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elfsOne of the things that big box bookstore in Jacksonville had was a "human sexuality" section that was filled with nothing but erotica, despite being far from the fiction and embedded deep in the self-help.
As if that wasn't strange enough, only one book in the entire shelf was turned to face the eye cover-on, and it was gay erotica! I picked it up and used one of my superpowers (when I open a book, if it has a sex scene, it will always open to that page), which was trivial in this case.
They were pretty decent sex scenes until, after skimming the fourth or fifth one, I noticed a pattern-- they were all porn scripts. When told from the bottom's point of view, there was never any question that it was absolutely wonderful. The author has never bitten a pillow in his life.
But the most damning thing was that every sex scene ended with the top pulling out and coming (excuse me, "cumming") on his partner. In a book, the author doesn't need a "money shot" to explain to the audience that the main character had gotten off on (and in) his partner. But this book had them, with single-character third-person omniscient point of view! Every single one of them. They followed the porn pattern of interest, suck, fuck.
I can't tell if this was regarded as a necessity of the genre in the author's eyes (I wish I'd written it down, the cover did not look like what Amazon offers up when I type in the title), or if this was a lame excuse for not using condoms in the era of safer sex, but if I was going to read porn, I was not going to be subjected to that kind of absurdity.
As if that wasn't strange enough, only one book in the entire shelf was turned to face the eye cover-on, and it was gay erotica! I picked it up and used one of my superpowers (when I open a book, if it has a sex scene, it will always open to that page), which was trivial in this case.
They were pretty decent sex scenes until, after skimming the fourth or fifth one, I noticed a pattern-- they were all porn scripts. When told from the bottom's point of view, there was never any question that it was absolutely wonderful. The author has never bitten a pillow in his life.
But the most damning thing was that every sex scene ended with the top pulling out and coming (excuse me, "cumming") on his partner. In a book, the author doesn't need a "money shot" to explain to the audience that the main character had gotten off on (and in) his partner. But this book had them, with single-character third-person omniscient point of view! Every single one of them. They followed the porn pattern of interest, suck, fuck.
I can't tell if this was regarded as a necessity of the genre in the author's eyes (I wish I'd written it down, the cover did not look like what Amazon offers up when I type in the title), or if this was a lame excuse for not using condoms in the era of safer sex, but if I was going to read porn, I was not going to be subjected to that kind of absurdity.
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Date: 2011-08-18 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 12:36 am (UTC)What a waste of food!