[ SECRET POST #2961 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2961 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Alexander Siddig/Star Trek; Deep Space 9/Vertical Limit/Poirot/24]


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[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]


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Better early than late!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Woo-hoo!

(I'm sure some of them have, just no one that's willing to own up to it)

[(Anonymous)]

Yet they write slash, and I'm guessing you're implying their fics include anal sex?

So they'd rather pretend they're writing about something they know nothing about and hide the fact that they've done research for it?

That's just bizarre.

[(Anonymous)]

People, in my limited experience, are really weird about anal sex.

[(Anonymous)]

Or they could just be neither confirming nor denying the fact that they've done anal?

[(Anonymous)]

You don't have to actually have anal sex to do research about it. What an odd thing to say.

[(Anonymous)]

na

No, but experience of a thing definitely does benefit writing about it sometimes. It's as true of sex acts as it is of anything else.

[(Anonymous)]

No one's disputing that. What's being disputed is that the only way to research something is to do it.

[(Anonymous)]

You're wrong. Read again.

What was being disputed was why someone would lie if they HAD done the research.

[(Anonymous)]

Research in this case specifically meaning "having anal sex."

The thread was about people having anal sex and then lying about it. Anon then said, "they'd rather pretend they're writing something they know nothing about then admit they did the research?" What on earth do you think that implies, if not "the only way to do research is to have anal sex, and if you don't have anal sex, you don't know anything about it?"

[diet_poison]

I think you're reading way too much into that.

You and I both know what anon meant. If I Google something, I did the research on it. Doesn't mean I can't also "do the research" by looking that same thing up in a physical encyclopedia.

[(Anonymous)]

Context is important. And the context of the thread isn't googling things, it's having anal sex and then lying about it.

[diet_poison]

mhm. And nowhere does that imply that having anal sex is the only way to research writing about anal sex. Nowhere.

[(Anonymous)]

The fact they're pretending they haven't done it even though they write about it, that's what I think is odd.

I'm aware you don't have to have done something to write about it. See: all science fiction and fantasy.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but you said "they'd rather pretend they're writing about something they know nothing about," which pretty heavily implies that you think someone who hasn't had anal sex can't know anything about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you seriously expecting complete strangers to just volunteer that information?

[(Anonymous)]

This lmao. I don't want to know anything about how an author's irl sex life influences fic. Talk about TMI.

[(Anonymous)]

But when smut writers talk amongst themselves about how much research they've done, or how much they know about what they're writing, that's when I'd expect it to come up.

Not random conversation with strangers. That would be unexpected and TMI.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Having written a lot of smut, for many year, across a lot of fandoms, and met by now probably hundreds of fellow smut writers, a discussion of our research has come up exactly once that I remember.

Honestly, fanfic writers are more interested in talking about the characters, be it to squee or to analyze characterization etc. than to talk about our own sex lives.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you want them to? Seriously, what's wrong with you that you think authors should have to tell you what sex acts they have and haven't done?