[ SECRET POST #4835 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4835 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What..... did you think people did with them

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but there’s a lot of emotional thrill and satisfaction to be gotten from reading smut, regardless of whether you masturbate to it or not.

For me the breakdown is something like this:

75% of the time: Smut is meh.
23% of the time: Smut is thrilling! Riveting! Emotionally fulfilling! But I’m not getting off to it.
2% of the time: Horny-hours smut.

I do find it a little funny that OP was surprised people get off on smut. But getting off is very much not the only reason people read smut.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of fans seem to forget that this happens, that porn is for getting off to. Guess it's unladylike to admit you had anything more than a purely intellectual/emotional response to smut someone else deliberately wrote and shared with people.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not really sure how that would be unladylike, but personally I read fic for the interaction between characters. It's fairly rare to find Gen fic, especially when it comes to the character dynamics I tend to lean towards, and either way, I love to explore the characters relationships beyond what canon offers, be it romantic or otherwise. It's fine when people only read smut for it's porn purposes, but there is a lot more to it than just that.

[(Anonymous)]

It seems really reductive to say that smut is for getting off to. Getting off is definitely one of the things smut is for, but it's also not the only thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems like you seem to forget other people have other experiences.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if I just want to get off, then I'll go watch some porn. When I read smut, it's because I'm interested in reading specifically about those characters and the relationship between them. Sometimes I really, really want to read some A/B, but the idea of reading C/D at that moment makes me go 'meh' even though I usually enjoy C/D.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well most fic includes smut even when they aren't PWP. I read mostly for the character interactions and skip over most of the hot and heavy stuff. I figured that even when people read it for the smut they're still in it for the characters involved over what they're doing.
Like I don't even know really. I have a habit of overreacting and this is no different, but I'm not usually caught off guard like this, especially for something that should be obvious.