Porn

It becomes relatively clear to anyone who's read a bit of my blog that I write erotica. (though I haven't written any lately and I'm chomping at the bit to). I've also written flat-out porn before, mostly to sell, mostly a long time ago. I don't know that I could do that anymore. Unless the money was right *grin

What's the difference between porn and erotica? For me, it's as simple as erotica having a bit of character development and at least a basic storyline. Porn involves sex, period. You don't care about the people, only what they're doing. What I try to do with my erotica is at least give people a character they can relate to in one way or another. I want to tell a story, not just show you a scene from a homemade sex tape.

Having said that, I'll admit that I do enjoy porn, both video and written. (yea, that's shocking, I know :p)

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with pornography, provided that the people in the film (or pictures, or whatever) are of legal age, and are doing it sober and willingly. I've seen some porn movies where it was obvious that the woman was on some sort of chemicals, and just knowing that ruins it for me. If she's got to be fucked up to perform, she can't be enjoying it. And I want to watch people enjoying themselves. Not to say that "mock rape" videos aren't fun, but I'm talking the reality of the people, not the characters they're playing.

I have maybe 10 or so short porn videos on my computer. These are ones I've found over the years that I deemed worthy enough to keep on my hard drive. I don't find many. Most I end up deleting before I've watched the whole thing.

Most of the ones I've kept have some sort of control aspect. Not outlandishly, and I don't even think I have any with any serious bondage or pain. But there is something about each one of them that denotes that one of the people in the movie is in charge, even if it's very subtle. Then again, I like subtle. /evil grin

I have a few DVDs as well, but not anything near what I used to have. I left most of that with C. I figured he'd need it more than I would /grin

I like pictures, too. Back when IRC was *the* place to download movies, pictures and music, I had a collection of bondage/SM pictures that was well over 1200 total. I wish I had still them. Some of them were amazing. I have some now. Less than 100 probably, and that's mostly because finding places to download them now without getting any spyware/virus/trojan/spam is hard to find.

And of course, written word. I don't own as much erotica as I used to, either. And I'll admit to having a couple of flat-out pornographic novels in the house (where the story is negligible at best). They come in handy...occasionally..../smirk

For the most part, porn gets a bad rap. Yes, there is a ton of it that's just downright awful and yes, some of it is beyond what I'd call 'acceptable' to the masses, but hey - what's acceptable to me may not be acceptable to my neighbors, so who's to really say what's okay and what's not? If someone filmed or wrote it, chances are there's someone out there who's getting off to it.

Who am I to judge, really? Providing it doesn't cross legal or health lines, whatever gets you off is your own business.

Having said all that, I rarely watch porn, or read it. I have a book of erotic bdsm stories on my desk downstairs and yes, occasionally I'll flip that open - but unless my mind is trashed with a million other things, I don't tend to need it, or even want to be distracted by it. Typically what's in my head is better *grin*.

More on that later~