My Department Knows I'm a Pornographer.

[Joe Wordsworth]

So, I had this paper to write for one of my courses on women in Christianity--which I think is boring. I decided to write about women /pornographers/ in Christianity instead and asked for some people who'd not mind being interviewed--this is was a month or two ago.

I got the paper back and ace'd it (thanks, everyone), and explain in the preface chapter how I know these people and whatnot.

So, my professor takes my paper and when she was grading it she walks it across the hall to the Chair's office (him and I go back a ways) and says "Bill, Flannel's paper has pornstars in it", to which the philosophy chair's response was "Are there... pictures?"

Heh.

So when I turned in my big forty-something page dissertation, I got some responses about it and one of them was "...and is it true you're a part of the porn industry?" from one of the faculty.

Its a lot of fun. I get all these great questions and impecable street cred.

 

[Guest]

So, I had this paper to write for one of my courses on women in Christianity--which I think is boring. I decided to write about women /pornographers/ in Christianity instead and asked for some people who'd not mind being interviewed--this is was a month or two ago.

I got the paper back and ace'd it (thanks, everyone), and explain in the preface chapter how I know these people and whatnot.

So, my professor takes my paper and when she was grading it she walks it across the hall to the Chair's office (him and I go back a ways) and says "Bill, Flannel's paper has pornstars in it", to which the philosophy chair's response was "Are there... pictures?"

heh.

Perv.

Very happy to hear that was the response, however.

 

[slyc_willie]

Maybe you should have included pics! LOL

 

[Huckleman2000]

ROFL!
Reminds me of the sort of response I got when I wrote a piece referencing multi-player online games, eg, Everquest. I started getting questions about all sorts of 'fringe' activities, including online porn.

People are just insatiably curious about activities that, however mainstream, are generally considered 'frivolous' enough not to merit serious consideration.

Well done!

It's good to know that serious Philosophy scholars haven't deviated too far from the roots of the subject.

 

[English Lady]

So, I had this paper to write for one of my courses on women in Christianity--which I think is boring. I decided to write about women /pornographers/ in Christianity instead and asked for some people who'd not mind being interviewed--this is was a month or two ago.

I got the paper back and ace'd it (thanks, everyone), and explain in the preface chapter how I know these people and whatnot.

So, my professor takes my paper and when she was grading it she walks it across the hall to the Chair's office (him and I go back a ways) and says "Bill, Flannel's paper has pornstars in it", to which the philosophy chair's response was "Are there... pictures?"

Heh.

So when I turned in my big forty-something page dissertation, I got some responses about it and one of them was "...and is it true you're a part of the porn industry?" from one of the faculty.

Its a lot of fun. I get all these great questions and impecable street cred.

It must be a thill to know you're thought of like that -I wonder how many folks have actually been shocked by it?

oh and congrats on your good marks too

 

[Guest]

so are there pictures?

and are u gonna share them with us?

 

[scheherazade_79]

It's not pornography. It's art.

 

[S-Des]

It's not pornography. It's art.

Speak for yourself, I write nothing but smut. I'm artistically challenged.

 

[English Lady]

It's not pornography. It's art.

Joe writes porn, bloody good porn in fact.

 

[LonelyMom]

I, too, am a closet pornographer. Until a few months ago (when I wrote my first story) my life was an open book. Now I have this secret dark side that nobody would even believe. I'm proud of the things that I've written and part of me wants to crow about it. However, when you live in a town with a population of 300, there is no such thing as sharing a secret with just one person. Thank God there is a community of souls out there like you guys who don't judge a person so harshly. I've never done anything like this in my whole life and I kind of like the feeling. It's so liberating!

 

[MagicaPractica]

So, I had this paper to write for one of my courses on women in Christianity--which I think is boring. I decided to write about women /pornographers/ in Christianity instead and asked for some people who'd not mind being interviewed--this is was a month or two ago.

I got the paper back and ace'd it (thanks, everyone), and explain in the preface chapter how I know these people and whatnot.

So, my professor takes my paper and when she was grading it she walks it across the hall to the Chair's office (him and I go back a ways) and says "Bill, Flannel's paper has pornstars in it", to which the philosophy chair's response was "Are there... pictures?"

Funny, I think of myself as an erotica author.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Funny, I think of myself as an erotica author.

It's both amusing and annoying to know that there are people in the world that don't differentiate between porn and erotica...

 

[English Lady]

Erotica just happens to get a person sexually excited in the course of it, Porn is made to get people sexually excited as it's sole (or highest) priority.


Sometimes I write erotica, other times I write porn -I'm not offended to be called a porn Authoressor an Erotic Authoress 'cos I'm both

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I consider myself a Porn author, even though more of my stories are Erotica. I just miss my goal of wall to wall sex by actually writing a plot for some of my stories

 

[MagicaPractica]

Erotica just happens to get a person sexually excited in the course of it, Porn is made to get people sexually excited as it's sole (or highest) priority.


Sometimes I write erotica, other times I write porn -I'm not offended to be called a porn Authoressor an Erotic Authoress 'cos I'm both

I think definitions on this are debatable and somewhat subjective. But, using the one you provided. You could say I've written both for this site. I prefer the term erotica. It just has more style.

 

[English Lady]

I think definitions on this are debatable and somewhat subjective. But, using the one you provided. You could say I've written both for this site. I prefer the term erotica. It just has more style.

they're taken loosely from dictionary definitions I found when I was writing an article on my writing -at the time I found I was more of a pron writer than an erotica writer -I think it'd be different now

 

[Pure]

selena said,

SIt's both amusing and annoying to know that there are people in the world that don't differentiate between porn and erotica...

P:that's very simple: I and you, my good friend, write erotica; most of the others write porn.

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note to English L,

//Erotica just happens to get a person sexually excited in the course of it,//


you may be able to make that float is merrie olde englande, but it won't float here.

 

[English Lady]

===
note to English L,

//Erotica just happens to get a person sexually excited in the course of it,//


you may be able to make that float is merrie olde englande, but it won't float here.

Why, is your bath not big enough?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Ok... I admit it - I WRITE PORN... I just forget the sex parts mostly.

All kidding aside... I've discovered that you don't really need sex to have a great erotic story. Maybe that's the difference.

 

[ungenderless]

I've discovered that you don't really need sex to have a great erotic story. Maybe that's the difference.

That's an interesting point; one that's often overlooked, I think.

And I agree that there's a difference between porn and erotica...I just don't share the common notion that there's nothing redeeming about porn.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I, personally, write porn. S'what I do. I'm a porn author, a pornographer. I don't deny that there are erotica writers and whatnot, but that's just not what I do.

I want someone reading my story and going "Mmmhmm, that's hot" and maybe rubbing one out or just thinkin' about it.

If we were to be analagous?

I'm not Emily DIckenson or the artsy, independant, masterpiece creator... I'd be closer to the author of dime-store paperbacks, who only wants to be read and entertain and doesn't demand a lot of the reader at all.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

I dunno if my recent writing even rises about the slightly smutty level...

 

[MagicaPractica]

I just don't share the common notion that there's nothing redeeming about porn.

I agree with that statement 100% and that is definitely not the reason I prefer the term erotica. It's just a personal thing. *shrug*