Comments on: Taboo Erotica

By: Obscenity Laws and Erotica - Femmedia

Obscenity Laws and Erotica - Femmedia — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:45:27 +0000

[…] Taboo Erotica – Women are, by and large, the readers and writers of erotica, however. Women are, by and large, the ones demanding these rape stories, these incest stories, these barely legal stories. […]

By: Normalizing and Desexualizing Kinks « Femmedia Femmedia

Normalizing and Desexualizing Kinks « Femmedia Femmedia — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:30:19 +0000

[…] Taboo Erotica – Some people have said that the reason for the ban on rape and incest and extreme bondage is that readers might get the ‘wrong idea’. […]

By: Anjasa

Anjasa — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:34:21 +0000

In reply to Claudia King.

It’s actually quite sad as Canada is very regressive on these things. They even ruled that cartoon characters have the same legal rights as humans, and that images depicting underaged cartoon characters in sexual positions are just as bad as looking at real child pornography.

Notwithstanding the fact that ‘person’ in the charging section and in s. 163.1(1)(b) refers to a flesh-and-blood person, I conclude that “person” in s. 163.1(1)(a) includes both actual and imaginary human beings.
—Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Sharpe, Paragraph 38

By: Claudia King

Claudia King — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:32:39 +0000

It’s definitely one of those strange quirks of our society that just doesn’t make all that much sense when you think about it. There are plenty of sexual kinks I find unpleasant or distasteful, but I’ll defend to the death the right for other people to be able to enjoy them if they want to. You made a good point about “torture porn” – that subgenre of horror is definitely something I’d consider far more disturbing and offensive than taboo erotica.

I think it’s very unfortunate that violence has become so much more socially acceptable than sex as a subject for fiction over the years. Not that society hasn’t become more comfortable with sex as well, but one’s definitely leaps and bounds ahead of the other.

Nobody gets hurt during sex. 🙁

Well, unless you’re into that sort of thing..

By: Anjasa

Anjasa — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:44:11 +0000

In reply to TheOthers1.

The funny thing to me is just how many girls loved V.C. Andrews when they were young. Those books are FILLED with incest, rape, incesty rape, rapey incest, unwanted pregnancies, forced pregnancies, forced incestuous pregnancies, rape of girls 18 and under, etc. etc. etc.

Flowers in the Attic includes a scene where a 17 year old boy rapes his 14 year old sister.

These books are sold to girls 12 and up, according to Chapters. They have a lot more plot than most erotica, sure, but how can these not affect our sexual desires?

By: TheOthers1

TheOthers1 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:36:25 +0000

I agree. I recently tried publishinv a nonconsensual piece on Amazon and they blocked it. I wrote it in the manner of Rice’s Beauty Trilogy. To me, I saw it as total fiction and an exploration of sexuality in the realm of forced submission, but they considered it offensives. Taboos are worth exploring in fiction. To ignore them can be more detrimental I would think. Great article.