hope: Art of a woman writing from tour poster (marfa)
puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote in [personal profile] 51stcenturyfox 2010-02-05 07:45 am (UTC)

The comments make me paranoid about my own porn. Because, hi, ginormous queer who writes more from research (which includes seeing what/how other people write porn) more than experience.

But then, I think I'm ok, because the porn I write is pretty detailed in descriptions of everything, so leaving foreskins out of intricate descriptions seems wrong.

And I'm pretty anti-circumcision generally, but that's not why I write about foreskins in my porn. I think it's more of a problem with the writing when the author is writing about foreskins simply because they're anti-circumcision, and therefore using the story as a vehicle for that opinion rather than it being relevant/appropriate to mention that detail of anatomy right there.

So like, in summary, foreskins aren't icky, and I think they should be written where appropriate (and as someone who is a stickler for cultural accuracy too, I agree to an extent with the post secret-er). The problem is when the fourth wall gets a hole in it and what I'm reading is quite obviously the author's soapbox as opposed to a work of fiction I'm being carried away to.

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