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[Desiremakesmeweak]

Hey I don't know about 'most authors being male...' I don't see that at all. Well, depends how much stress you are putting on the 'most.' There are a lot of women writers here. Definitely. I know that personally I don't find myself reading stuff that only seems to be done by guys.

Yes, it's quite likely that if you stick to certain patches you are going to find predominantly males writing that territory - so I guess, move around and see...

Definitely definitely women writers here. I'm sure they get hassled a lot with pm's though.

How can you tell the writer is DEFINITELY a woman? Difficult. My mother wrote professionally and many times using the male voice and NO ONE EVER REALISED.

So it works both ways.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hey I don't know about 'most authors being male...' I don't see that at all. Well, depends how much stress you are putting on the 'most.' There are a lot of women writers here. Definitely. I know that personally I don't find myself reading stuff that only seems to be done by guys.

Yes, it's quite likely that if you stick to certain patches you are going to find predominantly males writing that territory - so I guess, move around and see...

Definitely definitely women writers here. I'm sure they get hassled a lot with pm's though.

How can you tell the writer is DEFINITELY a woman? Difficult. My mother wrote professionally and many times using the male voice and NO ONE EVER REALISED.



So it works both ways.

I agree, that you cannot always tell. The only category I can look at a story in and say "yeah, that's a guy" is in Lesbian.

I think, or at least I felt upon a time that women authors have an edge in that male readers think its hotter to read a story written by a woman who in their mind is smoking hot and writing erotica naked while playing with herself.

They would much rather imagine that then envision it by a guy who looks like me. Or an older author in their 60's to 70's.

I do still think that to a point, but have come to terms with I don't care what the reader wants to perceive.

I know there is a very popular incest series here written by a "male" author and at some point someone outed them as being a woman. I think in a category as taboo as incest there may be a lot of that going on.

But trying to figure the sex of an author is like trying to decide what sex is reading your writer. When I started I figured incest would be an almost all male readership, all I can say is wow was I wrong. I think "mom looks hot so hell yeah!" stories are more male readership, but longer more "romantic" angled incest stories have a heavy female readership.

End of the day I think my statement on the reader/writer gender is what difference does it make?

When I read a story I either like it or don't and what gender wrote it has nothing to do with it.

There's no need to over think things here, we read/write for fun.

 

[SevenSquared]

I have 197 submissions 186 stories, 11 poems, as oggbashan (male) and 20 more stories as jeanne_d_artois (female).

Purely out of interest, which author has the higher average rating?

 

[oggbashan]

Purely out of interest, which author has the higher average rating?

I'd have to use a calculator. Some of Jeanne's are dire. So are some of mine.

I think that Og rates slightly higher. I only have Ws and an E as oggbashan.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

lovecraft68... Yeah I also think this: 'what difference does it make?'

Personally I would love to generalize this way - more mature erotic-minded people ARE WA-A-A-Y more 'out-there' sexually than younger mid-aged adults who mostly all are quite conservative and think they will damage something (reputation/job/whatever) if they indulge hideously extravagant erotic desires. And then, er, there are always some individuals who are very good-looking, and very erotically inspired and daring and capable, from youth onwards to forever.

And then also, there are a handful of wicked evil sexy good-looking or just plain lust-generating women of otherwise undefinable and non-stereotypical looks who write absolute filth which makes them all the more attractive of course, while occasionally acting as if butter wouldn't melt...

And frankly, one of the reasons many women don't spend much time writing erotica, is that they are spending a damn lot of time reading it and actually DOING it and most of them are a quantum leap ahead of men as far as what stuff they will ACTUALLY DO AND WANT TO DO compared to the average male!

I live in a constant fantasyland where, however, erotica writers area all good-looking and will try stuff out for real pretty much all the time. Erotica writers are the elite of the elite as far as sex goes. And that goes for every gender including the mixies and the halfies and the H+ artificial intelligence robots from the future who walk among us even as we speak!

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

H+ ... Of which I am not one. Honest.

 

[sr71plt]

And frankly, one of the reasons many women don't spend much time writing erotica, is that they are spending a damn lot of time reading it and actually DOING it and most of them are a quantum leap ahead of men as far as what stuff they will ACTUALLY DO AND WANT TO DO compared to the average male!

I'm not buying into the premise that more men are writing erotica (maybe straight porn, but not erotica) than women to begin with, so I'd stretch out this phrase to include women spending the most time writing erotica as well. It sort of flies in the face of believability to hold that it's women, not men, interested in the emotional side of relationships and then think that more men than women are writing the emotional side of sex--which, to me, is what distinguishes erotica from straight porn.