/report: porn and smut and filth, oh my!

[rageprufrock]

This week on /report, we're joined by cherrybina to chat about porn, porn, and when we're done with that, some more porn. Well, we start off by answering some of our backlog of listener questions, but then we get straight to the smut — what makes it hot, what makes it not, how we write it, why we read it, and horrifying childhood tales of erotica discovery and humiliation in bookstores. So plug in, turn up the volume, and crank on your iBuzz. (PS: If you actually turn on your iBuzz while listening to this, please don't tell us.)

Click here to download or stream online, and as always, the podcast will be available shortly on the RSS/iTunes feed.

• Prodigal by i_claudia [Merlin RPF, Bradley/Colin]


• The One Where There is a Truly Ridiculous Amount of Fucking by ifyouweremine [Merlin, Merlin/Arthur]


• Don't Pull Your Punches by versy [Inception, Arthur/Eames]


• Hallefuckinglujah by weatherfront [Inception, Arthur/Eames]


• Count to Three by Lightgetsin [Dresden Files, Marcone/Dresden/Kincaid]


• In Heat by Elandrialor [H50, Steve/Danny]


• Talk About the Blind Leading the Visually Challenged by Pforte [BBC Sherlock, Sherlock/John]


• Discipline by Bentrumors [BBC Merlin, Merlin/Arthur]


• Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson by Sarka [Star Trek XI, McCoy/girl!Chekov]

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

in response to gail:

so, unfortunately i didn't actually listen to the report, but as someone who did read m/m fic from about the age of 12, i can say i did read ratings. of course, there was always the titillating intrigue of a fic involving sex... but i know that some things i chose to stay away from (perhaps because so much of it was available?).

however, by now (i am in my 20s), i have read my fair share of m/m porn (as well as much other, well-written stuff!) and i am sure this has somehow influenced my "emergent female sexuality." i am not quite sure how. (het sex seems somehow less romantic, less a partnering of equals i guess? and of course RL sex is always less epic than in fiction! so perhaps we equate f/m sex as less epic than m/m sex?)

i actually haven't seen anything else written about this subject, and would be quite curious to read about it. thanks for remembering us younguns (though i don't think i, or most 12 year olds, were/are all that innocent...)

perhaps the best thing the internet can offer young female readers is not protection from smut, necessarily, but stories about strong women, who respect their bodies, and have pretty great sex? what first pops to mind is samdonne's stuff, but i'm sure there's other stuff out there, it's just that the m/m stuff seems to dominate in the well-written category (or is that just my focus?)

just my two cents!

ll.