amaresu: Sapphire and Steel from the opening (ds9-ezri)
amaresu ([personal profile] amaresu) wrote in [community profile] fem_thoughts2011-08-03 01:13 am
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Introduction/Paryt/Hang Out Post!

So, apparently this community has 211 members with 308 subscribers and I bet you barely know each other. I know that I barely know you. So we are having an introduction/party/hang out post of greatness!

What do you do here? Introduce yourself in a comment, reply to other peoples comments, talk about that bizarre idea you've had and didn't think anyone else would be interested in, throw out some ideas you think this comm could have fun with, basically have fun and get to know each other. There's no wrong way to do this. Except .gif spamming in a top level comment because there are still people out there on dial up.

I'll go first in the comments.
dagas_isa: Kanzaki Nao from Liar Game (Default)

[personal profile] dagas_isa 2011-08-07 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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.