Read: The Horny Body Problem (essay - Uncanny Magazine #49)

Going through the latest Home - Uncanny Magazine I came up with this essay The Horny Body Problem - Uncanny Magazine that I love so much. Quote:

Despite the richness and humanity that sex brings to stories, all too many publishers and editors are squeamish about erotic content. Don’t bring us your horny stories, their guidelines whisper, just below the part where they tell you not to be a Nazi or a pedophile. No graphic sexual stories. All sexual content must be plot-relevant. No open-door scenes. No spice, please. All stories must be PG-13.

This is what always rubs me the wrong way about “free speech absolutists” that try to tell you that one needs to politely listen to nazis, but keep nudity, breastfeeding and sex workers off the platform.

This essay is also a joyous collection of links to horny short stories. I am going to go read through all of them…

Sex is a lot like a short story; sometimes you just wanna go back to that one time when it was so, so good and reminisce.

and

But sex is part of the human experience, and it as vital to both the expression and appreciation of our art as grief, as loss, as any emotion we treat with greater gravity and respect than the quintessential quality of eroticism. Deeper than that, it exists on a level of need more akin to hunger or thirst, and it is as unwise and unkind to deny.

amen to that

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