Erotica readers and writers...

[51stcenturyfox]

Following today's fandom!secret on this topic, some questions about... foreskins!



Here's the secret someone posted:




Do they have a point? I was going to do a poll, but LJ is being very naughty about polls.

What are your thoughts? Should fic writers mention foreskins more often (for characters who are likely to be uncut?)  Do you not need or want this detail? Do you assume they're there anyway, depending on how you imagine the characters and who they are? Is this something you've never really considered, either way? 

Do you not give a hot damn?

ELVES?  VAMPIRES?  HOBBITS??? I don't even know.

Are you pretty sure Jack Harkness has a fiveskin? Because I am.

ETA: Thank you to my f-list (unlike the F!S thread) for not being judgey about people's parts. Every cock is pretty!

Comments

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, before I go any further, caveat: I am a lesbian, the closest I will get to a penis is the naked photoshoot that I did with my college BFF (and a hundred other people), and I think the whole thing is pretty gross.

All that aside, I don't really get the foreskin debate because I don't see why it should be mentioned in the first place? I mean, maybe people go into long descriptions of dude's cocks in fic and I just gloss over that part? But I just assume, you know, that it's there regardless of whether or not it's explicitly mentioned. I feel like, if anything, making a big deal about the fact that the dude has a foreskin would take me OUT of the porn. It's like fics that go to all the trouble of making sure it's mentioned that the characters are using a condom, even if it's REALLY IMPROBABLE that a condom would be there/be mentioned. (I once read a Without a Trace fic where Danny and Martin were having sex in the photocopy room and Danny just like, magically pulls a condom out of a cabinet. I laughed so hard I almost peed. THE FBI IS CLEARLY TOTES OKAY WITH THEIR GAY SEX LIFE.)

I don't know if any of those sentences made any sense. I HAVEN'T REALLY SLEPT IN DAYS D:

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAAHA I CAN'T BELIEVE I WROTE THAT MUCH ABOUT FORESKINS. THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE AWAY MY LESBIAN MEMBERSHIP CARD ANY SECOND NOW.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Do you get like, 10% off at Barnes and Noble or something? Air travel points? :D

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

U-Haul discounts ;D



(I do get 30% off at Barnes and Noble, but that has less to do with liking ladies and more to do with selling them my soul in exchange for an hourly wage.)

(Although, funny! Apparently the group of girls who worked in my department before I was hired were all lesbians and involved in some crazy love triangle and frequently got into fights in the middle of the store. The children's department attracts lesbians, I guess?)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Love triangles are AWESOME in fiction.

And TERRIBLE AT WORK.

I like your store, though!

[tintop-lizzy.livejournal.com]

Just waltzing thru here reading the comments.

I also can haz membership card plz? But from the hiding waaaay out in the corner part of the club, kthx ...

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

BUT SOMEONE TOLD THEM CONDOMS HAVE TO BE IN EVERY SINGLE STORY!

I think I'll have to put some condoms in the nearest office supply cabinet or the copy room and see if anyone notices.