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branchandrootI find it very amusing that the common wisdom "men writing porn are all about the immediate sex and no faffing around with romance while women writing porn are more about the emotional engagement" has survived in face of the boatloads of instant-action, cut-to-the-chase PWPs written by just about every young female fanwriter.
The "older and more sophisticated" readers and writers make mock of these efforts, and refer to them as tab-a-slot-b fic. This conceptual relabeling appears to allow absolutely everyone to ignore the simple fact that female writers, before they are socialized into other modes, ARE very much about immediate sex and no faffing around with romance, and couldn't care less about the emotional engagement if they tried.
Before we spend time soberly pondering the men=sex versus women=romance writing model, perhaps we should see what happens to that model if we stop putting so much effort into shaming young women into not writing just-sex-right-now.
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The "older and more sophisticated" readers and writers make mock of these efforts, and refer to them as tab-a-slot-b fic. This conceptual relabeling appears to allow absolutely everyone to ignore the simple fact that female writers, before they are socialized into other modes, ARE very much about immediate sex and no faffing around with romance, and couldn't care less about the emotional engagement if they tried.
Before we spend time soberly pondering the men=sex versus women=romance writing model, perhaps we should see what happens to that model if we stop putting so much effort into shaming young women into not writing just-sex-right-now.
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