Well, I have read indeed nothing by him. You must keep in mind my knowledge of such Greats of Literature and so forth is actually quite bare-bones (I've never been personally that interested in the who's who of western literature, only in writing itself). As I haven't the foggiest who he is, I may have gotten the wrong idea glancing at the Wikipedia page. And other stuff.
What I got was the vague impression that he pushed some liberal-for-the-time views on sexuality, and some pithy quotes with a "back to nature" sort of mood, but that was about as far as I could parse for this context. Here we run into a problem as I generally assume at first blush that any author viewed from a classic literature lens as having bearing on the topic of sexuality, is genteel code for "this is racy as fuck", just like when certain classical paintings of naked ladies that are considered Art and described as "something something capturing the sensual subject matter", instead of calling them out for what they were (i.e. socially acceptable light pornography for the rich).
In any case not the sort of thing I'm naturally inclined to want to read, most probably.
Though anyway, one of the other things I got as an impression was that he wrote a huge amount of stuff that's contradictory in tone. And that he was a deliberate provocateur:
When the full unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published by Penguin Books in Britain in 1960, the trial of Penguin under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 became a major public event and a test of the new obscenity law. [...] The 1959 act (introduced by Roy Jenkins) had made it possible for publishers to escape conviction if they could show that a work was of literary merit. One of the objections was to the frequent use of the word "fuck" and its derivatives and the word "cunt".
He sounds like quite the character, in any case.
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All that said, why go for psychosexual rape? Consent is good. ~w~
Even well-intentioned
hugs can be bad sometimes if they're non-consensual, and you know how I feel about (at least non-creeper) hugs as a force for universal good.
Also horn-biting sounds distinctly like something that would be a violation of workplace conduct in a world where it's relevant, but that's just me. :'p
(Write what you want, of course, this is just my gut reaction to the out-of-context commentary provided.)
Oh, and definitely actual romance experience is not a prerequisite for writing about romance... So shoujo manga has taught me. :x Fantasy relationships are often about what we yearn for anyway, not what we think is realistic.
The problem particularly when men write like that, seems rather to be the exacerbation of an existing tendency to want to objectify women completely in an unflattering way, and utterly fail to consider what the experience would fully be like from their perspective (at worst, think that girls are necessarily mystically differently from themselves, such that this is all somehow unknowable) and to end up writing something that's both unbelievable
and degrading.
Edit: when I wrote all that I only had the first half of your post. Hold on.
Sounds like a decently interesting plot outline if, of course, a bit too dark for my tastes. (Not saying I never read anything like that, just tends to make me depressed and/or a sadpanda so I have a very limited intake.)
And it's good to be passionate about something—just if possible make sure you're paying a little attention to whether your
lack of attention to other things is going to be something you regret in the future, because downward spirals are not fun. I hope you're enjoying yourself and will continue to do so :'3
*hugs*
(I considered adding "and fully platonic horn-biting" but maybe that would be too cheeky :'p)
Edit edit:
Edited by pokari, 24 September 2020 - 07:04 PM.
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kenshi sounds like a fun game
