Why Bother with Porn?

[Stella_Omega]

1, 2, 3, sex. 1, 2, 3, sex. 1, 2, 3, sex. That's how my brain works.

Conga line!

 

[CharleyH]

I love your answer up there, Charley!

EDIT: Like Farrah Fawcett, I have my moments. Stell.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

My porn-writing madness started with my mid-life crisis, and it's now mutated into trying to write deeper and more meaningful stories. Which goes to show that God has a great sense of irony, because I'm making a bigger schmuck of myself now than when I wrote porn.

 

[CharleyH]

My porn-writing madness started with my mid-life crisis, and it's now mutated into trying to write deeper and more meaningful stories. Which goes to show that God has a great sense of irony, because I'm making a bigger schmuck of myself now than when I wrote porn.

LOL you crazy old fart!

 

[Virgin_Whore_Baby]

You're good enough to have stuff posted on Lit, which means you have a modicum of talent and ability as a writer. You can write a sentence and a paragraph, do dialogue, know a plot when you trip over one, recognize a story when you see one.

You could be writing mysteries or science fiction or humor, horror or romance or adventure, but instead you're writing porn. How come? Why do you put so much energy and effort into something that will probably never make you any money and that you'll probably be too embarrassed to ever even admit to writing under your real name?

I have my own reasons. I'm curious about yours.

I have no idea

 

[elfin_odalisque]

It's so much easier to get your writing published (and read) if you write smut. Just look at the low clicks for non-erotic and reviews; people don't read them.

'Porn', in terms of reference to sex, is now in all books that populate the bestsellers lists, is de rigeur for any would be prizewinner and, IMHO, is a pretty good starting school for anyone who wants to raise their heads above the primeval swamp of creative writing.

It's not easy!

 

[CharleyH]

The original question deserves a bump.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

LOL you crazy old fart!

Hey, less of the "old". But more of the "crazy" is fine. I blow hot and cold on the "fart".

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hey, less of the "old". But more of the "crazy" is fine. I blow hot and cold on the "fart".

We can always light 'em...

 

[CharleyH]

We can always light 'em...

ROFLOL to both of you!

 

[human_male]

I thought it might get women to notice me.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I thought it might get women to notice me.

Dude, only if you stand on the corner and hand out paper copies of your work... and I wouldn't advise that....

Really, I find that my most prolific writing times coincide with my least sociable times. what a coincidence, huh?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I bother with porn because I find the relationship dynamic fascinating and not always well written. It challenges me to get into the nitty gritty of what drives characters' passions and actions. Somehow, in most other genres, the challenge is diminished. The sex aspect to each person is so raw and inexplicable to the person actually experiencing it that for me to try and capture it in words is a real motivation.

~lucky

 

[CeriseNoire]

I'll add to what I said earlier that I feel the way a character approaches sex as well as their thoughts during, before, and after go a long way in telling who they are.

That and I think that writing sex is challenging writing-wise, and I need to challenge myself.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I thought it might get women to notice me.

Hey, Human, ya little hottie

And back to the discussion...

I've thought about Doc's question. It's really about the difference between Porn and Erotica. This is my take...

Porn only approached the purient interest of the reader, while Erotica explores the sexuality of the characters. Wow. That was easy

 

[Guest]

Hey, Human, ya little hottie

And back to the discussion...

I've thought about Doc's question. It's really about the difference between Porn and Erotica. This is my take...

Porn only approached the purient interest of the reader, while Erotica explores the sexuality of the characters. Wow. That was easy

I dunno, Jenny.

I think Erotica is just brand-name Porn. Smut with a pedigree.

There is well-written and poorly-written smut, of course. For poorly written, think reader letters to a stroke magazine. And the well-written tales can be anything from some of the excellent stories on Lit to the edgier romantic fiction being published today.

But the bottom line is that we write stories about people fucking. The rest is just semantics.

 

[human_male]

Hey, Human, ya little hottie

And back to the discussion...

I've thought about Doc's question. It's really about the difference between Porn and Erotica. This is my take...

Porn only approached the purient interest of the reader, while Erotica explores the sexuality of the characters. Wow. That was easy

Heya. It's always nice to see you. *waves*

 

[dr_mabeuse]

And back to the discussion...

I've thought about Doc's question. It's really about the difference between Porn and Erotica. This is my take...

Porn only approached the purient interest of the reader, while Erotica explores the sexuality of the characters. Wow. That was easy

Yeah. That's exactly what I mean.

Of course, those are just my own working definitions. According to the dictionary, porn and erotica are the same. But it's a distinction I find it useful to make. For one thing, just about anyone can write porn, but not everyone can write erotica.

Another way to look at it is that porn is physical; erotica is mental.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I bother with porn because I find the relationship dynamic fascinating and not always well written. It challenges me to get into the nitty gritty of what drives characters' passions and actions. Somehow, in most other genres, the challenge is diminished. The sex aspect to each person is so raw and inexplicable to the person actually experiencing it that for me to try and capture it in words is a real motivation.

~lucky

I'll add to what I said earlier that I feel the way a character approaches sex as well as their thoughts during, before, and after go a long way in telling who they are.

I think that's great. I feel the same way too. I think a person's sexuality is like the foundation of their whole soul, and that's why we feel so terribly vulnerable during sex and why sex always feels so dangerous. My characters are always being forced to discover themselves through sex and they're always shocked.

I guess that's why I don't like loving-sex stories. No surprise, no revelation.

 

[wordofvirtue]

I write it because it's fun. I'm not a professional writer by any means; writing for Lit is my juicy hobby. I've written smut in the past, for assorted boyfriends who told me it was fantastic (as if they would say otherwise! LOL). I happened to be looking for erotic stories online on day and discovered Lit. Got my panties nice and damp and found an outlet to start writing again -- woo-hoo!!!!

 

[Stella_Omega]

I think that's great. I feel the same way too. I think a person's sexuality is like the foundation of their whole soul, and that's why we feel so terribly vulnerable during sex and why sex always feels so dangerous. My characters are always being forced to discover themselves through sex and they're always shocked.

I guess that's why I don't like loving-sex stories. No surprise, no revelation.

Ditto there, Doc.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Ditto there, Doc.

Yes, sex is very important, but I prefer the conversation

 

[human_male]

Dude, only if you stand on the corner and hand out paper copies of your work... and I wouldn't advise that....

Yes I tried that, and it didn't work. So then I thought I'd try taking my privates out and flapping them at passers by but oddly that didn't work either.