Written by One of the thought forms underlying the recent spate of censorship, is that erotica is, by definition, a genre that presents content for the purposes of sexual arousal. I don’t agree with this assumption. I think if a story is marketed as ‘erotica’ it’s going to have graphic sex in it, that’s all. Arousal is [...]
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It’s Obscene: PayPal, Erotica and Censorship
If you agree with these words, please copy them, and send them on by email, or blog them. All copyright waved (just in case you’re the sort of person who wouldn’t want to do anything illegal.) So here we are, people, with a crack-down on online obscenity. By obscenity, we mean anything assumed to be [...]
READ MORE »Naughty And Nice! FREE ebook for the holidays!
We love it naughty, we love it sexy, but most of all – we love it FREE! loveyoudivine Alterotica continues to seek out the best erotica authors for you, and you – our loyal readers – continue to support us. To say a big “Thank You”, please download our free ebook! 68 pdf pages – [...]
READ MORE »The Stories Readers Write
No two people read a book the same way. Part of what makes a book grab someone is the way it keys into their own feelings and experiences. It’s often the gaps in a book that give us room, as readers, to slide our own stories in and become part of the narratie. So every [...]
READ MORE »Defining Depravity
Conventional ideas define innocence as a lack of experience and depravity as anything wilder than the person considering it would do. One of the things we love to do here at loveyoudivine is play with those boundaries. For us, it doesn’t have to be gentle fluff in order to be romance. Cain Berlinger is an [...]
READ MORE »Humiliation
Humiliation can be a significant part of a BDSM scenario. But how does that work? What does humiliation achieve? That it reinforces the power exchange is fairly obvious, but there is potentially more to it. Let’s skim over the power exchange aspect first. The Dom has the right, the power and the opportunity to humiliate [...]
READ MORE »Medical Fetish
Women in sexualised nurse outfits are the material of many a hen-night fantasy, and doctor/nurse romance is old fare. There is, however, a great deal more to medical fetish than this. The idea of medical figures as heroes (and therefore attractive) isn’t hard to get – they are clever people who save lives. Go back [...]
READ MORE »Sex For One
‘Wanker’ is a word most usually used (in Britain and Australia) as an insult. Sex for one is not something we celebrate. Why is that? We might talk about other sexual activities, but we’re still reluctant to be open about masturbating. (And if you masturbate openly, it moves out of sex for one and into [...]
READ MORE »Re-Writing History
For a very long time, the stories we told, were at least superficially very straight. Boy meets girl, trials are overcome, boy and girl get married. Other stories involved men doing important things, or adventurous things, or occasionally humorous and satirical things. Tales where women are something more than just romantic figures are still relatively [...]
READ MORE »Age Issues
The age of consent varies around the world, and sometimes the age you can consent to having sex is not the same as the one at which you can view footage of other people having sex (the UK certainly has this odd discrepancy!) The intention to protect young people from older predators is a good [...]
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