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07. http://i.imgur.com/MPW2D46.jpg

You're definitely going to have to link me to some examples if you want to convince me I should agree. *ahem*

Not OP, but perhaps I can help out.

The series this is fic for is set in (late, late) Georgian times, but the writing style is inspired by Victorian porn: it's slash, btw (http://missviolet.livejournal.com/19662.html).

I kind of agree, but I also kind of feel like most writers wouldn't be able to pull it off, and it'd be kind of bad and over-the-top and a caricatured version of Victorian writing. Ersatz erotica.

Seconded.

...and some of us can.

Most Victorian writers I've read couldn't pull it off. Isn't the over-the-topness part of the charm?

Sorry, OP, I can't with Victorian style in written porn. It cracks me up no worse than Joyce's letters to his wife.

LOL I had forgotten about those... doesn't he say he wants her to fart in his mouth or something??

That, and he also describes how sexily she shits... and how her underpants and her anus are slightly dirty after that and- whatever

In fact his letters are quality porn; the only problem is that I am absolutely unable to take scat seriously.

Forgive me if I've misrecognized this pic, but...is that Dr. Watson and one of the women clients he's always ogling in the stories?

...It is? Uh. Wow. I did NOT know he was drawn that hot back then.

nayrt

I'm not sure if it is (a cursory GIS suggests it's from Hound of the Baskervilles), but yes, canon Watson ain't bad-lookin' at all.

http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=210

I'd prefer Victorian-style visual porn -- drawings and paintings and the like. 'Cause Victorian writing would look kind of silly in porn, but Victorian people in all those layers of Victorian dress always look seriously fine, like that dude in the pic.

Victorian writing does look somewhat strange in porn, but it's also really kind of fascinating, in a way. It's very interesting to read. Not necessarily sexy, but interesting.

This. On the second thought, I'd read the hell out of these fics because of all the linguo-stylistic peculiarities.

but I'd still be laughing :(

I find it very sexy. Language and lust, what's not to love?

I wouldn't have agreed until recently, when I read a spectacular Holmes fic.

I agree, though, that most writers just don't have the chops to pull it off.

Edited 2013-10-20 21:13 (UTC)

Link or it didn't happen.

Here's a couple of het Holmes prons in the original ACD style that I think are quite good. I know Holmes is Edwardian and not Victorian, so it might not satisfy OP, but it's something.

SH/Irene - http://archiveofourown.org/works/358840
SH/OFC - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5701596/1/

Holmes is Victorian enough, I would say - they were first published in the 1890s after all. The Holmes canon bridges the two era. But I think spiritually it's more at home in the late Victorian era than in the Edwardian era (although, realistically, I don't think people draw a strong distinction between the two eras anyway - at least not to my knowledge).

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Link, eh?

Holmes/Watson, I guess based on the 2009 film?

Written by blue soaring, recced by

ponderosa.

18th century: Fanny Hill
"My breasts, if it is not too bold a figure to call so two hard, firm, rising hillocks, that just began to shew themselves, or signify anything to the touch, employed and amused her hands awhile, till, slipping down lower, over a smooth track, she could just feel the soft silky down that had but a few months before put forth and garnished the mount-pleasant of those parts, and promised to spread a grateful shelter over the sweet seat of the most exquisite sensation, and which had been, till that instant, the seat of the most insensible innocence. Her fingers played and strove to twine in the young tendrils of that moss, which nature has contrived at once for use and ornament."

1870: Venus in Furs
"A beautiful woman with a radiant smile upon her face, with abundant hair tied into a classical knot, on which white powder lay like a soft hoarfrost, was resting on an ottoman, supported on her left arm. She was nude in her dark furs. Her right hand played with a lash, while her bare foot rested carelessly on a man, lying before her like a slave, like a dog. In the sharply outlined, but well-formed linaments of this man lay brooding melancholy and passionate devotion; he looked up to her with the ecstatic burning eye of a martyr."

1879: The Pearl
"Ah, coz dear, can you be so innocent? Feel here the dart of love all impatient to enter the mossy grotto between your thighs," I whispered, placing her hand upon my prick, which I had suddenly let out of the restraining trousers. "How you sigh; grasp it in your hand, dear, is it possible that you do not understand what it is for?"

The Venus in Furs is A++ would recommend. I don't have any sympathy for the main character, but it's a good story, and one of the firsts that detailed S/M around the POV of the masochist.

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