Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Zaftig Is Sexy Too 2
I think this is a beautiful group, and I wish more jobs were given to plus-size models.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Twenty-Five Acts
Houston, we have a problem.
Okay. So I'm watching Law & Order SVU, which is one of my favorite shows. I've watched all the episodes.
And I'm enjoying the new actors this season. Got nothing against the show.
This week's episode - Twenty-Five Acts - was about the rape of an author of a 50-Shades-of-Grey-style BDSM romance.
Now here's my problem - the show went with the premise that the below are truths:
1) Because the author wrote about certain sexual acts, the jury would think she wanted those acts done to her.
2) Because what you write is your personal fantasy.
3) And she couldn't have just researched it. Those sexual acts had to have been inspired by a real man/relationship.
Now, I've written a BDSM romance.
On an alien planet.
I've never done any of the BDSM sexual acts in the story.
Neither have I been to an alien planet.
Nor are either of those things my personal fantasy. I'm really not interested in interstellar travel until we get to the space-cruise-ship level. Until then, there's plenty of places on Earth for me to explore.
And the inspired by a real person thing? Oh sure, I'm quite positive I was inspired by real men - who do not know I exist.
It's called imagination.
Coupled with research.
As with the fictitious book in the Law & Order episode (based on 50 Shades of Grey - itself originally a fan-fiction Twilight tale), this isn't a kiss-and-tell memoir, it's fiction, for pity's sake!
FICTION.
Other types of fiction don't get treated like this.
Nobody asks Stephen King how many hotel ghosts have driven him insane. Or James Patterson how many people he's murdered. Or Tess Gerritsen if she's secretly a serial killer.
Nobody assumes these three have bloody fantasies. Or that they're asking to be possessed/murdered/crime victims.
And certainly nobody believes they've actually done any of the things they've written.
So why do people take for granted that it's imagination and research when it's violence, and lifestyle when it's sex?
Why is writing about consensual sex between two adults shameful and writing about body horror and physical atrocities perfectly acceptable?
I don't know the answer. So I'm asking you.
ALL OF THEM.
This week's episode - Twenty-Five Acts - was about the rape of an author of a 50-Shades-of-Grey-style BDSM romance.
Now here's my problem - the show went with the premise that the below are truths:
1) Because the author wrote about certain sexual acts, the jury would think she wanted those acts done to her.
2) Because what you write is your personal fantasy.
3) And she couldn't have just researched it. Those sexual acts had to have been inspired by a real man/relationship.
WTF???
On an alien planet.
I've never done any of the BDSM sexual acts in the story.
Neither have I been to an alien planet.
Nor are either of those things my personal fantasy. I'm really not interested in interstellar travel until we get to the space-cruise-ship level. Until then, there's plenty of places on Earth for me to explore.
And the inspired by a real person thing? Oh sure, I'm quite positive I was inspired by real men - who do not know I exist.
It's called imagination.
Coupled with research.
As with the fictitious book in the Law & Order episode (based on 50 Shades of Grey - itself originally a fan-fiction Twilight tale), this isn't a kiss-and-tell memoir, it's fiction, for pity's sake!
FICTION.
Other types of fiction don't get treated like this.
Nobody asks Stephen King how many hotel ghosts have driven him insane. Or James Patterson how many people he's murdered. Or Tess Gerritsen if she's secretly a serial killer.
Nobody assumes these three have bloody fantasies. Or that they're asking to be possessed/murdered/crime victims.
And certainly nobody believes they've actually done any of the things they've written.
So why do people take for granted that it's imagination and research when it's violence, and lifestyle when it's sex?
Why is writing about consensual sex between two adults shameful and writing about body horror and physical atrocities perfectly acceptable?
I don't know the answer. So I'm asking you.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Cyber Launch Party!
For today only, over at Author Island's party page:
"WIN - leave Susanne a question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a copy of her new book WICKED BELOVED in your choice of either ebook or audio! Please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner!"
So pop on over and comment:
http://cyberlaunchparty.blogspot.com/2012/10/celebrating-kinky-new-sci-fi-from.html
"WIN - leave Susanne a question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a copy of her new book WICKED BELOVED in your choice of either ebook or audio! Please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner!"
So pop on over and comment:
http://cyberlaunchparty.blogspot.com/2012/10/celebrating-kinky-new-sci-fi-from.html
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