Cliche

[yukonnights]

Write stories that don't use those cliche and if they are successful, people will see that you don't need to use those cliches. Authors use "36C" because they've seen it used in successful stories.

I wonder if anyone would notice if I wrote; "She had perfect C36's bouncing and teasing every eye in the saloon.... " Sound's kinda edgy to me (I should probably copyright that)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Zealously stand guard against the rising tide of clichés that looms ominously, ever-threatening to engulf your work in a sea of banality.

(Number twenty-six from my "ABCs of Good Writing)

 

[8letters]

I'm disappointed by how few cliches you folks have come up with:
* "36C"
* Various ridiculous dick sizes - "as thick as a can of Red Bull", "my 9-incher", "Fourteen inch throbbing love python"
* "She turned the heads of every man in the room and a few women too."
* "I was harder than I've ever been in that moment..."

Actually, "36C" would be a huge improvement as I've seen so many stories where all the women are at least DD's. For stroker stories where the attraction is purely physical, I'd expect the women to have huge tits and the men to be hung like horses.

I don't know if these are cliches as they are things that I've seen over and over despite them being improbable if not phyically impossible:
* The hymen is located a little way down the vagina
* When the couple starts fucking, the woman cums right away and then cums over and over again as they fuck. The very excited male lasts forever before cumming
* The young inexperienced man is a commanding lover who knows lots of tricks to satisfy the older woman that the woman has never experienced before (very common in mother-son stories)
* The man and the woman finish their fuck by cumming at almost the same time
* The guy is so hung that his dick is huge while it's flaccid
* A woman has been straight her whole life. The male character becomes sexually attracted to another woman and the first woman discovers she's bisexual with an intense sexual attraction to the male character's new sex interest
* Bisexual women are sluts who's main goal in life is keeping their male partner happy

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Point taken. The C cup was simply an example.

You have however made a good point. There are, I think, (at least) two entirely different forms of cliché. Not being a semantician, I might call them linguistic vs cultural. (If somebody knows the real terms, I'd be interested in hearing them.)

On the one hand, "thick as a Red Bull can" is linguistic. They are simply a means of describing something. ‘Tits like melons’ and ‘hung like a bull hamster’ are others.

On the other hand, at the risk of going all Jungian, society and its sub-sets have cultural expectations, preferences or myths. Your list seems to be mainly comprised of those. They express a cultural mind-set. Girls with a big bosom are easy. Muscle-bound men are well-endowed. Hookers are all nice girls waiting to be rescued.

The interesting thing, I think, is that the second set of expectations can change with time. Consider that the heroine in The Story of O had her pubis waxed towards the end of the book. At the time, this was daring, even shocking and served to accentuate her descent (ascent?) as a sub. Today? What porn actress isn’t shaved? What was once deviance is now the norm.

As another example, consider the current ideal female form – slender, big boobs, etc. Using this stereotype for porn in the time of Peter Paul Rubens in the 1600s would have been a disaster. Rubens was an outstanding artist and it can be assumed that he could have portrayed any form he wished, yet his female subjects are all what we would today consider ‘chunky’ at best. Venus – the goddess of female beauty, for heaven’s sake – is portrayed as having a double chin! This is the ideal of feminine beauty? It was to Rubens (and no doubt his peers and customers), but it isn’t mainstream today.

(I was going to attach a photo, but am having trouble. Those interested can go online - Rubens' Venus in front of a Mirror is a classic example.)

So, I guess my point is that our expectations or standards are as much clichés as a DD cup.

Does that make any sense?

 

[ElectricBlue]

... and ‘hung like a bull hamster’...

That's clever!