lovecraft68
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Its been discussed often here how the word-and category-Taboo has changed over the years, at least in terms of porn and erotica. Taboo's basic meaning is something society would normally frown upon, but now all but exclusively is associated with incest or step incest.
Last night I was discussing my new WIP-a milf anthology-with a friend, and he brought up a good point, why are Milfs in erotica and porn always older women? The term stands for mother I'd like to fuck, there are a lot of young moms out there.
His point made me think of the couple that recently bought the house across the street from us. The wife is a flat out stunning redhead who is 26(I know this because my chatty wife went over there to bring them food the day they moved in and she somehow always ends up with everyone's life story) and a mother of 3 year old twins.
But if I were to post a picture of her somewhere and say look at this hot Milf I would get comments that she's too young.
The correct term for a very attractive and sexually aggressive woman-especially one that likes younger men is cougar. A cougar is always an older woman in at least her upper thirties and upwards.
But yet look up Milf in erotic stories and porn searches and they are always in that late 30's and up range...porn stars like India Summers, Jodie West, Zoe Holloway Kendra Lust etc, they're not younger women.
In another thread discussing the popularity of the mature category it was mentioned that the category itself has become a bit of a misnomer, its not about older mature pairings, but age gap stories and the word milf is in constant referral to 40ish women.
If you want to get eyes on your story here, or get the right target audience for sale, your Milfs have to be older or it does not go over as well so authors perpetuate the misuse because you either keep going with it or the story won't be as successful.
One last point is I have read-and written-stories where the "milf" does not even have kids, but the term is used as a synonym for cougar, and no one calls that out because...back to my point about Taboo, the word's meaning has totally shifted, and even though mom is in the acronym its no longer the focal point, the age is.
Additionally, here's a quick hit on the selling market. Milf is the better term in a title because if you use cougar(even more so if Cougar cub is in title or description) on amazon,...well, some young boy or girl searches cougar expecting animals and gets cougar cub erotica because amazon refuses to have a separate adult section, but when mom or dad get pissed and report the book, its always the authors fault...so selling advice, always use Milf, at least on amazon with its heavy Karen population.
And...this is what I think to talk about at 6:30 in the morning
Last night I was discussing my new WIP-a milf anthology-with a friend, and he brought up a good point, why are Milfs in erotica and porn always older women? The term stands for mother I'd like to fuck, there are a lot of young moms out there.
His point made me think of the couple that recently bought the house across the street from us. The wife is a flat out stunning redhead who is 26(I know this because my chatty wife went over there to bring them food the day they moved in and she somehow always ends up with everyone's life story) and a mother of 3 year old twins.
But if I were to post a picture of her somewhere and say look at this hot Milf I would get comments that she's too young.
The correct term for a very attractive and sexually aggressive woman-especially one that likes younger men is cougar. A cougar is always an older woman in at least her upper thirties and upwards.
But yet look up Milf in erotic stories and porn searches and they are always in that late 30's and up range...porn stars like India Summers, Jodie West, Zoe Holloway Kendra Lust etc, they're not younger women.
In another thread discussing the popularity of the mature category it was mentioned that the category itself has become a bit of a misnomer, its not about older mature pairings, but age gap stories and the word milf is in constant referral to 40ish women.
If you want to get eyes on your story here, or get the right target audience for sale, your Milfs have to be older or it does not go over as well so authors perpetuate the misuse because you either keep going with it or the story won't be as successful.
One last point is I have read-and written-stories where the "milf" does not even have kids, but the term is used as a synonym for cougar, and no one calls that out because...back to my point about Taboo, the word's meaning has totally shifted, and even though mom is in the acronym its no longer the focal point, the age is.
Additionally, here's a quick hit on the selling market. Milf is the better term in a title because if you use cougar(even more so if Cougar cub is in title or description) on amazon,...well, some young boy or girl searches cougar expecting animals and gets cougar cub erotica because amazon refuses to have a separate adult section, but when mom or dad get pissed and report the book, its always the authors fault...so selling advice, always use Milf, at least on amazon with its heavy Karen population.
And...this is what I think to talk about at 6:30 in the morning
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It's almost inevitable that I'll have some head canon about why they separated, even if it's nowhere in the story.
