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porn... All nos' fault.
Wow. ok. So. This got really long. And I'm not sure I wanked enough. But. Eh...
I am so *frelling* sick of the "Virgins suck at writing porn!" argument. I've seen it in nearly every fandom I've been around, and it's getting old. You know what? It's wrong.
Writing porn is not easy.
Have you masturbated to orgasm? Yes? Then, yay, you. Now you know what that feels like. Is it all hearts and flowers and exploding stars and the earth shattering kaboom romance novels (and MOST PORN written by virgins and non-virgins alike) says it is? Probably not. Probably, if you don't spend a lot of time practicing, it's merely mediocre.
If you haven't, you can still intellectually guess at how it feels. All nerves firing off, your muscles twitching...
Some people are screamers. Some people are not. Some people blush when they orgasm. Some people? Are bored at the thought of actually cresting the wave (to be pathetically descriptive).
No. If you're a virgin, you don't know what it feels like to have another person's hands on your body. You don't know what fingers, toes, lips, tongue, other sexual organ feels like against you.
If you're a woman (and you masturbate), you understand the concept of self-lubrication. You know approximately how long it takes you to get wet, and how thick, and how much. If you're smart, you also know that there are a hundred variations on how women react to mental visual and physical stimuli. No two women get horny in exactly the same way.
Men, on the other hand, have it slightly easier (or harder, tongue firmly in cheek). Generally, penises (penii?) don't require self-lubrication (although research says there is pre-cum)--well, actually, lubrication that's water-based is probably best. Penises get hard. It's a fact of life. They get hard a lot easier than most women get wet. Does this mean men think about sex more? Maybe. I think it simply means it's faster for them to get excited about it.
Everyone has their own personal kinks. Does this mean the characters you write about can't share yours? Nope. Unless it's been explicitly shown in canon, who's to say Lizzie Weir doesn't like being tied up, John Crichton hates chocolate licked off his body, or Scott Summers and Jean Grey routinely have sex in the lake because water turns them on?
Honestly, the limits of porn are your imagination. If it turns you on writing it, then you've done well. If it turns other people on, then you've done fabulously.
Does it need to be realistic? Sure. Does it need to read like a sex manual? Dear god, no.
If you're not a virgin, does this make you better at porn? Fuck, no. I wave Laurell K. Hamilton's entirely pathetic and stupid porn scenes from every book she's written. They are not hot, they are not kinky, and they're boring.
Writing porn isn't like writing other things.
It isn't? I thought it was all about your descriptive imagination. Could've fooled me.
HOW is writing porn any different from writing, say, an action scene? A sting operation? A black op? A drug bust? Have you personally been involved in ANY of those? No? Then WHY is it any different?
And don't give me the "research" bullshit. Because it applies to porn just as much.
Been on a jewelry heist lately? No? Then why can you write one and be told "ohmigod that was so real!"
How can you know it's real if you've never done it?
Imagination.
Porn is also subjective. What turns one person on will turn another off.
Language certainly figures into it.
Some people don't like realistic porn (including those who've done it). Others prefer it. Still others prefer the hearts and flowery language of romance novels.
You've got your common variety slang terms. Dick, cunt, cock, pussy, tits.
Then there's the factual terms. Breasts, vagina, penis.
And there's the strange ones. Sweater meat. Kielbassa. Pita pocket.
The flowery ones. Feminine core. Petals (I am SO SICK of petals. MY GOD. It's not a fucking flower!). Steel rod (or does that fall under one of the others?)
Then there are the emotions. A lot of people are about the emotions involved. The true love and trust built up.
Other people are all about the one-night stands in back alleys. Some are about the masochism of not liking the person who's being fucked.
There are balanced people, who like all of the above (except the petals). There are people who hate one thing, but madly love another, and people who are indifferent, but prefer angry tablesex.
And there are even people who don't like porn at all. Who look at it and think, "Well, there's someone who didn't have any imagination, so they wrote porn instead."
In the end, the only thing limiting porn is your own personal preferences. And your own willingness to research, push the boundaries... Or go out and have sex against the wall of a bar/pub/tavern with that cute guy in the lunchroom...
Legitemate porn is all in the mind.
I am so *frelling* sick of the "Virgins suck at writing porn!" argument. I've seen it in nearly every fandom I've been around, and it's getting old. You know what? It's wrong.
Writing porn is not easy.
Have you masturbated to orgasm? Yes? Then, yay, you. Now you know what that feels like. Is it all hearts and flowers and exploding stars and the earth shattering kaboom romance novels (and MOST PORN written by virgins and non-virgins alike) says it is? Probably not. Probably, if you don't spend a lot of time practicing, it's merely mediocre.
If you haven't, you can still intellectually guess at how it feels. All nerves firing off, your muscles twitching...
Some people are screamers. Some people are not. Some people blush when they orgasm. Some people? Are bored at the thought of actually cresting the wave (to be pathetically descriptive).
No. If you're a virgin, you don't know what it feels like to have another person's hands on your body. You don't know what fingers, toes, lips, tongue, other sexual organ feels like against you.
If you're a woman (and you masturbate), you understand the concept of self-lubrication. You know approximately how long it takes you to get wet, and how thick, and how much. If you're smart, you also know that there are a hundred variations on how women react to mental visual and physical stimuli. No two women get horny in exactly the same way.
Men, on the other hand, have it slightly easier (or harder, tongue firmly in cheek). Generally, penises (penii?) don't require self-lubrication (although research says there is pre-cum)--well, actually, lubrication that's water-based is probably best. Penises get hard. It's a fact of life. They get hard a lot easier than most women get wet. Does this mean men think about sex more? Maybe. I think it simply means it's faster for them to get excited about it.
Everyone has their own personal kinks. Does this mean the characters you write about can't share yours? Nope. Unless it's been explicitly shown in canon, who's to say Lizzie Weir doesn't like being tied up, John Crichton hates chocolate licked off his body, or Scott Summers and Jean Grey routinely have sex in the lake because water turns them on?
Honestly, the limits of porn are your imagination. If it turns you on writing it, then you've done well. If it turns other people on, then you've done fabulously.
Does it need to be realistic? Sure. Does it need to read like a sex manual? Dear god, no.
If you're not a virgin, does this make you better at porn? Fuck, no. I wave Laurell K. Hamilton's entirely pathetic and stupid porn scenes from every book she's written. They are not hot, they are not kinky, and they're boring.
Writing porn isn't like writing other things.
It isn't? I thought it was all about your descriptive imagination. Could've fooled me.
HOW is writing porn any different from writing, say, an action scene? A sting operation? A black op? A drug bust? Have you personally been involved in ANY of those? No? Then WHY is it any different?
And don't give me the "research" bullshit. Because it applies to porn just as much.
Been on a jewelry heist lately? No? Then why can you write one and be told "ohmigod that was so real!"
How can you know it's real if you've never done it?
Imagination.
Porn is also subjective. What turns one person on will turn another off.
Language certainly figures into it.
Some people don't like realistic porn (including those who've done it). Others prefer it. Still others prefer the hearts and flowery language of romance novels.
You've got your common variety slang terms. Dick, cunt, cock, pussy, tits.
Then there's the factual terms. Breasts, vagina, penis.
And there's the strange ones. Sweater meat. Kielbassa. Pita pocket.
The flowery ones. Feminine core. Petals (I am SO SICK of petals. MY GOD. It's not a fucking flower!). Steel rod (or does that fall under one of the others?)
Then there are the emotions. A lot of people are about the emotions involved. The true love and trust built up.
Other people are all about the one-night stands in back alleys. Some are about the masochism of not liking the person who's being fucked.
There are balanced people, who like all of the above (except the petals). There are people who hate one thing, but madly love another, and people who are indifferent, but prefer angry tablesex.
And there are even people who don't like porn at all. Who look at it and think, "Well, there's someone who didn't have any imagination, so they wrote porn instead."
In the end, the only thing limiting porn is your own personal preferences. And your own willingness to research, push the boundaries... Or go out and have sex against the wall of a bar/pub/tavern with that cute guy in the lunchroom...
Legitemate porn is all in the mind.
Re: *eyes*
And. Never. Talking about angry tablesex makes my brain happy.