Comments on: From Margin to Mainstream: Why Erotica Matters

By: Cait Reynolds

Cait Reynolds — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:38:32 +0000

Hi Kelly! I’ll be offering similar classes next year, and we are working on making some of the classes “on-demand” where you can buy them 🙂 Thank you for the kind words!

Also, definitely stop apologizing! If you want to write it, go for it! If they don’t like it? They don’t have to read it. 🙂

By: Kelly Marshall

Kelly Marshall — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:27:02 +0000

Wish I would have read this in Aug in time to take your class. I got to get over apologizing for the sex in my murder mysteries. I get a lot of blowback about it.

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Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:11:35 +0000

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By: Mandibelle16

Mandibelle16 — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:02:26 +0000

I very much enjoyed thus. You don’t read a lot on erotica and romance being important in literature but I agree very much that is. But finding that right balance and the right words are often difficult.

By: Sky

Sky — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:36:26 +0000

In reply to Sky.

I’m sorry. I got my authors mixed up. I was thinking of those Paranormal Romances by Anastacia Kelley and typed that author in by mistake. Those sex scenes were smoking, too.
“Soft Erotica” was actually written by Miss Turee.
My bad, guys.

By: Sky

Sky — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:32:01 +0000

I find it sad that such a horribly written book like 50 Shades is credited as a best selling erotic novel. It was just badly written porn, IMO.
There are much better erotic novels written by more intelligent authors. Authors that know their settings and have a firm grasp on the English language.
You can say ‘ oh, my’ only so many times before it becomes boring.
I realize that there are women who practically swooned over the book.
I know my opinion will step on some toes but it is my opinion.
I just hope I won’t be verbally attacked, bullied and ridiculed because I passionately disliked the book.
I’ve been accused of hating sex, not knowing how to have sex, a hater, and so on.
I just think there are more worthy books that are worded in such an elegant way. And the author has a talent to paint a vivid picture using only her words.
And you don’t have to use crude language for body parts in sex scenes. To me, it’s a huge turn off to see the ‘P’ word to explain the woman’s vagina. ‘Down there’ is something a 6 year old might say.
But, this is just my opinion.
I don’t harass those that like the book. So, please, don’t take my review personally. Some fan girls do. They act like I am purposely attacking them.
I’m not.
I did read a book called, “Soft Erotica” by Anastacia Kelley from Amazon. It’s a series of short erotic stories. They were pretty hit stories and there was no crude language, hence the title.

By: Alison Jean Ash

Alison Jean Ash — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 04:38:06 +0000

Excellent article. No argument from me that erotic books are “real” books. Good sex scenes are not easy to write. Honest well-written erotica is not only entertainment, it’s educational. I’d rather see adolescents getting sex info from good feminist erotica than from the kind of porn that views women as objects to aid male masturbation!

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:04:22 +0000

In reply to JC. Rub your face in a Brillo pad. Hubby's beard is sexy but....yeah.

By: Maria D'Marco

Maria D'Marco — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:43:06 +0000

okay… my first paycheck for writing came from a one-page story I wrote for an back-in-the-old-days ‘giant breasts’ magazine. The subsequent printed page was ripped from that mag full of ‘giant breasts’ and stuck to the wall. Eventually, I had several one-page stories stuck to the wall, all with ‘giant breasts’ on the opposite side of the page.

This story was the first of what I titled ‘One-page Wonders’. The supposed idea being that there was no interrupting page-turning involved. The stories were ‘soft’ but direct, and very descriptive, and always had a story line. Think what is now called flash fiction.

Being in college, the stuff was a quick write, with absurd, extreme concepts — great fun.

I have real respect for anyone who writes good erotica, as it takes all the writing skills necessary for any other type of writing, but also takes a great sense of fun and thinking outside all the boxes (which lie in wait everywhere).

Thanks, Cait, for another great post — and especially for the very accurate description of working as an independent writer (or editor). I just came off one of those 7a-noon, race to 4 appointments, come back home, catch up chores, eat while stuffing laundry in machine, then work 8p-1a… and yeah, coulda slept ‘late’ (til maybe 9a), but phone rings, someone bangs on door to leave tag on door about the new dry cleaners down the road, and neighbors decide to mow.

vive la freelancer!

By: Grigory Ryzhakov

Grigory Ryzhakov — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:00:06 +0000

Cait, I’ve enjoyed this blog so much. Why erotica is considered a lowly genre is beyond me. I have a PhD in molecular biology and I work in the lab, I write litfic, comedy, scifi, non-fiction, but I also write erotic fiction, and I take equal pride in my academic research and my creative writing whether it has sex in it or not. The only thing that matters is doing what you love.