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Brainstorm post
Aug. 11th, 2011 11:32 pmSince a lot of people expressed interest in a 'guide to writing femslash porn', and interest in chipping in their thoughts I thought I'd start by making a brainstorm post. I won't have time to write up a proper post in a couple of days, so I thought this would be a good place to collect some thoughts.
Firstly, I thought that my post (if other people write/have written posts like this I will be very happy to link to them too) would have subcategories. Off the top of my head, in no particular order, these would be:
Bodies/anatomy/physiology
Writing porn and how it's not like describing people having sex (ie, porn is actually supposed to turn people on)
Terminology and various words you should and shouldn't use
Feminism (that is, the difference between porn created by women for women about women and porn created by men for men about women) (or something like it) (I thought this part could be at the end, so people who weren't interested could skip it)
Also, I thought I'd include some good examples and perhaps if I can find some nice links to stuff other people has written and so on.
So, what should be in the subcategories?
Bodies
A basic (and possibly quite dry) overview of the vagina with all parts marked out in medical latin. Also perhaps a bit about various orgasm, or the theories of various orgasm. Also perhaps something about how different people are. This is the bit my medical student heart is going to want to be really long and the rest of me is gonna try to keep really brief. Also, about transwomen, women with disabilites, FGM and so on. This bit I'm going to need help on, since I'm a bio-woman. Then, on the other hand, I'm quite good at reading medical literature. On the third hand (this is Zaphod's hand we're talking about), if there is anyone who wants to share first hand experience that would be awesome.
ETA: The Lesbian Sex 101-post is now up!
Writing porn
This is perhaps the most relevant part. What is porn? What is the purpose? Well, I would say that what makes porn porn is that you want to turn people on with it. You might not always succeed, but it is the purpose. It also doesn't have to be the sole purpose, but it has to be there. I do think some people disagree, so this is something to think on. Tomorrow, when I'm not so tired.
Really have to go to bed now. Feel free to discuss in the comments if you want.
ETA no 1: Techniques of how to do various things. I'm thinking of maybe making this a series, as was suggested, and start with a sort of 'lesbian sex 101', or something like it, with bodies and basic techniques. I'll probably steal a lot of stuff from my favorite book on the subject, which is in Swedish: 'Stora sexboken för tjejer som har sex med tjejer' (Big book of sex for women who have sex with women). It's not that I want to write sex ed per se, but I think that it needs to be done to establish a sort of baseline or common ground. Because this is supposed to be a guide to writing femslash, and if we (that is, I) don't do some sex ed, well, it's not really a guide to femslash porn but to porn in general, yes? Or maybe that's just me.
Firstly, I thought that my post (if other people write/have written posts like this I will be very happy to link to them too) would have subcategories. Off the top of my head, in no particular order, these would be:
Bodies/anatomy/physiology
Writing porn and how it's not like describing people having sex (ie, porn is actually supposed to turn people on)
Terminology and various words you should and shouldn't use
Feminism (that is, the difference between porn created by women for women about women and porn created by men for men about women) (or something like it) (I thought this part could be at the end, so people who weren't interested could skip it)
Also, I thought I'd include some good examples and perhaps if I can find some nice links to stuff other people has written and so on.
So, what should be in the subcategories?
Bodies
A basic (and possibly quite dry) overview of the vagina with all parts marked out in medical latin. Also perhaps a bit about various orgasm, or the theories of various orgasm. Also perhaps something about how different people are. This is the bit my medical student heart is going to want to be really long and the rest of me is gonna try to keep really brief. Also, about transwomen, women with disabilites, FGM and so on. This bit I'm going to need help on, since I'm a bio-woman. Then, on the other hand, I'm quite good at reading medical literature. On the third hand (this is Zaphod's hand we're talking about), if there is anyone who wants to share first hand experience that would be awesome.
ETA: The Lesbian Sex 101-post is now up!
Writing porn
This is perhaps the most relevant part. What is porn? What is the purpose? Well, I would say that what makes porn porn is that you want to turn people on with it. You might not always succeed, but it is the purpose. It also doesn't have to be the sole purpose, but it has to be there. I do think some people disagree, so this is something to think on. Tomorrow, when I'm not so tired.
Really have to go to bed now. Feel free to discuss in the comments if you want.
ETA no 1: Techniques of how to do various things. I'm thinking of maybe making this a series, as was suggested, and start with a sort of 'lesbian sex 101', or something like it, with bodies and basic techniques. I'll probably steal a lot of stuff from my favorite book on the subject, which is in Swedish: 'Stora sexboken för tjejer som har sex med tjejer' (Big book of sex for women who have sex with women). It's not that I want to write sex ed per se, but I think that it needs to be done to establish a sort of baseline or common ground. Because this is supposed to be a guide to writing femslash, and if we (that is, I) don't do some sex ed, well, it's not really a guide to femslash porn but to porn in general, yes? Or maybe that's just me.
