Sweet Sentiments

The purpose of erotica & pornography is titillating & thrilling the audience, not teaching them how they should/shouldn’t have sex or relationships.

So if anyone is getting their ideas about what healthy/safe sex/relationships are or should be like from the fictional situations in a piece of erotica, they are operating under a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the art they are enjoying. This is user error.

Like, y’all, dark fiction and roleplay are equally just mediums/formats for fiction.

“But me and my partner(s) have open consistent communication & safe words & respect each others’ boundaries, etc. and the characters aren’t doing any of that”

And that’s good that you do that. But you can’t think of the characters as the participants. They’re the roles. The participants are the readers and writer.

when you do a scene IRL, all of the planning & communication & whatnot that goes into making it safe, sane, & consensual generally happens outside of the scene. Why would you expect that to happen inside of the scene in fiction?

All of that is in the blurb/title/foreshadowing (and if you’re reading somewhere like AO3, the tags), and your choice to either keep reading or not. Being an opt-in only medium, literally the only way it can fail to be consensual for you as an adult who is responsible for making your own decisions is if someone Clockwork Oranged you into reading 50 Shades of Grey or whatever. It’s literally safer than IRL BDSM.

Figured I'd put this animation on here too

'til the evening