the erotic ball sac

[WickedEve]

I know over the years we've discussed what is it erotic. We've given our opinions on erotica vs. porn. As a reader, I feel that I can pretty much tell the difference between the two. I can click open an "erotic" poem, and many times I need to only read one or two lines to know whether the poem is indeed erotic or not.
I was reading some poetry this morning and came across an erotic poem that mentions a ball sac. I suppose it's possible to write a good ball sac poem, but normally, I don't find the word ball sac to be that much of a turn on.
Why do we have so many poems about ball sacs, dripping pussies, throbbing cocks, and bouncing boobs--ones with hard, aching, red, "oh, twist me" nipples? I was watching an advertisement for some movie last night. It said something like, "Prepare yourself for an adventure of a lifetime!" How many times have I heard that? Yeah, it has become a bit cliché, but I guess they keep using what works. People have been conditioned to get excited over adventures of a lifetime. Many readers respond the same way to hard cock and wet pussy--no matter how many freakin' times they hear it! It's like "I love you." I can't hear it enough. And I guess when I read a porn story, I do appreciate knowing that he's hard and she's wet. I guess I never get tired of that either. So, maybe all those poems full of manly ball sacs and her quivering woman lips are okay. But I still don't think they're erotic.

And I suppose this is just a ball sac rant.

 

[jthserra]

You know Eve...

one of the most erotic things I have ever read was in a poem of yours... I forget the title but the image is burned into my poetic consciousness.

the image was of a moth fluttering on a bedsheet... within the context of the poem the eroticism was incredible.

I certainly must agree with your ball sac rant...


jim : )

 

[WickedEve]

one of the most erotic things I have ever read was in a poem of yours... I forget the title but the image is burned into my poetic consciousness.

the image was of a moth fluttering on a bedsheet... within the context of the poem the eroticism was incredible.

I certainly must agree with your ball sac rant...


jim : )

I remember that. I think there was a ball sac under the bedsheet.

 

[jthserra]

I remember that. I think there was a ball sac under the bedsheet.

no... just your incredible, erotic imagery...

jim : )

 

[bogusbrig]

Eroticism is not my forte but after the last couple days were I have religiously read every poem I'm going to give it a go, I can't do any worse. Reading the New Poems too often could end up putting one off sex for life. With all those pumping arses and dripping and squirting body fluids, sex for most people must be like wrestling around in a dirty nappy (diaper). The blokes must have balls the size of fish tanks the amount of semen they gush over the thirsting woman, who appear to see it as some sort of magical elixir, using it both as a body lotion, a medicinal compound and for making a syllabub.

 

[Angeline]

Damn. I thought this thread was about Balzac.

 

[flyguy69]

Kim Addonizio: eroticism is what I like. Pornography is what you like.

 

[flyguy69]

Damn. I thought this thread was about Balzac.

There goes another keyboard!

 

[Angeline]

There goes another keyboard!

Yeah, you know--Honoré de Balzac. Not honoring da ball sac.

I gotta get outta that library more often.

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

as someone that considers herself an erotic poet...I simply must agree there is a huge difference in erotic v. porn. I just don't find alot of what I read to be erotic...
To me, erotic is something physcological...BB and I were having a converstaion about this very subject earlier this week. It takes more than a hard member and hot breath to get me going...use some metaphors or be creative with descriptions in more than the usual way (please)...

 

[bogusbrig]

as someone that considers herself an erotic poet...I simply must agree there is a huge difference in erotic v. porn. I just don't find alot of what I read to be erotic...
To me, erotic is something physcological...BB and I were having a converstaion about this very subject earlier this week. It takes more than a hard member and hot breath to get me going...use some metaphors or be creative with descriptions in more than the usual way (please)...

Though your poem today Hunter's Moon has no conscious erotic content, I felt it had a strong underlying erotic and pornographic sensibility. The passive brutality of it I guess, the sex/death syndrome, the one on one situation of the hunter and the hunted. A very visceral poem.

 

[Angeline]

The Key
Douglas Goetsch

I have memorized the coastline
of your key, fingering it
in my pocket all morning.
One chink reminds me of the gap
in your teeth. Another, the space
between your first two toes.
This whole jagged ridge could be
your heartbeat on an EKG.

Lunch hour, I drive over,
slip it in your door,
sit in your closet, smell
your clothes, unbuckle,
run your silk between my legs,
lie on sheets we melted on
the night before, when you reached down
and whispered, This belongs to me.

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

Though your poem today Hunter's Moon has no conscious erotic content, I felt it had a strong underlying erotic and pornographic sensibility. The passive brutality of it I guess, the sex/death syndrome, the one on one situation of the hunter and the hunted. A very visceral poem.

I think most of what I write has some sort of sexual undertone...that's me, Poetry slut!

 

[Guest]

I was reading some poetry this morning and came across an erotic poem that mentions a ball sac. I suppose it's possible to write a good ball sac poem, but normally, I don't find the word ball sac to be that much of a turn on.

Ball sac would have to have to have a heavy swing on humor, me thinks. Some of us can mix humor and erotic very well, but ball sac would be a harrrd one.

 

[WickedEve]

neo, you're too young and sweet looking to be talking about icky, old ball sacs.
But you're right about humor. I have a humorous/erotic poem that seems to successfully get away with ungh squeak, ungh squeak, ungh squeak, and butterscotch naugahyde. So... how long will it take you to write an erotic ball sac poem?

 

[flyguy69]

Ball sac would have to have to have a heavy swing on humor, me thinks. Some of us can mix humor and erotic very well, but ball sac would be a harrrd one.

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