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Old 01-05-2011, 10:10 PM   #432
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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash View Post
I don't know if you've seen my previous posts, but I may be the only person on this thread who looked at the books (besides you, of course). I completely agree with your description. I was only able to read the samples because the B&N prices are out of my budget. (My limit for ANY book right now is $6; I would have purchased them both otherwise.) My assessment was that it was not pornography. In fact, I stated that though it was labeled as gay erotica, I felt this was done for purposes of reaching a niche market. (Novels with gay sexual content haven't quite gone mainstream yet.)

I think anyone who is claiming it is porn clearly hasn't even looked at it. It doesn't even meet my definition of erotica in the usual sense. The characterization and story development is more like that of a contemporary novel. But someone, apparently your publisher, made the decision to clearly market it as gay erotica. I see the value of this in terms of where you started, but I fear that will make things a lot harder where you are now and I have no idea how that can be overcome.
This is almost exactly what I've assumed.

I only think of a novel as erotica if I feel that its sex scenes are designed to titilate in some way. Many exerpts from "romance" novels appear to be titilating but perhaps without the required explicitness for me to think of it as erotica. However, I have read fairly explicit sex scenes that don't titilate in any way which I would not call erotica. But if I feel that the sex scenes are only there to facilitate the story, I may well revise my opinion. So, even with some guidelines I guess it's pretty subjective. As I've said in a previous post though, the "gay" qualifier does not influence my own internal classifications.

I'm still not sure about the difference between erotica and pornography given my own frame of reference, but I do not have a problem with books labeled either way.

I've joined Barnes & Noble. I always thought of their material as painfully geo-restricted, but in any case I own a Kindle. Anyone know if it's possible to "convince" a B&N purchase to become a Kindle file? Don't answer that, I can research that myself.

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