Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Physical appeal limits


(CW: Explicit meta-sexual stuff ahead All stories have explicit content.)

Now, previously on erotica,

A distillation of the theme of erotica, coming from the courtship romance, is coming into the combination of an action romance :

Love conquers all => Carnality conquers all

That's it. 

It could be prescriptive where is prevails of smittenness (Pride and Prejudice, Nerdish Prudes must Die, Red, White, and Royal Blue)

Or a cautionary where it perishes within obsession (Romeo and Juliet, Horror Film The Sadness (<extreme content warning for that.) Perfect Blue, Caligula, Chuck's Snuff <porno that ends. )

That's this thing about erotica, it's within its ambiguous limits it merely becomes mindless (therefore it's better to categorize it as porn and not be coy about it.), finely done with plotless intent. Not as brainless YouTube content farm fodder, where that becomes tasteless shock value. A key jingle that sparkles little less into disservice. Erotica is analogy like spice, once placed can make the entire palette to spicy to be anything else.

It's good physical appeal in of itself, if it acts that way, it'd the dance with narrative elements that it needs to be woven into a bigger point. Ambiguity into literary and narrative into commercial.