The polite name for
literary pornography. While stories that depict
graphic fucking might be disguised within your dear mother's
trash romance books, don't be fooled- some of these gems are a
masturbatory dream come true.
Authors behind these works are extrodinarily varied. A story of a man and a woman going at it
rabid wombat-style might have been created by a reknowned writer of
romance novels, by a teenager who legally shouldn't be able to read the things he writes in the first place, or the forty-year-old sexual deviant who gets off on obscure sexual
fetishes. The main difference between these items and more
generic pornography is the style in which the characters, intercourse, and the story are portrayed.
Elaborate background stories and
strong characterization are usually the quickest way to characterize the style of the author.
Romance novels usually portray the woman
struggling against overwhelming odds, due to some recent tragedy. The man emerges from her tragedy, sometimes initially appearing to be an
enemy of the woman (an evil banker, a Union solder, etc), but through a series of events proves that
he is the one person that can mend her heart. Universally, the two consummate their new-found lives with a wondrous episode of lovemaking (NEVER
a good fuck) that touches her heart and sets them off. Most other styles of
writing porn have far less depth to their characters- generally, other than their bra size and
virginal status,
a girl is not defined beyond whose car she took to get to the orgy, nor are the events leading to the corporate
wage slave and the boss's secretary screwing one another
in full view of security cameras. elaborated upon. This type fits most any truly pornographic scenarios in literature.
The light that the sexual act is viewed in is also dependant on the style of the
author. The romance novelist will paint it as the ultimate act of love between the two
protagonists (consummated either just prior to the
heroine's abduction by the
villain, after the
hero rescues the
heroine from the dastardly clutches of the
villain, or as a closing part of the book, or will
mix and match the above scenarios. The
horny teenager will quite often be a bit more brutal in his description, use less flowery language, and in general resort to a number of the
Erotic Fiction Cliches to get his point across.
Lesbianism,
threesomes, and the ubiquitous
gang-bang are about as far as these go, although the range of sexual description is far greater than
trash romance. Those written by the guys playing
far right field, though, have no pre-set limits on what kind of stories they tell. Tales of
tentacle-things out for your daughter,
beastiality,
necrophilia,
scatophilia. Those kinds are best described when you look at ways to
How to spot bad internet porn stories.
The depth of the plot is another way to interpret the author's intent (although potentially unreliable, as some people simply write good sex AND good plots). Were the aforementioned styles taken and made into movies, erotica written by a best-selling
trash romance author would likely be displayed proudly on
HBO as a
stirring tale of forbidden love.
Traditional pornographic stories can (and often do) make it onto early or
late-night Skinemax, where plots are nothing more than ways to segue sex scenes to one another; the truly obscure works, though, might make it in a
direct-to-video release
you might find somewhere deep in the heart of Texas if your home state doesn't permit the sale of anything involving
graphic sex and/or nudity, like
Oklahoma does.
Erotica is a business, and it has a number of
viable customers, each of which must be
catered to by taste. A
thirty-something mother of three is not going to buy a
masturbation tool intended for use by
web-savvy college student who could probably find something just as good on the
Net, nor will a sixteen-year-old teenager even come close to the
Romance section of the bookstore (although
if he's sneaky enough, he can filch his mother's/aunt's books when she's done with them-
it can be done).