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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sure it is. Mainly because mommy porn doesn't really exist. And if it did, its definition would be different for everyone that used it; and it wouldn't only be mommies that read it. Hence the pointlessness and dismissiveness of the term. It's an unnecessary stereotyping of the demographic that reads it. There's no "mommy scifi," or "mommy mystery", or "mommy thriller", so why the need for a "mommy porn?"
I'd call it, "Romance that uptight Romance readers feel the need to ostracize," myself.
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It does exist, and the difficulty in defining it is the same as the difficulty in pin pointing pornography.
As someone is supposed to have remarked when asked to distinguish between art and pornography: "
I can't tell you the difference in so many words, but I sure as hell know pornography when I see it!"
Point being, difficulty in defining something is not an indication that it doesn't exist.
It's the 'mommy' part that rankles, isn't it? That makes sense.
If only we had a different term for the literary porn patronised majorly by women of a certain age group.
