[ SECRET POST #2166 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2166 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Um.

That's different because wizards are fictional, so you can write whatever the fuck you want and make it believable as long as there is continuity in the verse.

With sex, on the other hands, lots of people have had sex, so they know what it's like. Most of the time when I read a fic, I can tell whether or not the author is a virgin.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you ask them to make sure?

[insanenoodlyguy]

I just use unicorns.

[(Anonymous)]

Where do you even get unicorns

do you own a unicorn farm

[(Anonymous)]

How do you prevent goring?

[(Anonymous)]

how many hands have you got, anon?

[(Anonymous)]

lmao

I didn't say I wrote about sex?

[(Anonymous)]

What if they only have bad sex in the missionary position with the lights off? Just because you have sex, it doesn't make you automatically good at it or make you a better writer.

[(Anonymous)]

Some non-virgins write porn like they've never touched another human being before in their lives because they lack the skill to transfer personal experience to description well. And many are writing sex acts they've never done even with other stuff under their belt. So it's really not that easy to tell.

[(Anonymous)]

How many author wrote amazing books that included the death of a sibling or a child without having ever lost a sibling or a child themselves? Or even without having had siblings or children? And yet no one begrudges them their lack of real-life experience, even though it is a common experience that many readers will have lived through.. Why makes sex so different that it's the one thing people require authors to experience before they are supposed to write about it?

You can write about a myriad of human experiences without having experienced them yourself. Death, birth, war, poverty, sickness, love... If you have imagination, if you put some time and care into research, if you are smart enough to extrapolate from other experiences you've had, and if you have enough empathy to understand how it feels for others, you can write about anything, even if you have not lived it and countless others have. That's what differentiate good writers from average ones.

[(Anonymous)]

Reading a fic and deciding "obviously this author is a virgin" =/= actually being able to tell whether the author is a virgin or not based on how they write sex scenes.