Re: What The Fuck????????
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 8:41 pm
The basic issue is very clear: if I may borrow some words from A1, a Eunuch is a human with some or all of his or her capacity for sex removed.
Where are all those circumcision boards, Erik? I like circumcision stories too (well, some of them, anyway) and I've searched many times without much success. Post some links for me please! If there are female cutting stories there too, so much the better!
(Disclosure of personal bias: I love penectomy stories best of all, male and female penectomy both almost equally. The lesser forms of eunuchism, which leave more capacity for sexual pleasure - ball-cutting of the male, various forms of other male and female mutilations including but not limited to circumcision - are good story material too, but (for me) can lack dramatic impact.)
The most recent two stories - good Lord! A mere two stories have produced all this fuss?! - they were, if you like, "teasers" - they promised a much bigger result than they delivered. In the first story, the final cutting was rather milder than expected, leaving the girl without quite a lot but still in possession of her clitoris. For me, that was an anti-climax. But that's the thing about stories - if they always deliver exactly what you want, then they are boring and predictable and not worth reading. The key to successful story writing is that it should sometimes deliver exactly what you want. Then the impact is all the greater.
Of course, what you want and what I want and what the next person wants in a story are three different things - or quite possibly five different things.
Where do you draw the line between a eunuch story and a circumcision story? It's very difficult. In fact, the best way to draw that line is to follow long standing Eunuch Archive practice and simply not draw it. Censorship here, of all places, would be a terrible thing.
But in bringing this matter up, Erik has done us all a service. He has made it obvious theat the EA story classification system needs revision. Right now we have:
(S)
(G) and
(Bi) classifications. Now it's impossible and probably undesirable to add a wealth of new classifications - apart from anything else it becomes too difficult to decide which exact slot a story fits into - but we clearly would all benefit from having:
(S)
(G)
(Bi) and
(F) for female-cutting stories.
Personally, I would hope that most of the (F) classified stories were to do with female penectomy, not mere circumcision or any other boring minor cut, but that is not for me or for anyone else to decide upon. That has always been, and should rightly remain, a matter for the author's own creative judgement.
Where are all those circumcision boards, Erik? I like circumcision stories too (well, some of them, anyway) and I've searched many times without much success. Post some links for me please! If there are female cutting stories there too, so much the better!
(Disclosure of personal bias: I love penectomy stories best of all, male and female penectomy both almost equally. The lesser forms of eunuchism, which leave more capacity for sexual pleasure - ball-cutting of the male, various forms of other male and female mutilations including but not limited to circumcision - are good story material too, but (for me) can lack dramatic impact.)
The most recent two stories - good Lord! A mere two stories have produced all this fuss?! - they were, if you like, "teasers" - they promised a much bigger result than they delivered. In the first story, the final cutting was rather milder than expected, leaving the girl without quite a lot but still in possession of her clitoris. For me, that was an anti-climax. But that's the thing about stories - if they always deliver exactly what you want, then they are boring and predictable and not worth reading. The key to successful story writing is that it should sometimes deliver exactly what you want. Then the impact is all the greater.
Of course, what you want and what I want and what the next person wants in a story are three different things - or quite possibly five different things.
Where do you draw the line between a eunuch story and a circumcision story? It's very difficult. In fact, the best way to draw that line is to follow long standing Eunuch Archive practice and simply not draw it. Censorship here, of all places, would be a terrible thing.
But in bringing this matter up, Erik has done us all a service. He has made it obvious theat the EA story classification system needs revision. Right now we have:
(S)
(G) and
(Bi) classifications. Now it's impossible and probably undesirable to add a wealth of new classifications - apart from anything else it becomes too difficult to decide which exact slot a story fits into - but we clearly would all benefit from having:
(S)
(G)
(Bi) and
(F) for female-cutting stories.
Personally, I would hope that most of the (F) classified stories were to do with female penectomy, not mere circumcision or any other boring minor cut, but that is not for me or for anyone else to decide upon. That has always been, and should rightly remain, a matter for the author's own creative judgement.
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A-1
This is just my opinion. I love these things.