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Originally Posted by basschick
i write erotic fiction as part of my living, and every time i crack a new anita and we get to the first of many pointless sex scenes, my only thought is "i gave at the office"  i miss the old guilty pleasure/obsidian butterfly days when anita still worked on cases and dolph and her old friends weren't complete pushy jerks! |
Some years back, I read Anais Nin's _Delta of Venus_. It was erotica, written for a patron, who demanded more action and less character.
I think I felt the same way about it as you do about the current Anita Blake books. The patron's insistence on action leeched the stories, and they read like outline for the stories Nin
wanted to write. They lacked the depth to make them any more than depictions of sex.
Most current erotica bores me. I have no objection to sex in a story, even hard core stuff. But sex doesn't stand alone. It happens in a context, and without a believable context and meaningful characters for things to happen between, the story fails as a story. In that sense, erotica is no different from any other literary form.
But I wish I could read the stories Nin wanted to write.
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Dennis