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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.

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[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.