Yeti, yachts and equality: How erotic prose rises from its knees
"We were joking - well, we are open to everything. To any ideas, except, of course, bestiality, ”the male voice, known in the world of erotic audiobooks as Johnny East, speaks to me by phone. He tells you where the New York writing association Erotica for a Better Tomorrow came from and how they formed their main principles and objectives. Anyone will say that the ban on sex between humans and animals is more than justified requirement, but “one candidate zealously argued that there were cases of mutual consent, for example, with horses.” East vaguely hints, what is this man in his time he worked at a law firm specializing in the protection of bestiality in court.According to another version, which I am voiced by Pepper Laramie, also a member of the group, part-time defender of bestiality was “a world-famous fister ordered by clients all over the world.” Both are East and Laramie is not shy about expressions, their frankness is a direct result of their obsession with progressive eroticism, a genre that gradually began to sprout in the field of familiar adult literature.
Laramie came up with the creative association "Erotic for a bright future" last summer, along with her university friend Samara Nayaemi, and Johnny East and Kitty Bang were soon among its key participants. All these are pseudonyms. At first, their meetings were held in Nyaemi’s Brooklyn apartment, but they all met periodically in a recording studio where East and Laramie met - Recorded Books. All of them are united by the fact that they work in the audiobook industry as voice actors, and Laramie and Ist also sound engineers.
Laramie, on whose account the recording of books like "In bed with T-Rex" and "A Day in Diapers", directly says that most of the reading matter she has to deal with is "monstrously written and absolutely misoginistic." She recalls once writing down a Broadway actor who was reading a lesbian prison novel: “Every time he went astray, I had to instruct him where to start again:“ Ezra, let’s once again “lick her pussy.” like this: "With exactly what pussy? Here every sentence ends with" licking her pussy "." They couldn’t even come up with another word. "
Many members of this creative group confirm that double standards and camouflaged violence that occur in ordinary pornography at every step, in the genre of literary eroticism also bloom in violent color. Kitty Bang recalls how in one of the books she wrote, the heroine “kept repeating“ No, no, no! ”, And the man ignored her and actually took it by force. And then she said:“ I love him ”. And, as for me, this is not a very healthy idea. East has another story - about how in one of the books a student became a woman as a result of a pharmaceutical experiment, which completely distorts the very idea of transgenderism. At least one such story has every participant of "Erotica for a bright future", and their ambitions are completely clear: if they use the possibilities of literature to fantasize on any topic, why invent a world where regressive and aggressive sexual rules reign, which are too often found in everyday life?
Jin gradually fell lower and lower, at the same time Anna’s tongue and hands went higher and higher, and as a result, both of them, kneeling, met my raised member's eyes. He grew larger, pushing the thick brown wool in my groin, and my eggs, each the size of an apple, stiffened and tightened. Anna took up these pumped balls, massaging the skin between them and at the same time swaying them in her hand, gradually gently squeezing each and slipping further from time to time, tickling my crotch between them and the anus.
Excerpt from "Lecherous Yeti"
Of course, each meeting of society results in stormy discussions. Fetishes and the limits of acceptable sex (like the same debate on bestiality) are discussed, as well as another important question - how to write good eroticism so that it is sold. As Kitty Bang says, "it is absolutely obvious that there is a demand for such things, they come in perfectly, readers like it, and that's fine." But is there a contradiction here? Can a text be at the same time oversexual and exciting while being well written and thought out, without clichés? For Beng, “well” implies that the text will convey the sensation of sex — emotions inexpressible in words, sensuality, which are often lacking in typical mechanistic erotica, usually reduced to describing how a member sucks and pulls the clitoris. In her own words, "stone torsos and giant boobs are not always needed."
At the moment in the section of e-books for Kindle on Amazon there are 273,375 love stories - this is the most popular genre in the category "Fiction and fiction". The number of bestsellers includes several books about billionaires, assholes, and billionaire assholes, such as Zalet from the Bad Guy, Charming Cousin: A Novel with a Vicious Billionaire and Victim of a Prankster. The trend for such stories has been set by the super-successful trilogy of E. L. James "Fifty shades of gray" about relationships with a dangerous billionaire. Another trend - to paranormal erotica - came along with Twilight, thanks to which vampires and werewolves became heroes of erotic fiction, most often in the role of wolves or bears. Although Johnny East once recited for the audiobook the story of two gay lovers who appealed to the dragon and the rabbit.
However, the erotic novel genre flourished until the publication of the Fifty Shades of Gray, and with the advent of the first readers, things went even better. Remember the times when vulgar books needed to go to a regular bookstore, look into the eyes of a cashier and return home in a roundabout way so as not to meet a friend on the way and not to light up the cover of a shameful novel? Thank God, they ended in 2007, when the newly emerged Amazon Kindle led to a sharp growth in the e-book industry. Created for home use, the new gadget immediately spawned an increased demand for erotic literature.
Pepper Laramie believes that "Kindle frees people": "With readers in their hands, lovers of erotic novels look as decent as possible, but the feeling that you are reading a frivolous book before everyone's eyes tickles your nerves." With the same ease, a Kindle helps to hide from ugly eyes ugly covers with half-naked cowboys and vulgar fonts that can be used to recognize any erotic romance in a couple of seconds. According to the website of the Association of American authors of love novels, their typical readers are Southerners between the ages of 30 and 55. They are the main audience of erotic literature. Based on these data, it is not difficult to imagine what life situations the plot of the work should revolve in order to satisfy the interests of the readers: it revolved around Aidan, waiting for him to finish his work; he lounged at the dentist's reception while Madison put braces on; she thought about what to do while all the households were going to church.
Let's get down to it. I intend to retire and hand over all the cards to the young and audacious. We need to think about everything in advance in order to avoid wiles against each other afterwards. I told my daughters to prepare and depict their favorite scenes with my daddy so that I could be sure which one of them is most experienced in love joys and capable of all sorts of perversions. Gonerilia, by right of seniority, get down to business first! Surprise me!
An excerpt from "King Hera, an erotic tribute to Pipillam Shakespeare"
All members of the Erotica for a Bright Future community came from the audiobook industry and it is logical that they are trying to understand whether the future of erotic literature is true for electronic books. One of their projects is the erotic transcription of Shakespeare's plays; so, Nayaemi wrote a short annotation for the play "Penisian Merchant". Another question: how "Erotic for a bright future" is going to convey their works to the audience. For the time being, two options are being discussed: in the form of an erotic magazine and interactive stories in which the reader himself can determine the course of the plot. "In each section there will be related stories, for example, a story about the relationship between two men will follow the heterosexual plot."
Ist used community meetings to work out his stories about the snowman’s adventures: “At some point, I realized that there was a lot of erotica from yeti, and in most books, a snowman rapes women. So I decided that if ever going to write an erotic novel, I’ll definitely make a normal dude out of a yeti. " In the end, Johnny East wrote a novel with an exquisite headline "Slutty Yeti." Pepper Laramie went in a different direction - made a bet on realism: she wrote a series of erotic stories about a woman who works in night shifts at the bus station. One way or another, the basis of Eroticism for the sake of a brighter future is the simple idea that, following the genre diversity, new themes will appear in erotic literature. In fact, community members are doing everything to erotic novels have evolved, become more diverse and less sexist.