Comments on: A Random Post About Why Shay Rarely Reads Erotica

By: Maikeru

Maikeru — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:48:00 +0000

I’ve found a few sites that cater to a fantasy-like aspect similar to the somewhat impossible situations found in various sorts of hentai (copious amounts of fluids, giant, futa, breast growth, etc). Due to the fact that certain aspects may not be everyone’s cup of tea they have a system of tags that include things like bust size, “weird”, growth, futa (though using more generalized terms), and even whether there’s damage to clothing (I suppose some people really like that) as well as many other things.

There’s a tag search system that uses a series of radio buttons with the options of “yes”, “no”, and “unspecified” for each possible tag. So you could specify that you wanted “Hair Growth”, “Bondage”, and “ripping clothing”, but don’t want “Incest” and “Lactation”. The site then spits back a list of stories that have the tags you want and subtracts what you definitely don’t want from that list while leaving all unspecified tags as wild cards. Then tag search is pretty quick with spitting out the list, but it’s of note that this site caters generally to the large bust/bust growth crowd.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:56:00 +0000

I’ve found about 2-3 sites to date that i am satisfied with the organization for(unfortunately, they all have their flaws: one caters often to the ridiculous writer, often indulging in things not just taboo, but rather silly, the 2 others are furry, so if that isn’t your cup of tea, there’s one, and one of the later is so massive that the built-in search engine for it often takes 5 minutes to finish searching for you results. on the plus side, all 3 have massive story archives)
but speaking of the unrealistic: furry/anthro art and stories. i noted the ad you had on you site, sexyfur.com, yet i don’t hear much about it on this site. comments?

note to self: get a blogging identity. i will probably be Huntor or some such stuff later on. for now, i’ll be lazy and just put anon.

By: Phedre

Phedre — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:26:00 +0000

n_n thanks Shay. I always say to people, I am in no way saying anything should be banned or censored..I am way too much of a “freedom of speech” gal for that..but I don’t see how it is limiting to give some sort of content tags to erotica. In fact, I would venture to say it would increase the reading/viewing, because it would allow for faster searches for people looking for specific fetishes/content. And I would so appreciate not wasting free download time on stuff I would never want to watch LOL.

By: Shay

Shay — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:12:00 +0000

Phedre – that perfectly illustrates the point; we need to know what we are getting into when we are going to watch or read erotica, especially if some/many of us may be disturbed by what we see. Now I know that to many people this sounds wussy and limiting, but, as you’ve just shown, it’s an important courtesy to consumers.

By: Phedre

Phedre — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:54:00 +0000

my 2 cents- I recently discovered hentai, and hentai movies, and there are some things though that seriously disturb me in those- lolicon and the preponderance of rape. while my inborn advocacy of the right to freedom of speech narrowly outweighs my discomfort, I would appreciate warning labels. I will illustrate with a personal experience-
while searching for hentai movies to watch, and having not seen very many, I downloaded one that I thought would be a yuri (lesbian) one. Instead it had one of the most violent rape scenes I have ever seen in any movie, with a virgin and lots of blood. I have PTSD which is fairly well controlled these days, but this scene did give me a flashback of the likes I have not had in a long time. Had there been some sort of warning label, or content label, I would have avoided this movie all together.
ok, seeing how much I have posted (way more than 2 cents LOL) I will refrain from comments regarding lolicon. (suffice it to say it disturbs me both as a person and as a mother in ways I cannot even begin to say succinctly LOL)

By: exile

exile — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:56:00 +0000

yeah, fakers are irritating. i mean, if you can’t do it in real life you sure as hell can’t write it.

By: Shay

Shay — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:29:00 +0000

Rachel&George – You definitely don’t have to be super experienced to write good erotica. Like Rach said, it’s about researching what you don’t know – it’s the writers who don’t do it that I can spot a mile away. Kind of like that scene in “The 40 Year Old Virgin” where they are all telling sex stories and his really stands out.

Alex – I get what you’re saying, sometimes it’s good to be caught by surprise and find your boundaries pushed a little further, but only if it’s not like the author is shoving you into the deep end of the pool when you don’t know how to swim. But I don’t think we need to worry about erotica writers taking a warning label as a guide for writing – people already have ideas about what comprises a “good” sex scene, porn has seen to that.

By: Gadfly

Gadfly — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:05:00 +0000

When I was in junior high school, I read a fantasy book called “Phthor”, which was a sort of take off on the Lovejoy “Cthulu”

And the main erotic moment had to do with a boy very much “of age” understanding what to finally do with the naked girl.

It was … yeah … well … kinda hot.

By: George

George — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:36:00 +0000

I don't think being a virgin precludes any knowledge about sex acts. I know a virgin (who is way too old to be one) who posses a tremendous amount of knowledge. She writes incredibly erotic stories and many of them contain extreme sex. While her positions can be all accomplished, the situations are sometimes impossible.

Is it OK to get off on unusual stories? Of course because most of us will put ourselves into the scene that we are reading and masturbating about and when doing so, the story changes a bit and our minds make it possible.

just my 2 cents.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:27:00 +0000

I’m in two minds about warnings. Yes they can be useful if the reader wants to avoid content that would not be to their taste, or offend their sensibilities. Yet at the same time some people seem to write with the intention of ticking all the boxes so to speak. Making sure they cover all the clichéd bases of “what makes a sex scene”, if you add a warning would these authors use such warnings to attract a certain type of audience?

However on the whole I suppose I agree with warnings as they do allow the reader to exercise discretion if the subject matter of a post or indeed entire blog pushes the boundaries.