Why do you write erotica?

[Hypoxia]

Besides what I've said as 1) being able to write sometimes and 2) puzzling-out excuses for improbabilities, I see it as alt***** exploration. What could have resulted had someone died or lived, left or stayed, chosen different paths?

Sometimes I merely spin tales. In The Botanists I invented an actual historical couple's undocumented romance. I'm slowly cooking quasi-historical biographies modeled roughly on real folks -- but with twists. These stories await telling. They won't go away.

Why erotica? Because people are sexual beasts -- and LIT is the place to expose them.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

I've been pondering this question since the thread posted, and I don't have an answer that's particularly original. I've had fantasies that I told myself for years. I read erotica on and off, mostly in spurts, mostly after I got my e-reader. A lot of erotica that you can get is mediocre, I think. Like a couple of other people wrote, I read a few compilations of "women's erotica" and... well, the stories didn't really do anything for me. I like my written porn dirtier and rougher around the edges than seems acceptable. So, I took a couple of the stories that I'd told myself and wrote them down. They were better received that I expected, and that sparked something. So, I've kept going, building a universe with a couple of characters (none of those stories published yet), trying to write an expanded version of another set of fantasies I had. And basically having fun exploring this side of my psyche.

It's been interesting to me, that once I wrote down the first few fantasies, more kept bubbling up. But, my sense it that happens to most people.

 

[ElectricBlue]

They were better received that I expected, and that sparked something. So, I've kept going, building a universe with a couple of characters (none of those stories published yet), trying to write an expanded version of another set of fantasies I had. And basically having fun exploring this side of my psyche.

This.

Plus, for me, writing a story which received a lot of positive comment from people with disabilities, for "giving them a voice." The notion of erotica with a social conscience struck a chord with me as a person, and as a writer.

But it's mostly exploring my psyche. I had an idea what was going on in there, but not how rich and varied it's all turned out to be. It's that fascination that keeps me going - I just want to meet them all, these women who dwell within .

 

[loquere]

The voices tell me too.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The voices tell me to.

That was Son of Sam's excuse. Be careful. Don't touch knives .

 

[MichaelGH]

That was Son of Sam's excuse. Be careful. Don't touch knives .

Well then I’m glad that the reason I write erotica is because my neighbor’s dog tells me to and not because of any silly voices.

 

[TryAnything]

I am wondering if others find that writing makes them need to pause and masturbate?

Most definitely, but then again, that's the main reason I write, to get myself excited/off.

 

[loquere]

That was Son of Sam's excuse. Be careful. Don't touch knives .

Funny coincidence, my real name is Sam.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Funny coincidence, my real name is Sam.

It's no coincidence. We'll send two men in white coats, and a jacket that ties around the back. You'll be fine. The asylum has coffee and tea, friendly doctors and nurses, and plenty to read. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[SynSlave]

I simply like to write. It doesn't have to be erotica but it certainly can be.

 

[PoisonPen33]

A friend dared me to, and it turned out that I have a knack for it and might be able to scratch something together that could be published. But even if it isn't, it's a nice hobby to practice.

 

[MarcoPaelo]

I write erotica....

BECAUSE...I love reading and have always dreamed about writing my own..

LOVED reading erotica when younger, especially by women (Nancy Friday, Erica Jong etc etc, so you can now place me in an age group !!), and of course "apparently by a woman" in Penthouse Letters....was that my inner voyeur emerging???.....

BUT....lots of life came in between, including marriage, blocking out the writing instinct, but catalyzing real life experiences...

AND....several of those life experiences were erotic and transgressed the boundaries of conventional marital morality....

AND....I felt thrilled about the idea of sharing them (my inner exhibitionist emerging ???).....

SO....I started posting on Lit....the experience was cathartic in some way, totally unexpected...

AND....I found out a lot about my own psyche and personality in the process, especially through email exchanges with my readers..

LEADING TO....my now writing my first "real world novel", non erotic in the main but with some good sex scenes (!!) I think....

THEREFORE...my conclusion that I was all along trying to "find my own voice", and the realization that maybe erotica just happened to be the path....

 

[jehoram]

I am wondering if others find that writing makes them need to pause and masturbate?

Absolutely. We call that "quality control."

 

[ChloeTzang]

Most definitely, but then again, that's the main reason I write, to get myself excited/off.

I like getting everyone else excited. The reader responses I love are the ones that say they stayed up until 5am because they couldn’t stop reading until they were finished. When my husband says that it’s even better.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Apart from trying to write something, anything, that seems like a story; and giving myself the cheapest possible thrills by imagining sex scenes that cost me no money; I write erotica in the hope of producing something sex-positive. My task is to bring together believable characters in a logically consistent setting, wherein they find ways to enjoy themselves without deceit, guilt, anger, shame, or ruined lives.

In so doing, I close myself off from plots and themes that are definitely worth exploration. In fact, I write a fair amount about negative emotions and situations--but not in erotica. There seems to be no shortage of sex-negativity, and writers who work in that vein can produce fine and meaningful work. This just isn’t what I choose to do.

All that said, there can be tension and issues in my stories, if the sex participants are doing something that violates social norms. That’s wider-world stuff, however. I don’t intend to write about a character who does something sexual while knowing that this would hurt somebody.

I leave it to readers to decide if the end results of my devotion to sweetness and light are worth reading.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5116173&page=submissions

 

[PG564E]

It turns me on to write erotic fantasy's, and real life homosexual stories. I have always loved sex. I still love women and lust after them, but I'm in my 60's and decided to try giving other men blow jobs, which the thought of doing turned me on tremendously.

It was a deep craving that I could not push back or ignore. It was very real, and I KNEW I would do it, suck a cock and swallow cum, because I desperately WANTED to do this.

So for 6 years I have enjoyed gay sex immensely. I write to make women and men cum sharing my filthy sex loving mind in each message I write.

I'm not interested in having my work published. This is pure fun, and that is what I want to have.

 

[loquere]

I was kidnapped & held hostage in a basement somewhere on the edge of the universe, they force me to write this shit, please send Star Fleet to rescue me!

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

It's a sexual release. I love incest, but I don't want to actually commit incest. Exploring it as a fantasy is a real turn on.

Also, it's a creative release. I've always fancied myself as a bit of a writer, but I've never been able to complete (or start, really) the great novel burning away inside me. Yet, in the space of the last six months, I've written the equivalent of a novel (at least based on word-count) here on Literotica.

And, I've wanked myself into a coma while I've done it...

 

[OneAuthor]

Why do I write erotica?

It turns me on to know that something I have written turns someone else on when they read it.

 

[Erlikkhan]

It's an addiction. I love being able to turn my wildest fantasies into a story. I reread my own stories a lot.

 

[Reshbod]

I've always wanted to write and felt erotica would be good practice in crafting stories.
Also, I tend to have difficulty finding erotic stories that "do it" for me. Many start out good, but the authors often includes elements that take me out of it, so I began writing the type of stories I wanted to read.

And the fact that others enjoy my stuff is motivation to keep going.