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Aug 26, 2011 06:35

My big fat double standard is our latest Adventurotica.com article! Sargon takes on the unfortunate truth that, within the subset of the erotica genre that has embraced fat women as characters, there has not been a corresponding increase in the visibility of fat men. I'd excerpt it, but it's short, and it's all very much to the point. Just go ( Read more... )

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lostin_thestars August 26 2011, 17:00:16 UTC
As the lover of a "fat" guy, thank you for writing this article. I love my boyfriend to bits, and find him incredibly sexy, not for his fatness, but because of who he is: my tall, long haired, viking who gleefully rejoices in having a not so tiny girl to throw around in the bedroom, and is a huge advocate of the view point, that I'm fat, but sexy.

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sargon999 August 26 2011, 23:46:48 UTC
You are fat AND sexy dear. Fat and sexy.

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lostin_thestars August 26 2011, 23:47:47 UTC
Ah, important distinction that. I blame lack of am coffee.

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cissa August 28 2011, 03:30:06 UTC
Personally, I am really, really bored with "washboard abs". I do not think a guy can get such without that being a major preoccupation of his- and tht in itself is not sexy. Washboard abs do not happen by accident, or in the course of a normal life. And thus they annoy me when "heroes" all have them without spending 4 hours a day working on them (which would be un-heroic).

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naamah_darling August 28 2011, 04:05:19 UTC
Yeah, we see it so often in movies and on TV and so forth that I think very few people have a good idea of how difficult that is for most people to achieve.

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cissa August 29 2011, 23:13:35 UTC
I just read an anthology of novellas in which ALL the heroes has "washboard Abs"... and none of them were weightlifting fanatics. STUPID. and annoying.

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naamah_darling August 30 2011, 06:02:26 UTC
Agh. AND it's a crappy phrase, too. I mean, totally unoriginal and boring. Sloppy writing.

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