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Sex & the Cthulhu Mythos
Tue, 2014-07-29 19:55
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Ancient History
Sex & the Cthulhu Mythos
Wed, 2014-07-30 02:43
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Smokeskin
As someone who is almost
As someone who is almost completely unaware of Cthulhu mythos (my closest encounter is probably Stross' Laundry series), what are we talking about here? It's not tentacle porn?
Wed, 2014-07-30 05:04
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Ancient History
Meta
Bit more meta. It's an academic look at love, sex, and gender in the Cthulhu Mythos. So it's not tentacle porn by itself, but there's a section in there where I break down tentacle porn, it's history and common tropes.
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Wed, 2014-07-30 06:48
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Smokeskin
Yeah I meant what it was
Yeah I meant what it was about :) I don't know what sex there is in Cthulhu, if it is tentacle porn, or demon pregnancies or something else.
Wed, 2014-07-30 07:42
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Leng Plateau
You had me at the cover art
An interesting work on Lovecraft, always good. And cover art by Gahan Wilson? Excellent.
For those who don't know, Gahan Wilson was long known as "The second most compelling reason that boys stole their father's Playboy magazines."
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At least with Lovecraft, nobody pretends the gods are nice. And wherever you end up, there is guaranteed to be tentacles.
Wed, 2014-07-30 15:28
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Ancient History
Smokeskin wrote:Yeah I meant
It depends. The Cthulhu Mythos runs the gamut from No Sex Ever to "I've never seen that kind of sex organ before." There have been pornographic films and comics based on the Cthulhu Mythos or incorporating elements from it. There has been sexually explicit art, poetry, and literature inspired by it.
And beyond just the sexual act stuff, the book covers how love and gender are dealt with in the Cthulhu Mythos; the changing perception and representation of female, homosexual, and bisexual characters; the use of rape and kink; the history and development of tentacle erotica; the rise of female, transgender, and homosexual authors and contributors to the Mythos; a look at sex magic in the Lovecraftian occult; and some other stuff.
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Thu, 2014-07-31 15:10
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nezumi.hebereke
I am ... perhaps a little
I am ... perhaps a little intimidated. Was that intended? Just tentacle porn isn't such an issue, but something about an academic study of it makes me a little nervous.
BTW, I'm guessing this book came out just a little early to catch Call Girl of Cthulhu? I caught the screening two months ago and thought it was a great flick.
Thu, 2014-07-31 15:28
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Ancient History
nezumi.hebereke wrote:I am ..
It's an unabashed, uncensored, critical review and analysis of love, sex, and gender with regard to some very weird fiction. Feeling a little intimidated is a bit natural - lots of people instinctively think "squick!" whenever someone so much as mentions necrophilia, bestiality, or tentacle sex, not so much because they [i]are[/i] weirded out about it than because they know they [i]should[/i] be weirded out by it. Society has set sex off as a taboo subject for discussion, and some topics within that category as more taboo than others. Which is weird, because most people don't know enough about to really decide if it squicks them out or not. So yeah, I don't make any bones of the fact that part of the book discusses xenophilia and the artistic development that led to tentacle sex as it is all over the internet today, and there's mention of BDSM, genderbending, rape, transgender, bisexuality, homosexuality, pornography, adultery, erotic poetry, hentai, and lots and lots of other stuff. But I don't spend pages on end extolling the greater glories of prehensile penises or the fang-toothed vagina dentata of madness, I'm really taking a look at what people have written on this subject, how they've done it, and maybe a little bit of why.
I actually finished the manuscript and submitted it to the publisher over a year ago. One of the hurdles of getting something from draft to print. I had to cut about a hundred pages of material, and trim and revise some other bits. I had to make an index, which was a first for me, and it took a couple months to get permission from Playboy's cartoon editor so we could use the Gahan Wilson piece on the cover. So yeah, there's a bit of stuff from the past year that it doesn't cover - who knows, if it does well maybe one day I can do an updated, revised, and expanded edition!
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