tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post144353494799280699..comments2023-05-30T08:29:42.770-04:00Comments on The Erotica Readers & Writers Association Blog: In Praise of the One-Handed ReadCroco Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417265522875605547noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-20423382778763020702013-06-03T13:23:46.725-04:002013-06-03T13:23:46.725-04:00Garce, you are so funny! I wondered who was havin...Garce, you are so funny! I wondered who was having such trouble typing! If your fingers are too big...hmm...<br />Ahem...back on topic. <br /><br />K.D., excellent post! No one flinches at writers who offer graphic descriptions of explicit violence that makes me too uncomfortable to continue reading. Yet those books are on the best-seller lists, while romances sell a lot, but never get any respect. Books about power struggles that men like, with women as trophies, and sex with them being mere power-displays, are best-sellers, while people raise their eyebrows and turn away when I tell them I write erotic romance. Sigh.<br /><br />One-handed reads deserve respect! And yes, just because you write a rousing good sex scene, doesn't mean that the rest of your story is tripe. Let's hear it for stories that allow us to pleasure ourselves, so that when we have a willing partner, we can share those feelings and enhance everyone's sex lives!Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-38044643495008625542013-06-02T15:46:31.421-04:002013-06-02T15:46:31.421-04:00 . . . Also clearly women are better typists on th... . . . Also clearly women are better typists on these little keyboards than men are . . .<br />Garce<br />Garceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-2765980264311623922013-06-02T15:44:11.275-04:002013-06-02T15:44:11.275-04:00Hi K D!
This is definately close to the heart in ...Hi K D!<br /><br />This is definately close to the heart in all of us. I think the two most ancient genres of story telling must be the Ghost Story and the Sex Story. I can imagine paleolithic shaman around a fire telling the tribe the old stories of the gods and the powerful spirits, and I can imagine men in bear skins returning from the mammoth hunt bragging about how they stuck it in good to the old lady last night and how she begged 'em for more and what total studs they are. We haven't changedt hat much either.<br /><br />I think therepression of sexual writing is still part of that patriarchal thing of men wanting to control women. But I also think that the love of sex narrative is kindo f a woman's thing to some extent. People will get pissed at me for syaing that, but yeah, men are more visully oriented and women are more verbally oriented, consequently FSOG has found more readers with women than men.<br /><br />Garce<br /> Garceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-32399342282242083522013-05-31T10:37:36.249-04:002013-05-31T10:37:36.249-04:00Thanks for the post! I like the comments about rea...Thanks for the post! I like the comments about reading and writing should be physical experiences -- and it's not just erotica. A friend last night told me about this Emily Dickinson quote: <br /><br />"If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way" <br /><br />I think both your post and Dickinson's quote are saying that good writing should affect all parts of a person. Annabeth Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07455191827664110878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-68308413054531073172013-05-31T03:27:50.348-04:002013-05-31T03:27:50.348-04:00Thanks for this insightful and exciting article. ...Thanks for this insightful and exciting article. Strong feelings are a big part of the reading experience for me and i have on occasion shouted out angrily and laughed uproariously when reading (other physical reactions!). If a reader takes a moment in the book as a jumping off point for exploring their sexuality a litte further and a litte more directly, it's a crative act that really takes co-authorship to to next level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-31002673007800753232013-05-31T02:40:44.812-04:002013-05-31T02:40:44.812-04:00Fabulous post, K.D.! "Interactive" indee...Fabulous post, K.D.! "Interactive" indeed!<br /><br />Thank you for expressing this so eloquently.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.com