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Erotica: The Little Sister Who Suffers In The Shadows
13 Dec 2005, 1:29:19 pm
6 Comments
Gracie writes: Erotica is the little sister who is cute enough to keep around, even if she is naughty & annoying to some. But will she ever be taken seriously?
What do you think?
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User Comments  I think that this new generation doesn't have any problems with erotica. But forget about the present generation. Erotica might just be a little too disgraceful.
My view, anyway. Posted by Khalil A., 12/14/2005 03:12:08 | | The fight for erotica has been around for quite some time... It's long been entrenched ni censorship battles, and I knew that mainstream publishers/authors belittled it too. But until now, I never knew how 'between worlds' it really is! Posted by Deanna, 12/15/2005 00:28:23 | I was in one of our major booksellers browsing the other day, and I noticed the erotica section, not that I actually buy erotica and this is possibly because many bookcovers tend to look like porn film covers. Sometimes I think that book publishers think that there is one set of rules for literary 'I hate myself and want to die' fiction covers and erotica, and that tends to annoy me so I tend to read most of my erotica online, and I'll buy classic works (Anais Nin), because they're packaged better?
I don't understand why the covers are so cheesy for many erotic publications in bookform, but they are. I think, the last thing a woman, particularly an average everyday woman, with her share of problems (whether they're career related, man/woman related, image related) wants to buy is a novel with a streamlined airbrushed boob enhanced female wearing hotpants. It's all right for porn film, because this is customary, but literature differs from porn film. In romance literature, the females on the book covers do have an air of mystery about them whereas in print erotica, the women are like the 'town bike' waiting to be laid.
While I veer toward the adage of 'a lady in public and a whore in bed', when it concerns erotica it's disappointing to see it taking the form of porn film (cover wise). It's clearly not working and it only works for porn film.
And it doesn't have to be this way, and hopefully it won't now that there's a gradual increase in mainstream erotic film (with a storyline and/or concept beyond the 'fornication' that is porn, which isn't so erotic, in terms of 'Eros') like 9 Songs and Anatomy de L'Enfer.
I think erotica (in print media) can work (if D.H. Laurence's Lady Chatterley's Lover can work, why not?) when there's a story and the packaging is directed toward thinking, feeling and intelligent adults rather than boasting imagery that's more appealing to teenage boys (who aren't interested in the nuances of written erotica, which I think is one of the most difficult genres to write because it has to sexually arouse a reader or lead them to sexual arousal of some kind).Posted by Ana, 01/03/2006 09:33:45 | | Erotic writing has to be PART of a story and not THE story. The story of Lady Chatterley was a deep look into her phsychic with some marvelously written sex scenes included. Posted by Gerry, 07/15/2006 04:35:00 |
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