Comments on: More erotica talk. http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/ Romance with Heat, Erotica with Heart Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:40:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Julie Cohen http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/#comment-1073 Julie Cohen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/?p=256#comment-1073 Yeah. I'm proud of the erotic scenes I write.<br /> There are differences between romance, erotica, romantica, soft porn, and hard porn--the level of emotion, the level of explicitness, and mostly, the needs of the audience. As writers, we always write for a purpose. Seeing these very different genres as essentially the same just because they contain sexual content, is ignoring and belittling the very specific market-knowledge that those of us who target these genres have. And the specific needs we have as readers, too.<br /> Thanks again for a thoughtful blog, Sasha. Yeah. I’m proud of the erotic scenes I write.
There are differences between romance, erotica, romantica, soft porn, and hard porn–the level of emotion, the level of explicitness, and mostly, the needs of the audience. As writers, we always write for a purpose. Seeing these very different genres as essentially the same just because they contain sexual content, is ignoring and belittling the very specific market-knowledge that those of us who target these genres have. And the specific needs we have as readers, too.
Thanks again for a thoughtful blog, Sasha.

]]> By: Jaq http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/#comment-1074 Jaq Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/?p=256#comment-1074 Another excellent post, Sasha. I don't know if this will be ever resolved, especially as a number of people are protesting on 'moral' grounds.... And then, never mind erotica vs romance, there's the schism happening between romance and chick lit. *sigh* Another excellent post, Sasha. I don’t know if this will be ever resolved, especially as a number of people are protesting on ‘moral’ grounds…. And then, never mind erotica vs romance, there’s the schism happening between romance and chick lit. *sigh*

]]> By: Cece http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/#comment-1075 Cece Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/?p=256#comment-1075 I can't get the comments on Kate's blog to come up. But I wanted to post this: if people are so concerned about messages about 'easy sex' I think TV is a bigger threat. <br /> <br /> The whole questionaire thing she mentions isn't just about erotica it's about women's fiction and chick lit also and how the RWA is going to redefine romance. Since they ARE romance. :cool: I can’t get the comments on Kate’s blog to come up. But I wanted to post this: if people are so concerned about messages about ‘easy sex’ I think TV is a bigger threat.

The whole questionaire thing she mentions isn’t just about erotica it’s about women’s fiction and chick lit also and how the RWA is going to redefine romance. Since they ARE romance.

]]> By: Sasha http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/#comment-1076 Sasha Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/?p=256#comment-1076 Julie~I agree, we all right with a purpose. My purpose os to make money...so I can quit bartending!! :P<br /> <br /> Jaq~It's all getting a bit tiresome isn't it? To be honest, it's sort of reminding me of all the clique type crap of high school. Youknwo the romance vs the erotica vs the chic lit...sort of liek the headbangers vs the preps vs the jocks. :laugh:<br /> <br /> Cece~ I think there's more "easy sex" in the high schools now days than aywhere else. Well, except maybe the bar scene. LOL ;) Julie~I agree, we all right with a purpose. My purpose os to make money…so I can quit bartending!! :P

Jaq~It’s all getting a bit tiresome isn’t it? To be honest, it’s sort of reminding me of all the clique type crap of high school. Youknwo the romance vs the erotica vs the chic lit…sort of liek the headbangers vs the preps vs the jocks. :laugh:

Cece~ I think there’s more "easy sex" in the high schools now days than aywhere else. Well, except maybe the bar scene. LOL ;)

]]> By: Tracy http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/#comment-1077 Tracy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/?p=256#comment-1077 We are sexual creatures. That's a fact. We are sexual creatures. That’s a fact.

]]> By: Cece http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/2005/01/30/more-erotica-talk/#comment-1078 Cece Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sashawhite.net/blog/?p=256#comment-1078 Honey please, have you listened to the radio? Every time I hear Yeah by Usher I wait for my 9 YO to ask me what 42DD's are!! LOL<br /> We watch LAO together frequently and they're aware of the darker side of life (even if the show is fiction). <br /> <br /> *still shaking head over Author B* Honey please, have you listened to the radio? Every time I hear Yeah by Usher I wait for my 9 YO to ask me what 42DD’s are!! LOL
We watch LAO together frequently and they’re aware of the darker side of life (even if the show is fiction).

*still shaking head over Author B*

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