The werewolf non-human genre

[Rob_Royale]

So the whole werewolf fantasy is my wife's thing. She's read a ton of Laurell K. Hamilton's work on the subject and loves it. When I ask her about the attraction she just shrugs and changes the subject. I've recently come up with an idea that is right up this alley and I want to make sure I'm hitting the mark on the things that make this arousing to women.

So I'm asking those that are into this subject, what about those stories set you off, AND perhaps please recommend some reading that did it for you in particular. Thanks.

 

[AlinaX]

I suspect that it's the pure fantasy of a man who knows exactly what he wants and will fight and fuck with savage pleasure, and he will love you and only you with unwavering and absolute loyalty, so much so that you don't care that he is basically a controlling asshole and you are setting feminism back five centuries just by reading the stupid book.

 

[forgotmyantidepressants]

I suspect that it's the pure fantasy of a man who knows exactly what he wants and will fight and fuck with savage pleasure, and he will love you and only you with unwavering and absolute loyalty, so much so that you don't care that he is basically a controlling asshole and you are setting feminism back five centuries just by reading the stupid book.

The struggle is real lol

 

[onehitwanda]

So I'm asking those that are into this subject, what about those stories set you off, AND perhaps please recommend some reading that did it for you in particular. Thanks.

That's a knotty discussion.

 

[StillStunned]

That's a knotty discussion.

But a transformative one.

 

[onehitwanda]

But a transformative one.

Comes once in a blue moon.

 

[onehitwanda]

@Jackie.Hikaru I can FEEL you judging me

 

[StillStunned]

Comes once in a blue moon.

I've heard that it's a bad idea to stick anything in your blue moon.

 

[onehitwanda]

I've heard that it's a bad idea to stick anything in your blue moon.

Werewolves have flared bases.

oh my god wanda stop

 

[StillStunned]

Werewolves have flared bases.

oh my god wanda stop

That probably explains all the howling as well.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I want to make sure I'm hitting the mark on the things that make this arousing to women.

Honestly, there's no silver bullet to success.

 

[onehitwanda]

That probably explains all the howling as well.

I regret nothing.

awoo

 

[Bamagan]

This may not be applicable to your wife or your intended story, but many of the fans in Nonhuman are transformation fans. There are werewolf camps and vampire camps and so forth, but there are some themes that are shared by most, to varying degrees. Two major ones I've noticed:
Primalism or savagery. This is not necessarily about violence, although it can be for some. It's typically more about the rejection of 'civilization' and 'intellectualism' in order to experience deep emotions without trying to filter them or contextualize them from some kind of moral perspective. Overpowering or overwhelming lust is a common trope across a lot of erotica, and transformation fans often consider it a requisite. Furthermore, they usually want it to be truly overpowering (as opposed to mere hyperbole), such that the character's 'humanity' is set aside, preferably literally.
Metamorphosis. The act of changing from human to something else is often considered innately erotic to transformation fans, sometimes regardless of what the 'something else' actually is. This is a theme that seems to have some overlap with the interests of the transgender community, many of whom understand the feeling of not being quite at home in their bodies, or in the roles society prefers. Changing bodies means changing expectations and limitations. The ability to take on a different form, especially one that gives the reader 'power' to which they aspire but probably cannot obtain in reality, tends to be highly appealing. That's classic wish fulfillment, of course, and common across erotica, as the large number of ten-inch dicks and giant tits can testify; transformation fans just take it a little bit further and in a somewhat different direction.

 

[StillStunned]

awoo

Now you remind me of Shakira.

 

[Bamagan]

Now you remind me of Shakira.

You can tell them apart because Wanda's pelvic girdle is deceitful.

 

[StillStunned]

You can tell them apart because Wanda's pelvic girdle is deceitful.

Not being intimately acquainted with Wanda's pelvic bits, I'll take your word for it.

 

[onehitwanda]

You can tell them apart because Wanda's pelvic girdle is deceitful.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

@Jackie.Hikaru I can FEEL you judging me

Your hot takes are ruff

 

[onehitwanda]

Your hot takes are ruff

Throw me a bone, it's the dog watch after all.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Throw me a bone, it's the dog watch after all.

Don't worry I like ruff
Here's your bone

 

[Bamagan]

Don't worry I like ruff
Here's your bone

Oh, good, now we get to watch her bury your bone somewhere.

 

[onehitwanda]

Don't worry I like ruff
Here's your bone

must you toy with me so?

 

[StillStunned]

Oh, good, now we get to watch her bury your bone somewhere.

In her blue moon, apparently.

 

[onehitwanda]

In an attempt to give an actual serious reply for @Rob_Royale

Macabre is sexy. Gothic fantasy is sexy. Anything to do with the Faë is sexy. Stuff with vampires, werewolves, the dark forest, the night side etc is - if done well - very hard to resist. It calls to our dark side. All our best stories as a species are dark; Romeo and Juliet, Snow White, Aladdin... it's the darkness that gives shape to the tale.

Werewolves are powerful symbols of dark, forbidden lust - Dracula took the form of a werewolf when he seduced Lucy.

So the stories of werewolf boning are tapping into the reader's desire to (in some degree) be possessed by something she cannot control.

Imo, anyway.

 

[Bamagan]

In her blue moon, apparently.

Either the Pink Moon or Beaver Moon would have been better.