I want to hear from all of you on this. Since eXcessica is known for tackling Taboo issues head on, I want to tackle a taboo word, CUNT! Is it always appropriate, never appropriate or appropriate depending on it’s use?

If you’re a woman like most of you are and I called you a cunt, you would be offended as you should be, but should you be offended if I write and you read—All this as his swollen cock banged my cunt hard and his tongue continued to fuck my mouth.

Now, I don’t want to give the impression I’m in love with the word and use it every chance I get, but as a writer there are times when cunt is the word that fits best or is the most effective for the emotive scene I’m trying to create. Let’s take the word create. I could just as easily have used build, make or construct. Which is better? Which is more effective, colorful? For me create is much more effective. Now let’s take our taboo word—cunt. Which is more colorful and effective, vagina or cunt? How about the overused word pussy and cunt? For me it depends on when and where it’s being used. I use cunt sparingly so when I use it, it jumps out at the reader. It emphasizes that part of a woman’s anatomy more than any other English word and it has shock value.

Here is a short excerpt from a book of mine where an older woman has been tasked with teaching young man about the mysteries of sex and seduction.

I put a hand over his mouth. “I will not have you arguing with me. I’m the teacher and you’re the pupil. Now, lesson number one. Women want and enjoy sex as much as you do. Okay?”

He nodded.

“And women don’t think cocks are ugly. At least normal women don’t. Tell me something Bobby. When you see a woman’s breasts, do they turn you on?”

He nodded.

“How about a nice ass?”

“Yes.”

“How about a sexy pair of legs, a pretty face, her lips, hair, belly

buttons, her mound, her cunt?”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Bobby reached for me, grabbing me tightly. His tongue laved around my nipple, sending a new thrill through me. He stiffened as if something hurt, but I knew it was the opposite. Bobby was having an orgasm. He thrust this pelvis into mine, trying to get every little millimeter of him inside me. He groaned loudly, and I could feel his thick cock pulsating as his precious seed squirted deep inside me.

“All of those things. It all turns me on,” he screeched out when he’d caught his breath. I held him tightly and didn’t let go. Right then I felt like the luckiest woman in the world.

Yes, I agree, almost any euphemism for vagina would have worked there, but would it have been as effective? To me it wouldn’t have. Although Loretta said the word cunt, is was my choice for her. I thought it was the word that put the most emphasis on a woman’s vagina. An exclamation point if you will. And we’ll never know but it may have been her use of cunt that made Bobby come in the next paragraph. I will say this. I have used the word sparingly. No more than two or three time in a full novel, if at all and I’ve never had an editor ask me to remove it. I like to think it’s because for that situation it’s the best word.

So what’s the verdict. Should I continue to use the ‘C’ word sparingly in the situations I deem appropriate or should I cut it out completely. Other authors, Do you use it? Readers does it turn you off or turn you on? I’d like to know.

WAIT JUST A DAMN MINUTE

I’ve been hearing and reading rumblings a lot lately that writers and readers alike are sick of writing and reading books that contain so called ideal heroes and heroines. Protagonists who approach perfection.

Is that true?

The point of this argument is that so few of us are like the people in these books it’s almost absurd to deify our protagonists that way and the heroes and heroines should be more like us.

Balderdash! Point well taken, but is that what we really want? I’ll grant you that ninety-nine percent of our literary protagonists are probably represented by something like two or three percent of our actual population. But does that mean we want our heroes to suddenly become mainstream America?

Not I! I don’t want the guy that’s going to save the world or at least get the beautiful model looking like Ralph, the pot bellied, beer guzzling, balding mechanic @ Tony’s Garage. Nor do I want my heroine to be, Gladys, an average looking, beaten down whiff of a woman at a Walmart check out stand.

Face it, we don’t read fiction for reality. Hell, we don’t even get reality in Reality TV. Give me the babes and the hunks. We live through these people don’t we? Do we read to dwell on realty or to leave it far behind. Would you buy a book that showed Ralpf and Gladys, half dressed in each others arms on the cover? I know I wouldn’t and I’ll bet you wouldn’t either.

photo credit: Scented_mirror

So let’s get real. We transform ourselves into our heroes. Let’s make them as handsome, beautiful, shapely and clever as we would like to be for when we read about them—we become them.

And Yes, with the exception of Loretta, in one of my more recent books, who ages before our eyes as we cover thirty years of her life, my heroes and heroines are good looking to gorgeous and have a thing about SEX. Example: Joel and his Cadre in Bananaz and Chelsea and Mandy in Tattoos.

What is your opinion? We’d like to know.

An ongoing discussion within the erotic writing and reading community is to define the difference between erotic literature and pornographic literature and when does erotic writing become pornographic. There’s a similar discussion going on with romance writers and readers of when does romance become erotic. Since I don’t read or write straight romance, I won’t get into that discussion. Here is the definition of pornography: Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. Back to Erotica vs Pornography or if you prefer smut. The purpose of both, I think you’ll all agree, is to sexually scintillate and stimulate the reader. Some say that pornography goes farther than erotica and therefore appeals to men more than woman. Then again, define goes farther. I know there are erotic stories that go every bit as far as pornographic stories and I can’t see how gender has anything whatsoever to do with the difference. Therefore, that doesn’t work for me.

Among other things, I write erotic romance or erotica. I suppose, though I have written mostly erotic romance, I have strayed over the imaginary border between erotic and smut on a couple occasions. I consider Bananaz such a story. What was the difference? Simple. Erotic and pornographic alike, both contain sex and were approximately equally explicit. Therefore one could say erotic romance is romance with pornographic scenes. The difference was in the story. The pornographic story was pornography there was no story. If you took the sex away, you were left with next to nothing. Not so with erotic stories. If you removed all explicit sex scenes, you still had a story. It may have been weakened but a good writer could smooth it out and a story remained. The bottom line; no story it’s pornagraphic, story with pornographic scenes it’s erotic. I would be interested to hear your opinion.

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