There's definitely an element of body politics in there. Plus, in the of comparing female to male anatomy, it's much less obvious what's going on in terms of arousal or climax and there's not a lot of encouragement to find out. So while it's easy to use things like getting hard or ejaculation in a story as shorthand for male arousal and climax and have those be mostly understood by the readers, doing so with female sexual responses (in het or femslash) is more difficult. First for actually knowing as an author what can be used, and second for having them understood by readers as signs of arousal rather than some kind of weird malfunction or injury.
And as much as I love sex-ed stuffs and reading voluntarily shared TMI and how useful it's been, I admit I would feel a little skeezy searching that stuff out that's written for a real-life context in order to write porn.
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Date: 2011-08-07 02:34 pm (UTC)And as much as I love sex-ed stuffs and reading voluntarily shared TMI and how useful it's been, I admit I would feel a little skeezy searching that stuff out that's written for a real-life context in order to write porn.