[ SECRET POST #2137 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2137 ⌋

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


[ There is a moving .gif in this post. ]


01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #305.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, if the books get people out of their sex is dirty and wrong and all smut is bad mindset, that's a good thing. But on the other, I just want to take people who love the books and don't seem to realize how over the top creeptastic Grey is or how badly written they are and sit them down and be like, "Let me introduce you to erotica and online fanfiction that is actually written WELL and doesn't have a stalker for a protagonist or super sketch portrayals of 'BDSM'."

And really, the sex scenes in those books are SO BORING. Like, it's not even an issue of blatantly bad writing and dubious premises, but hot sex scenes.

[truxillogical]

Oh, the books won't do that. I promise you, people check out plenty of smut. Our romance section is our second biggest fiction section (first being mystery), and it moves like mad. Little old ladies and soccer moms love them some sexy books, and hey, that's fine. But there's this weird disconnect, I think. The books aren't porn, you see, because they're just words and all. But I get the feeling that if I took a comic with a sex scene and showed them that, they'd be tut-tutting.

I really don't get the general public mindset towards romance books. It's weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've always found the disconnect there to be pretty annoying. Especially since it sort of perpetuates the social myth (at least in North America--I don't want to speak for the rest of the world, here) that just because it's more socially acceptable for men to acknowledge watching porn, that means that men are "naturally" more drawn to visuals, whereas women are more drawn to the written word. There's a bit more to it than that, like the fact that a lot of mainstream porn caters specifically to heterosexual men and that if a woman talks about reading erotica it's okay, but omg if you bring any sort of picture into it it's dirty and filthy and unfeminine and you are such a perv!!!1 Urgh.