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[rivkat]

I don't know what's happened to me. I think I've doubled the last month's posts today, but I was reading Salon's review of two books of writing about sex, and I feel the need to share that I literally did not understand this sentence -- "Perhaps I'm simply unenlightened, but I've never quite understood the desire to turn to writing for the same reasons one would turn to, say, pornography ..." until I read it a few times. I did not comprehend that for this man (are you surprised?) pornography and writing were non-overlapping categories. Also, Salon should really get a better title for the review. "The Joy of Writing Sex" is a little tired, don't you think? The books themselves sounded interesting, though.

Comments

[marici.livejournal.com]

I thank the androcentric mindset that thinks that every day. Imagine if they tried to regulate us the way they regulate their own photographic porn: badly, but with unpredictably nasty consquences.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I don't think men have been particularly absent from the history of pornographic writing. I just think this particular man has no clue what he's talking about.

I was kind of boggled by his later statement that people wouldn't be interested in reading about sex if they were only having enough of it.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

wow, that's kind of a sad sentence...

and i kind of enjoy seeing you around this much posting smart thoughts!!!

[rose-etta.livejournal.com]

From time to time I had to put the books to the side, close my eyes, and flash on some archival footage of lustful collisions to remind myself that sex remains an activity that people enjoy for a variety of righteously dizzying reasons.

roaringLOL

Let us know if you get them and like them cuz I was hugely disappointed in a UCLA seminar on writing sex in that the novelist speaker was quite simply unerotic and I begin to wonder if "people telling you how to write porn" and "hot" were themselves non-overlapping categories...

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

"people telling you how to write porn" and "hot" were themselves non-overlapping categories...

No, they are not. See my post today (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mecurtin/293750.html) about resonant8's series on "How to Write a Sex Scene".

The interesting question for me is, "Why does Resonant know so much more about writing sex than these so-called pros do?" Or at least she knows a lot more than the author of that Salon article does.

I'm now all curious to see a review of these anthologies by someone whose opinions I trust (e.g. Rivka*g*), and in particular how well they do on the "Resonant Scale of Porn Writing".

[rose-etta.livejournal.com]

Thank you, those are very excellent points she provides.