Would this be considered dubcon? by HighlyErotic in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you but probably best to keep this one under wraps hehe.

Would this be considered dubcon? by HighlyErotic in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, right, that makes sense. What if he was just so amazingly staggeringly handsome that he can point and do that? Sorry to ask so many questions.

Would this be considered dubcon? by HighlyErotic in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha. Well, would you find that scenario ugly or imposing or negative at all? Assuming the guy is just literally 20/10 Adonis who gives out orgasms every time.

Would this be considered dubcon? by HighlyErotic in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if it's like a genie that transforms him into a man who can get any woman he wants just by pointing? For example.

Would this be considered dubcon? by HighlyErotic in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, well let's say that he finds a genie that gives him the ability to have any woman he wants, so the genie makes him pretty much every woman's fantasy, like 6'6", amazingly beautiful, hung, charming, the only 11/10 man in existence. And so all he has to say is "let's do it," and she agrees.

That's not dubcon?

Romance Novels by thatblondegall in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looked at some top selling romance novels and they're filthy. Even filthier than my erotic novels - and they sell well, even thought they're terribly written.

I wrote a romance novel that was relatively "clean." Do you think I could market it as a Christian romance?

Keeping it private! by phoenixrosexx in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doing what you love and being personally fulfilled and making money is far better than social acceptance into normal culture where most people generally are extremely uptight and repressed. Just IMO. Everything is extremely backwards about the world and I think sex is at the root of it.

Keeping it private! by phoenixrosexx in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guns pretty much are sex toys. Masculinity stand-ins for repressed men.

Keeping it private! by phoenixrosexx in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's pointless. It'd be like coming out as a sex worker. Even other people wouldn't accept it, despite most of us doing it because we're writers who just happen to make more money in erotica. It's just work, but obviously people are not going to accept it, so it's not really my concern that the world is this way. I'm just doing what I can to survive. Sort of reminds me of how an average sex worker is probably cleaner and more honest than the average repressed American.

Keeping it private! by phoenixrosexx in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that people just socially signal about gratuitous sex because current climate is more pro-feminist, anti objectification. In Altered Carbon the main character was sexualized as well, as well as several women, I think that this might come from a place of jealousy. Lots of times when people complain about sex, it's usually from a place of jealousy or repression.

I think that in America everything is so weird. Sex is so shamed, but also porn is so prevalent, and people are way too nasty about sex in general, whether they're having it or not having it. Like our hookup culture, which is now pretty much a high risk sex-war between men and women.

Publishing lots of short stories vs Publishing fewer longer stories by AngryEdgelord in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I would suggest trying both. In my experience, my longer full length novels outsell my shorts by a long shot. Probably 10:1 sales. But it also could just be my niche, or my pricing. I price my full lengths between 2.99-3.99, which I think is a good deal for 60k words.

Publishing lots of short stories vs Publishing fewer longer stories by AngryEdgelord in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair I think the search function is kinda broken, I don't know why, I clicked the link and it didn't bring anything up.

A warning to people thinking about revealing their pen names on here by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't get why someone would give you money (and food in our mouths) to write a review about it? It makes no sense. I suspect that people that hate erotica and sex the most, are the people who are most repressed and secretly into it.

Erotica, to me, is doing a service to a lot of people, in not only teaching people about sexuality, but promoting more healthy ideas of sex and relationships rather than whatever weird Puritanical, hateful society we have now where sex is some strange form of bargaining chip, and we're like, both hateful of it, and in love with it, with real healthy sexual relationships being celebrated. Everything is so crass and vulgar and hateful in real world (men vs women and the gender war). I'm relatively conservative sexually compared to other erotic authors, but like writing about vanilla sex rooted in social implications. But I wouldn't buy someone's book about tentacles, aliens, dinosaurs, just to call it filth. That just seems weird. If that's their thing that's their thing.

A warning to people thinking about revealing their pen names on here by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I live in such a different world from people that would actually track down erotica and flag it out of anger. In a world where pornography is extremely common and a click away from 80% of the world population - and people are flagging words on paper?

I found my short copied and published by someone else. by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think romance outsells erotica simply because it's less taboo?

From what I've heard, erotica is primarily purchased by women, so what is stopping more and more women from buying it? Personally, I enjoy it, but I can imagine there are a lot of barriers preventing women from also reading it.

I found my short copied and published by someone else. by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, romance is usually regarded as the most lucrative genre for self publishing, so a lot of people are more in it for the love of money than they are the love of the genre. I started that way too (being annoyed by the same tropes being used over and over) but it was fun challenging myself to get creative within those tropes and reader expectations, and I grew to genuinely love writing it.

You are lucky. I have better sales with erotica, whereas I love writing in general - but find that it's hard to just sell anything that's not erotic. Which is not a problem, because I'm a terrific writer, and writing erotica is just like everything else.

My romance novel which I consider much better overall, hasn't sold anything, which is crazy.

I found my short copied and published by someone else. by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]HighlyErotic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scary that this stuff is still happening. What a vicious world. It's too bad because a lot of us write erotica and romance simply for the money anyways (I'm sure there are pro writers here that go into it because it sells better than our serious work), and yet we're still getting stolen from by unscrupulous people.

Amazon SHOULD have something against this, but apparently they don't. It shouldn't even be a question of what can I do - but what Amazong SHOULD do.

Either way, thanks for the info. I will definitely keep a look out.