from the submissive point of view, whether that be female or male.
Just a sissy (and submissive) opinion.

 

[Sean]

What's not to understand? It's just 2 molecules of a volatile carbon based organic bonded with an oxydizer and maintained at a temperature which keeps it in a liquid state.

Or don't you know that?

It's one molecule, three atoms and there's fuck all carbon involved, Tim. And it's not organic.

 

[dolf]

It's one molecule, three atoms and there's fuck all carbon involved, Tim. And it's not organic.

H²0

It's sort of in the name. I thought everyone knew that?

 

[jomar]

The poll isn't for authors, it's for readers. Few of whom bother to go to the Author's Hangout so posting there would be like asking Hemmingway and Tolstoy wannabes what they like to read.

I'd rather hear from the readership what they want.

Funny you assuming GBers read the stories.

i would like to read about the man submitting to the woman from his point of view. specifically how it feels when he is taking her up his ass. thank you.

Lol, then you might consider checking out my Marion series. What started out as a straightforward strapon story took an unexpected and surprising turn so I went with it lather, rinse, repeat style.

 

[HisArpy]

Funny you assuming GBers read the stories.

There are many ghosts here who never post. I'm merely speaking to them and I've already received a couple of "anonymous" feedback responses about this through the email message feedback link for my stories.

OTOH, I'm well aware that some GB'ers don't know how to read at all. luk, Archie, rorbags, and a few others come quickly to the forefront of my mind as being blessed with ignorance on all things literary.