What do you dislike when reading erotica?
I don't like when things happen to quickly, but I also don't like when the introduction drags on. I don't like when it's not very realistic.
I dislike when the writing sounds too clinical "i put my penis in her vagina".
And I don't like when semen is called "cream".
What about you?
'Cumming' winds me up. Cum as a noun yes, but the verb should be coming.
Danielle x
I agree with Danielle above. Also, bad spelling / grammar / punctuation are very jarring to me.
When it's visual erotica--as opposed to written--some of the common tropes drive me crazy. Particularly spitting and the obligatory-but-stupid cumshot. I understand the rationale, but that doesn't make me like it any more.
Oh, and the endless closeups. I want to watch *people* fucking, not organs fucking
The Laundry List. i've spoken on it before, but i'll do so again.
the laundry list is when someone starts out a story thusly:
Her name was Bridget. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, weighed 134 pounds, was 5'6' tall, and had 36DD boobs.
you get the idea? a story starts like that an i am done with it.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
I had an erotic pet peeve. I trained it to roll over and shake hands. It would fetch and catch frisbees. But it really liked to hump legs a lot.
The tiresome, awful habit of some poor, unimaginative writers who constantly, unnecessarily pepper their droning, long-winded prose with superfluous, pointless adjectives.
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Why not read some stories instead
NEW! Want a quick read for your coffee break? Why not try this... Flash Erotica: Scrubber Danielle and Sprite are spot on! Forgot to mention those.
The laundry list is my killer.
But above all - I don't like paying for rough-draft quality (ahem - Penelope Ward, I'm lookin at you). However, free stories can be whatever - I'm extremely flexible here and there and everywhere. Free is wonderful and a blessing and I have no standards (except for on my own stuff).
I don't need characterization, a back-story, a plot, descriptions, exposition, even believability. All I need is a spark between the characters. My pet peeve is when sex is mechanical and lifeless and merely a description of what is happening, tab a going into slot b kind of writing.
Plus, what sprite said.
Stories about gorgeous teenaged girls screwing with chubby, balding middle-aged men just because they (the girls) are so, incredibly, horny are annoying to me. I suppose the target audience is large enough to maintain the genre.
I can't think of a serious pet peeve. But I can say that I do love the word 'cumming'. When you see it in an erotic story there is no denying what it is. It is easily recognizable. Its just a word that works and is proving to be very popular in the genre.
Slang has a very important place in the language and reflects reality. The truth of what is really going on in the language of today's society. We know the English language is in a continual growth mode. Established English dictionaries add new words with each new addition.
Cum and cumming, to me is a much more sensual, sexual, erotic way of spelling that word. It sells what it means.