research

Research, Questions and Rewards

British kink, fetish scene, kinky, research, UK BDSM 25th April 2019 Musings, New Books

Pretty much anyone who works in any kind of creative industry is aware that a lot of juggling and fretting goes on over what is payable and what should be done or given, if not for free, for something other … Continued

How Much Responsibility Do We Have?

characters, fiction, research, responsibility, safer sex, stories 19th June 2018 Musings

responsibility, content warning, safe sex, safe kink

Back in the early days of mainstream(ish) erotic fiction, when Nexus and Black Lace were thriving, a lot of the books had a little note in the front along the lines of: this is fiction, in real life, don’t forget … Continued

Butter and bumsex and realism and research

actors, authenticity, bumsex, fiction, films, mistreatment, research, women 15th December 2016 Other Things, Rantings

Blair Witch directors mistreatment actors

The ugly but fairly unsurprising news that the notorious butter fuelled anal scene in Last Tango In Paris was a real sexual assault set me thinking some tiresomely familiar thoughts about realism. I could just get all my feminist rage … Continued