New Smut Project

I haven’t read this essay in… twelve years? I think? But someone (ETA: that someone was @whetherwoman who deserves the credit) linked it today and rereading it was a) a treat and b) honestly really helpful. If you, like me, want to write smut but often find it difficult, this essay may help a LOT.

How To Write a Sex Scene (2619 words) by Resonant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Meta, Don’t copy to another site, Writing Summary: Four tips for creating better sex scenes in erotic romance.

worthy. Happy Pride 2025.

Communication is key

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

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you can’t fucking do this to me

Never has there been a more righteous and honorable way to get an ear infection.

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Doc and Raider was created by cartoonist Sean Martin (1950–2020). The comic strip humorously depicts the daily life of a Canadian gay couple while addressing issues faced by the LGBT+ community.

what I say: sex isn't real and you can't have it

Sorting Maybe from Can't-Be: Reality Checking Partnered Sex Wants & Ideals

Yet for those of us operating in the murky world of sex in any of its medical, activist, wellness, pornographic, charitable or pleasurable spheres, an online existence is routinely discouraged, limited or outright banned. My first inkling that things weren’t going to be easy came before I’d even published a word or relaunched ermagazine.com. In August 2023, I created a tiered membership programme to fund the project, setting up a Shopify platform to process subscriptions and funnel payments to our NatWest business account. Within weeks, I had raised thousands of pounds—but then Shopify contacted me to say it had frozen payments while its banking partner, Stripe, investigated my company. Shopify suggested that while I was under investigation I might consider moving to a provider such as Bankful, a payment platform for “high risk” businesses including firearm sales and gambling. I wrote back explaining I was selling subscriptions for a print publication before joining PayPal as a temporary solution. Within a week, PayPal also froze my transactions, warning me it might take up to six months to release the funds. There was no appeal process, no recourse, no way to respond. I can only assume that Erotic Review was “investigated” and ultimately prohibited because: “You may not use PayPal services for activities that: 2. relate to transactions involving (i) certain sexually orientated materials or services.” ...Simply because of our publication’s name, the monopolies that shape and police digital behaviour have acted punitively to limit our reach. Google judged that ermagazine.com must be hidden in SafeSearch—its automated system designed to filter content based on keywords, images and user behaviour to protect users, “especially children”—and have not responded to our attempts to reverse that decision. As a result, we have now been blacklisted by certain servers, with inordinate commercial consequences for a start-up. For example, at the Barbican’s ‘Dirty Weekend’ in late November 2025, we sold loads of magazines and many more people wanted to sign up to our free monthly newsletter. Yet about a third of those I counted trying to subscribe on their smartphones were blocked. These were adults prevented from accessing information about our events and reading our conversations with authors. The insidious impact of the moral judgments being made about our magazine seeps through everything in the digital ecosystem.

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