Read My Lips on 4-Letter Words
I’m very chuffed to have been invited by Harley Moore to write a monthly column for 4-Letter Words, e-Book Eros‘ lively blogzine on erotic lit and its readers. My column is called ‘Read My Lips‘ and my post this month is on the myth that women aren’t visual, sexually. This month also features a fabulous […]
The Hard Goodbye: When the Artists We Admire Disappoint Us.
Today I’m sad. I’m sad because I read this: Frank Miller’s invective-filled hate piece about the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s a pretty shocking piece of badly reasoned, idiosyncratic garbage. Not because he disagrees with the OWS folks, but because he unloaded a shitload of baseless hyperbole on a movement he clearly doesn’t even understand. […]
The Uses of Closure. Some thoughts on Happily Ever After.
I have been disdainful of romance and erotic romance, and yet it is undeniable that it brings a huge number of women, and no small number of men, joy. These people are not idiots. They are not intellectual midgets who cannot cope with writing that reflects the harsher realities of the human condition. The sheer […]
Eating Pussy
If I had a dollar for every email I’ve received from men and women concerned that their girlfriends don’t really like being subjected to oral sex, I would be substantially better off. Not exactly rich, but well… it would pay for a shopping spree on Amazon. And you’d think that in these days of rampant […]
What Erotic Fiction is Not
If you’ve come to my site for a quick wank, you’ve come to the wrong place. Let me assure you that for sheer sexual stimulus, nothing works like porn. So get over whatever hesitation you’ve got about it and get your ass over to xhamster. You’re bound to find a clip that will do the […]
Today is Fantasy Pride Day
[poll id=’1′]I’m proclaiming today ‘fantasy pride day‘. And I’m doing a very informal poll to find out how many of my readers have have sexual fantasies that include non-consensual elements. Furthermore, I’m going to challenge you, if you do, to write one out. I figure that one of the best ways to get rid of […]
The Problem of Careless Language & the Deconstruction of Rape Fantasies
I’ve been doing a lot of interviews with fellow writers on the subject of restrictions in erotic fiction. With a few exceptions, most erotic fiction writers write about the things that turn them on. This makes sense. It’s very hard to ensure that you are going to write about something you don’t have fantasies about […]
Shot From Both Sides: Modeling Normal Through Publication
I’m doing a lot more thinking about my thesis topic. Trying to choose my angle of approach. For those of you who have access to the online journal libraries through a university, search ‘modern erotic literature’, ‘erotic fiction’ or ‘erotica’ and see just how dead the field is. What you get is an avalanche of […]
How To Write Erotica: Some Advice & Resources for Beginners
On the comments area of my last post, on Circlet Press’ slush pile tweeting, a few people defended the act as being educational for wannabe erotica writers, as a way to humiliating them into observing publishers’ guidelines and paying more attention to their grammar. It will certainly serve as a way to take down their […]
Censorship, Banned Books and Writing Taboo
Harley Moore, from eBook Eros invited me to blog on the subject of censorship, banned books and taboo topics in literature. I think that some people are going to have a hard time with my position on this subject: I do not support the legal censorship of any book, on any subject, period. I don’t […]