Has your erotic reading changed since the advent of the Internet?

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Has your erotic reading changed since the advent of the Internet?

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1bergs47
Ago 26, 2010, 9:42 am

I have found that my erotica reading has changed very much over the past 15 years.

Maybe I have grown out of it?

Maybe there is just too much?

Is it maybe because of the internet where it has been replaced by the visual form?

Maybe I can now use a search engine rather than pages through various books?

What are your thoughts on this

2LordBangholm
Ago 28, 2010, 6:41 am

Although there is an awful lot of rubbish out there, I'd have to say the internet has meant more and better erotica. It's so much easier to access the best work, rather than settling for what happens to be available locally.

3CliffordDorset
Set 7, 2010, 9:52 am

It's difficult to sort out the various possible mechanisms, but erotica has greatly expanded during the internet era. I personally suspect that the reason is a combination of changes in the law (and its enforcement in practice) and the fact that the written word has slipped a long way down the list of ways that people get information that interests them.

This expansion has led to greater boldness on the part of publishers regarding what they can get away with, and I suspect that this has led to a decline in writing standards. I imagine, bergs47, that this may have contributed to your change in attitude towards erotica.

I sense a present attitude amongst publishers of watching the e-publishing phenomenon and all its manifestations. What's a point in re-issuing a superb classic in real print if you're going to be saddled with a warehouse filled with yellowing paper. I think the current Ophelia manifestation may have chosen a 'middle way', of printing on demand. I suspect it's expensive doing it this way, but we're in a transitional state at present.

So ultimately I suppose the situation is related to the internet, but that it's more determined in practice by the economics of supply and demand in a changing electronic era of which the internet may ultimately not be the controlling factor.

4JimThomson
Set 24, 2010, 6:24 pm

I do most of my reading off-line except for short stories in www.bdsmlibrary.com. These stories are not for everyone.

5groovykinda
Fev 27, 2012, 10:58 pm

Maybe it's because my interests were shaped by erotica in the 70's (thanks to an older brother's magazine collection, and Grove Press), but modern erotica writers just leave me cold. I much prefer my paperbacks and hardcovers.
I think they've lost that "first time" feeling or something. It's hard to explain.

6CliffordDorset
Mar 31, 2012, 7:59 pm

I blame the disappearance of suspenders (the British kind!).

Bring back 'the giggle line'!

At least my generation of women know of what I write ...

7groovykinda
Abr 2, 2012, 3:15 pm

Okay, took a bit of Googling for the proper definition of "giggle line." It meant exactly what I thought it meant when I read your first sentence.

Amen to that.

8Speedicut
Abr 2, 2012, 7:39 pm

Well, I had to Goggle "giggle line" too. First clue was a little poem: "Silk Stockings", about the donning and assisted removal of same. Aha!

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