Safe Sex (in MY porn!?)

[solar_cat]

Because Twitter was not the ideal environment for this sort of discussion topic...

Safe Sex & Porn

Readers, what is YOUR take on the topic of safe-sex practices in porn? (Fic porn, filmed porn, whatever.) Does it turn you on/off? What about a distinct LACK of safe-sex practices in your porn? Do you sit there thinking, No condom?? >:( or UNF. I

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[hollyxu]

My tolerance for sexytiemz in fic comes and goes (ha! I am so lame) rather like seasonal depression cycles in and out, but the safety thing depends on two factors 1) relationship and 2) relevance.

For relationships, if they're committed, married, etc, and both are clean, I don't really see a reason? But if, oh, nightclub-boy!Merlin were to meet socialite!Arthur and get it on in the backroom or something, it'd be nice if they used protection. NEVER HAVE (UNSAFE) SEX WITH ABSOLUTE STRANGERS, BB.

Though the likelihood of the people in the above situation having condoms is high, because of what situation they're in, if it was canon!Merlin and Arthur, well, they didn't have condoms back then, did they? And if the author spends five minutes lovingly describing the safe ways they're having sex, I'm going to get bored, and scroll down to where the plot is (or hit backspace). It really depends on the writing and the mood I'm in, which doesn't help you much, does it?

There seems to be a get-out-of-jail card for kinkmeme prompts, but the lack of safety's not a dealbreaker for me, even if I will have two seconds of 'AAAAAAAAHHH THE VDs'. And most of the time, I scroll past the sex entirely.