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[StillStunned]

I beg your pardon! As a resident Finn in these parts I’ll have to disown you.

I like the all-black liquorice allsorts better that the stripey ones. And I've had liquorice-and-chocolate from Iceland that I liked.

One controversial observation of erotica that appears on this website (not my opinion): erotica is fundamentally middle class - or, put more aggressively, you cannot be desperately poor and be sexy.

But you can be desperately poor and spy on sexy people doing sexy things.

 

[Bramblethorn]

One controversial observation of erotica that appears on this website (not my opinion): erotica is fundamentally middle class - or, put more aggressively, you cannot be desperately poor and be sexy.

With a "desperately poor lady with a good heart meets a rich saviour" exception.

 

[iwatchus]

I like the all-black liquorice allsorts better that the stripey ones. And I've had liquorice-and-chocolate from Iceland that I liked.

I love those chocolate-licorice candies from iceland. As far as I can tell, they do not import them into the states

 

[Erozetta]

With a "desperately poor lady with a good heart meets a rich saviour" exception.

DreamCloud has a story called The Promise about a guy who kinda slips away from his life and ends up being found and cared for by a homeless man who shows him to a community kitchen. He starts helping there while still appearing/living as a homeless man following a big life shift at the start of the story. It's an interesting take on this as he ends up with the woman overseeing the kitchen and the attraction/relationship starts while he appears homeless.

It's really well done.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

With a "desperately poor lady with a good heart meets a rich saviour" exception.

Exactly. It’s the wealth that enables the sexiness. No rich boy, no sex!

I’m trying to think of examples of people in poverty enjoying their sexuality (and not in a sad and desperate and animalistically lustful way)…

…one that I’ve always found incredibly hot is in In The Skin Of A Lion, a novel by Ondaatje about poor immigrants in the early days of Toronto: one windy night, a young nun accidentally falls off a bridge that’s under construction and is caught mid-air by a Macedonian labourer who’s working below the bridge; he dislocates his shoulder saving her; they go to a bar - it’s late, late at night - where she buys him a drink to dull the pain and removes her habit to form a sling for his arm; he can barely speak English, she’s always considered herself unlucky. These two people, poor for very different reasons, thrown together (literally) by fate, sharing only this one drink and her brush with death and a common desire to feel more alive…

Edit: Pasolini movies have plenty of joyful, non-commodified sex with poor people.

 

[iwatchus]

One controversial observation of erotica that appears on this website (not my opinion): erotica is fundamentally middle class - or, put more aggressively, you cannot be desperately poor and be sexy.

I'm certainly by and large guilty of this. Most of my characters are well to do and very talented in some way. I can think of only a handful of characters that were working class, only one of which was a main character.

But I want to give a shout out to @MelissaBaby for not following this. I will note Gold Dollar Girls as a good counter example from her, although there are others as well.