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Porn For Peculiar People

Friday, June 20th, 2014 -- by Bacchus

[What follows is a guest post by Molly Ren. There’s a sense in which you could read it as a stylish advertisement for her erotic ebook Gummy Bears, and I’m perfectly fine with that. Why? Because it’s also a rare celebration of minority erotic sentiments and hard-to-satisfy erotic urges. And finally, it illustrates many of the points Dr. Faustus argued so persuasively in his seven-part epic series on making your own porn. — Bacchus]

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Porn for Peculiar People:
by Molly Ren
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Recently, at a geek convention, I found myself sitting in front of a demonstration of a card game a friend of mine was very excited about. All of the cards depicted different versions of a slim-waisted naked woman, joyously decked out in ribbons, sparkles, and delicate crowns. She looked as if she’d just descended from space to either bury your face in her boobs or vaporize you with her astral power.

“I love fanservice,” my friend gushed as he showed off the cards. He went on to talk about how naked people added a bit of extra joy to what was already an interesting game, and suddenly I was sad.  

“I want fanservice,” I said.

Another friend patted me on the back consolingly. “For you,” he said, “that would be more difficult.”

For the past seven years, I’ve known that I was into what’s often called “feederism” or, more lately, “feedism” — a fetish that revolves around eating, weight gain, and fat. I’m either very rare, or a very hard sell in a fat-phobic culture–though anecdotal evidence says it’s probably the latter, as someone has to be giving my stories thousands of views. But, in practice, what this means is that porn is very seldom being made for me,

Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like to simply have porn — so much porn that it could range in quality from something as slickly finished as a fashion shoot to as cheap as a pair of fluffy handcuffs. I dream about meltingly soft boys decked out in ribbons and delicate crowns — much in the same vein as those fanservice cards, only with big, grippable love handles. Or about glorious queers wandering through a pleasure garden where everything just happens to be edible, and yet at any moment they could meet a cleverly camouflaged beast that could devour them in turn. I fantasize about seal maidens, as soft-bodied as their animal forms, leading handsome arctic explorers closer and closer to the ocean until they trick them into devouring raw flesh and becoming seals themselves. And other times I just want the simplicity of a well-described sushi feast — the gleaming roe and transparent pink ginger slices, the look of his lips as they wrap themselves around yet another morsel of rice and crab, and the way in which he swallows.

Unfortunately, what I actually find is often very different. That isn’t to say that there is nothing for me to wank to — Rule 34 is always enforced. But many of the feederism stories I find on the web cater to the same strict gender essentialism that I last remember encountering at my grandparents’ rural church.

Women are often the objects in these stories, having the secondary sexual characteristics that are thought to gain (heh) the most from exaggeration, and the stories often have a bizarre moral edge. There’s revenge fic, where the snobby, conventionally hot girl falls to the freshman fifteen, or to a boyfriend who secretly augments her diet with cream or lard. It’s all so very middle class, oh so very “naughty” (as if fat were something to be ashamed of or hidden away), and oh so very hetero. I read these stories and pine for queers and femme boys and tender long-term poly threeways… and so, finally, I’ve decided to make some.

Sometimes, being told to just “make your own” can be close to an insult, but in times like these, it’s a necessity. So I’ve started, for the first time in many years, to write stories about rock stars binging on jewel-colored gummy bears for the gratification of their soft-spoken girlfriends. Or of a clever, femme boy with lots of time on his hands and nothing to do but create all kinds of deliciously tormenting machines that pump sweetness into one hole and probe into the other. Or, someday, a 400-pound genius lady, so powerful that she has been able to bend her whole life towards her every comfort, whose dogsbody assistant is sent into hysterics over the thought of losing one of her gifts.

My friend suggested that I publish them under the name “Apocalypse Bear Productions”, as some people might be terrified of some of my scenarios. But once you read them, you’ll never look at erotica the same way again.

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On Making Your Own, #1: Fun

Sunday, October 9th, 2011 -- by Dr. Faustus

Beginning about a year ago over at EroticMadScience.com I published a series of posts about creating erotic art called “on making your own“, in which I urged people to do just that. I now have a year’s more experience, having written and published an entire graphic novel (as well as a fair amount of additional bespoke art) and I have decided to revisit the subject for a more general audience here at ErosBlog. The first few posts will be about the good that making your own does for you and for others. And then I hope to follow up with a series of posts with more practical advice for those of you who want to make your own.

Sculptor Pygmalion knew about making his own

So why should you try to make your own erotic art? Fun, friends, and philanthropy.

This post is about fun, just by yourself.

We all have busy lives, I am sure. But try this exercise. Block off some time for yourself. Sit down with whatever means of writing you feel most comfortable with whether it’s pencil and paper or your computer or even your manual typewriter if that’s what helps set the mood for you.

Now think of something that really turned you on. Go on, there’s something there. If you’re like most people there are dozens or hundreds of things there, but just think about that one thing for now. Now try to write it down. Don’t worry about whether what you’re writing down is “good.” Don’t worry about whether it’s absurd. Or “immoral.” And don’t worry about what anyone will think. Not your partner, not your parents, not your children, not your friends. No one. For right now, this only about you. Don’t worry about whether what you’re writing will “last” — that’s not the point. Have a paper shredder or secure delete program right at hand if it will help you relax. Just let whatever it is unspool in your head like film running through a projector and try to describe in your own words what you are seeing and hearing, or feeling, tasting, or smelling if your mind runs that way.

There, you did it. And how do you feel?

I’ll tell you how I felt the first time I tried, which was rock-hard (I’m a dude, so that’s not an uncommon response) and aroused beyond all measure, as much or more so as I ever was during any act of either solo or partnered sex I ever had. (If you’re curious as to what strange fantasy pushed me to these heights, it was a variant on the scenario eventually illustrated here.) Your reaction might not be quite so extreme as mine, but I’m willing to be that there’s something there, and that you may well be on the brink of some rather serious enjoyment right now.

If you wish to retire to your chambers for a little while now, please be my guest. Pleasure is not so common in life that we can afford to just throw any of it away.

The point here is that the more you were able to let go and write, the more fun you doubtless had. And the more you practice doing it, the easier it will become. The act of writing will be an adventure of transformation and discovery as you find new ways of finding pleasure in your own imagination. As Susie Bright, who has more experience with this sort of thing than I’m ever likely to have, put it in How to Write a Dirty Story:

Writing sex scenes will make you excruciatingly aware of your own body. As you compose your work, you will search your memories to find the most sensitive and lasting observations. You’ll remember what you’ve seen and felt in the most acute way. The strength of your imagination is what makes the fiction come to life; and if you’re writing at your best, you’re going to internalize those stories — when you’re writing them, they feel real.

Now who wouldn’t want a piece of that? A few years ago I wrote here at ErosBlog about Robert Nozick’s famous “experience machine” thought experiment, expressing a bit of skepticism about Nozick’s firm conclusion that we would not want to plug into the amazing science-fictional machine that could give us any experience we wanted. Well, there’s some good news for those of you who might want to plug in to the experience machine for a least a little while. You don’t have to wait for superscientists to make one. You already have one within you. It’s just a matter of working your imagination sufficiently to access it.

And that, I hope everyone will agree, is a lot of fun.

But there’s far more fun to be had with friends than alone, and that will be the subject of my next post.

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