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Alessia Brio, Charles McGrath, Donna George Storey, Emerald, Janine Ashbless, Jeremy Edwards, Kristina Lloyd, Margaret Killjoy, Nicholson Baker, Nobilis Reed, Smut Writer, T. Harrison, Times
Oh no! My color is bad! And my gaze is not direct!
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The Times, how you break my bloody heart. You promise me a delicious, interesting article with a title like, “The Mad Scientist of Smut,” and then you deliver… this?
Nicholson Baker does not look like a dirty-book writer. His color is good. His gaze is direct, with none of the sidelong furtiveness of the compulsive masturbator.
Seriously?! Author Charles McGrath couldn’t come up with a better opening line that something that is clearly derogatory, insulting, condescending and perhaps worst of all, uninformed?
Premise 1: In order to be a sex writer, your color must be bad.
Premise 2: In order to be a sex writer, you cannot have good eye contact.
Premise 3: In order to be a sex writer, you must be a compulsive masturbator.
Premise 4: Being a compulsive masturbator is bad.
Premise 5: Being a compulsive masturbator makes you look at everything with sidelong, furtive glances.
Oh, the sidelong, furtive glance! There is it!
The amount of anger and disappointment I feel over something like this bypassing any editorial stopgaps and actually being published is immeasurable for the moment. So, in the meantime, I say let’s compile a group of sex-writers, erotica-penners, smut-peddlers who have color in their faces and directness in their gazes. If you post a blog with a photo (or even a reaction to this post/the article), let me know and I’ll add the link below.
Kiss kiss bang bang, s.
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For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Mad Scientists of Smut!
- The pale- and paper-faced Jeremy Edwards!
- The cocked brow of Nobilis Reed!
- The gorgeous-eyed Donna George Storey!
- The straight forward sorta sidelong glance of T. Harrison!
- Darth Vader sandwiches with Alessio Brio!
- The greenish glow of Kristina Lloyd!
- The glacier-glow glare of Janine Ashbless!
- Emerald’s nuanced gaze!
- Margaret Killjoy with a furtive glance!
