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[insanepurin]

Another day, another teeth-gnashing brush-in with my mother. Today I thought it would be better if she got out of my life. When I realized that, I cried.

I've got to stop reading 50 Shades for a while. Not only do I fear it's affecting my writing what little I've done anyway (I almost typed, "and my subconcious agreed" and I cringed) it truly

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[silverflight8]

What I don't understand is how the people who write and publish in media haven't figured out that a lot of romance books have sex in them

[koyaaniisqatsi]

I refuse to read the train-wreck that is 50 Shades of Grey. :|

Mommy porn...? Wtf. o_o;

[dioschorium]

You might be horrified interested to know that Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy was recently reprinted with covers evocative of the Fifty Shades books. As if the message wasn't clear, the covers turn the subtext into text by declaring "IF YOU LIKE FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, YOU'LL LIKE THIS." Do you think the older pornographic novels you mentioned will receive a similar treatment?

Confession time: late last year, I wanted to write smutty Star Wars fan fiction starring C-3PO and a humanoid male of nebulous origin, but then I told myself, "Virge, you will not do that. You will write original fiction—not a fic magically transformed by the find-and-replace feature, but genuine original fiction—about a sex slave robot

[insanepurin]

It doesn't surprise me that they'd do that with the Beauty trilogy. "Want more boring sex scenes? Care to yawn at the next spanking? WELCOME TO ANNE RICE'S BEAUTY TRILOGY

[dioschorium]

Your psychological horror story sounds interesting, and I'd like to read your BDSM novel. The dynamics of sex—the "psychology of desire," as Devo put it—fascinate me more readily than the descriptions of sex itself.