Era of Erotica

[impressive]

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In the past five years, perhaps while we were all watching Sex and the City, sexuality and erotica went mainstream, creeping out of the bedroom and onto billboards, escaping the sex shop for shelves at Target. There has never before been a time in America, experts say, when sex has been this in-your-face, this gratuitous in our culture.

And, a similar article from USA Today HERE .

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well, maybe. I've been hearing the same thing since I discovered sex myself.

I do think that the internet has caused a quantum jump in sexuality, though. Hard to believe, but when I first started using the web, oral sex was still considered somewhat exotic, I'd never heard of BDSM, and anal was something you only got to see in high ticket videotapes.

Now I come here and we talk politics one minutes and tit-fucking the next. Things are changing.

 

[impressive]

Just happy to see more mainstream acknowledgment at a time when I (we) am (are) trying to sell our work.



Now, about that tit fucking ...

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Could it be that they fear a new sexual revolution, one that will finally sweep away the old shame and fear of being something other than "vanilla" and PC?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Just happy to see more mainstream acknowledgment at a time when I (we) am (are) trying to sell our work.



Now, about that tit fucking ...

Oh yes. The fastest growing genre in all of publishing today is Romantica--romantic erotica--taking over from Sci Fi/Fantasy. The Harlequin and Tor readers want a little more heat in their bodice rippers, and publishers are scrambling to fill the need. Outfits like Ellora's Cave have gone from basement publishing to multimillion in a couple years.

It turns out that women do like sex! It wasn't all just an act like we were told.

The downside is that there are some very talented authors out there working in erotica now so the competition is getting...er...stiffer. The last volume of Best American Erotic Fiction included work by John Updike and David Sedaris. (I love Sedaris, but it's hard for me to imagine him writing a real sizzler. )

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Could it be that they fear a new sexual revolution, one that will finally sweep away the old shame and fear of being something other than "vanilla" and PC?

I was walking by Marshall Field's in the Loop last summer and couldn't believe their window displays. Women's fashions (girl's really, I guess), blatantly BDSM, right there in one of Chicago's high-end, rather conservative department stores. No whips, but collars, cuffs, chains, ripped stockings, the works.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Well, the prudes in this country need a swift kick in the ass, so I hope that this "mainstreaming" trend will be it. I'm tired of repressive assholes like the religious right trying to stamp out individuality and shove their Puritan morality down my throat. I had enough of that as a teen.

 

[Liar]

Could it be that they fear a new sexual revolution, one that will finally sweep away the old shame and fear of being something other than "vanilla" and PC?

Y'know, depending on the domain, that sexual revolution have been and gone. In some parts of what can be considered mainstream, vanilla is a stigma of it's own. Alternative is the new black, dontcha know?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Y'know, depending on the domain, that sexual revolution have been and gone. In some parts of what can be considered mainstream, vanilla is a stigma of it's own. Alternative is the new black, dontcha know?

Not here, anyway. Ideally, there would be no stigma attached to any lifestyle involving consenting adults being honest and fair to each other.

 

[Belegon]

Not here, anyway. Ideally, there would be no stigma attached to any lifestyle involving consenting adults being honest and fair to each other.

I'm afraid that ideal is a long way from a country that voted in Georgie Boy...

I too am pleased by the growth and I think it is entirely appropriate to celebrate the good things that have happened. But I also still work a job where I could literally be fired for being a porn writer...

 

[Stella_Omega]

David Sedaris, erotic?
John Updike- the BEST of erotica????
I adore Updike- but as an erotica writer, I am unimpressed.
I can't imagine being turned on by anything Sedaris writes, at all. The man repulses me.