Doing research on sex work so far is a little tricky. There is a mountain of prejudice against sex work, so much baggage people have, that objectivity is a little difficult ( Read more... )

I can't believe that it's the second decade of the 21st century, and people are still getting wigged out concerning SEX in fiction.  Especially if it's not "genre" fiction, but "literary" fiction.  Whatever the hell that is.

Of course, some public wigging out draws attention to one's self, and that's publicity.  Publicity, cookies, identity.  I get ( Read more... )

So I'm researching erotica, and I stumbled across a sort of thumbnail sketch on erotica &. pornography with an emphasis on the history of male homosexual porn through history.

What made me chuckle was this sentence: "Within the nether world, homosexual experiences had a surprising openness."

Feeling ever so much better now and plotting like a Merovingian witch.

Yay co-conspirators!

I am so very tired of vampires being TEH SEX.

And now apparently zombies have entered the "Supernaturals we wanna date" list.

What, do Americans not spend enough time around dead bodies?  Dead bodies are not sexy, people.  You want an encounter with the undead?  Go clean out your fridge.  Set some mousetraps.  Take what you find and play with it for ( Read more... )

Prostitution--how to write about it ( Read more... )

O my LJ brothers and sisters--

Do y'all know of any specfic out there that deals specifically (heh--see what I did there?) with sex workers?

Yes, for real, I'm asking this in the hopes of serious answers.

So I asked whether or not you liked sex in in your fiction.

Of course we're talking well done sex.

But that's subjective, isn't it?

Some folks like their sex taseful, while others like it--tasty. Some people prefer euphemisms, while other people prefer the latinate terms. While penis, cock, and manhood all refer to the same anatomical piece, those ( Read more... )