A Question not a gripe

[Ray Dario]

Hey guys,

I have just gotten back into the swing of writing and submitting my stories to lit and once again I feel great about it. But I have a question that maybe you guys have some thoughts or feelings on.

Once again I am just asking for your thoughts and feelings, I'm not griping. Because I did ask for feedback and I got it, but one feedback from annonymous made me wonder.

Why do people who hate erotic fiction visit this site and read these stories?

I got a feedback which basically said something to the effect that I was just like all the other writers on literotica. All I did was write sexually explicit stories. This particular reader then said that he/she especially hated group sex stories because they were "even more lurid and sexual" than most. I had to look up the word "lurid". It made me feel pretty good. I hope that all my stories are "lurid".

So anyway the question is: Why would someone who hates sexually explicit stories be on this site reading these stories? Not that I mind, they have every right to be here and I did ask for feedback and it is great to get many different opinions, but it does strike me as odd.

Ray

 

[Whispersecret]

As a layperson who can't help but psychoanalyze people, I think it may have something to do with self-esteem and/or the battle between what they want conflicting with what they think is "right."

I think they enjoy reading erotica. I think they feel guilty for it. So, if they scold the writers, they can then think of themselves as "above," someone else. They can think to themselves, "Well, at least I don't spend hours thinking up this stuff and post it on a public forum." They can feel they've done something to help humanity if they attempt to set someone else back on the path of righteousness. Or some such rot.

 

[Mickie]

The word fanatic springs to mind. Imagine a person who so believes that porn is wrong that they will hop into a porn site and feedback everyone who asks for it in the forum. They glance at the story title and category. They might even read it so they can honestly say they disliked it. Then they tell the author how sick he is.

I'd say these people need a different hobby.

Mickie

 

[TheWriter]

To quote a little-known song from a well-known group:

"We're all fucked up!"

I think that sums it up nicely.

 

[Laurel]

Damnit...a couple of months or so ago, we received an email that would've been great to share right now, but I've upended my mailboxes and still can't find it...Anyhow, it was a "porn is evil" mail sent from someone who very patiently explained how sites like ours were wrong for tempting the "baser natures" of "good" people...how he felt "compelled" to visit the site, and we as a site by existing were "contaminating" his world. I think many people don't want to take responsibility for their own interests and needs. I think it's sad. If I thought adult material was wrong, I wouldn't visit adult sites. I don't understand people who knowingly participate in an act they view to be morally abhorrent, then blame the world for their weaknesses. But it's a common thing, apparently.

 

[Whispersecret]

Weird...I'm reading a book right now where the main character is lusted after by her stepfather (a very religious man) who feels that she's in the wrong for tempting him. (She does her level best to avoid him whenever possible.)

Scary, ain't it, how life mirrors fiction, or vice versa.

 

[English-Passion]

A few years ago I posted some stories on another board (now defunct) and had exactly the same 'problem'.

The was one lady who took great exception to any story that dared to include sex of any kind. Apparently, she wanted old-fashioned romance and completely missed the point that 99% of the stories were of a strongly erotic nature.

Every couple of weeks she would write a long diatribe condemning one author or another for being a pornographer - and always managed to pull dozens of supporters out of the woodwork.

In the end, the aggression these folks showed was too exhausting and I left the board.

Weird how some folks can't join something that actually fits with their interests - they are compelled to join something that doesn't and change it! It is a crazy power trip in my opinion.

English-Passion