Xyantha Reborn
- Actually Very Tame!
A few collective comments on this site have gotten me thinking. This is just me thinking out loud/looking to see what others think of this, because I am still in the process of internalizing this.
Specifically - that Dims is fat positive, except for the stories board, where negativity, hatred, manipulation seems to be more "ok" which would be considered intolerable on any other board on the site. The other posting I recently saw was about porn and its effects on sex life. Finally, for some of us, these stories are as close as it gets to our porn.
People are generally at the "mercy" of what the industry produces - content, actors, film quality, plot lines. In some ways, because it is linked with sexual gratification, there have been parallels that show porn can make preferences more extreme, or TEACH that sexual preference to others (to the point nothing less than JJ boobs will get a guy going, or girls wont settle for anything less than a 13 inch penis). Even look at playboy; what the definition of sexy has changed over time; and how many young ones developed their ideas about sexuality from that "type" of thing?
My husband (who is older) was telling me how when he was younger porn was wayyyy harder to come by in the country; you either had to trade it, steal it, or go into your dads or uncle's collection. There was no youtube, and downloading it wasn't really done yet. Many of us F/FAs started looking for material online when online was "newer" - less content, less choice. ANYTHING fat oriented was appreciated if ONLY because it called to us on a fundamental level.
If one accepts that train of thought...
How much do you think "what came before" influences our writing and enjoyment of fat centric stories? Do some of us read/write certain themes because we 'grew up with it'? Are we driving the next generation of F/FAs by our content? Or is the entire thing irrelevant and the content of the stories is driven totally by the authors personal sexual proclivities, and the readers would find what they like regardless?
Specifically - that Dims is fat positive, except for the stories board, where negativity, hatred, manipulation seems to be more "ok" which would be considered intolerable on any other board on the site. The other posting I recently saw was about porn and its effects on sex life. Finally, for some of us, these stories are as close as it gets to our porn.
People are generally at the "mercy" of what the industry produces - content, actors, film quality, plot lines. In some ways, because it is linked with sexual gratification, there have been parallels that show porn can make preferences more extreme, or TEACH that sexual preference to others (to the point nothing less than JJ boobs will get a guy going, or girls wont settle for anything less than a 13 inch penis). Even look at playboy; what the definition of sexy has changed over time; and how many young ones developed their ideas about sexuality from that "type" of thing?
My husband (who is older) was telling me how when he was younger porn was wayyyy harder to come by in the country; you either had to trade it, steal it, or go into your dads or uncle's collection. There was no youtube, and downloading it wasn't really done yet. Many of us F/FAs started looking for material online when online was "newer" - less content, less choice. ANYTHING fat oriented was appreciated if ONLY because it called to us on a fundamental level.
If one accepts that train of thought...
How much do you think "what came before" influences our writing and enjoyment of fat centric stories? Do some of us read/write certain themes because we 'grew up with it'? Are we driving the next generation of F/FAs by our content? Or is the entire thing irrelevant and the content of the stories is driven totally by the authors personal sexual proclivities, and the readers would find what they like regardless?
