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Post: 56738103_1 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:11:39 +0000
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If so, is this healthy? Is it the mark of a true writer? Why or why not.

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Post: 56738103_3 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:18:33 +0000
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No and no.

Their fictitious! Anyone who is turned on by someone or something that is not real, has got some issues to sort out. I can understand fantasizing and being turned on by a celeb, or someone you find attractive, but something written in a book, or in some kind of comic or cartoon? No.

Porn is not real. The point is to titilate. Thusly everyone who watch porn has something wrong with them, as well as nearly all fetishists and those are based on mental exaggeration and fantasies.

Also, all S&M and roleplay must actually be about kidnapping, cheating, screwing daughters of neighbors, doing underage people, humiliating and hurting people, or the people have something wrong with them.

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Post: 56738103_5 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:20:33 +0000
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I personally havent but I have to a certain degree fallen in love with a few, not as a writer or a reader but as a person, crazy at it is =) I think if you can believe your characters and therefore are affected by them then there's a good chance other people will be too.
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No and no.

Their fictitious! Anyone who is turned on by someone or something that is not real, has got some issues to sort out. I can understand fantasizing and being turned on by a celeb, or someone you find attractive, but something written in a book, or in some kind of comic or cartoon? No.

Personally I disagree with you on the issues thing, I get so wrapped up in my books that I do believe sometimes that I'm actually there and living it, it happens a lot when I read too, and I think there's nothing wrong with that. When you throw yourself so fully into soemthing its hard not to be involved.

btw Reliquian I have no beef against you and you are entitled to your own opinion, and I am in no way saying you are wrong =)

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Post: 56738103_7 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:21:32 +0000
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Ahh, very enlightening posts... crying

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Post: 56738103_9 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:27:57 +0000
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No and no.

Their fictitious! Anyone who is turned on by someone or something that is not real, has got some issues to sort out. I can understand fantasizing and being turned on by a celeb, or someone you find attractive, but something written in a book, or in some kind of comic or cartoon? No.

Porn is not real. The point is to titilate. Thusly everyone who watch porn has something wrong with them, as well as nearly all fetishists and those are based on mental exaggeration and fantasies.

Also, all S&M and roleplay must actually be about kidnapping, cheating, screwing daughters of neighbors, doing underage people, humiliating and hurting people, or the people have something wrong with them.

Nor are the characters actors pretend to be, but I was talking about the actual people in them, playing those roles. Like. . . I don't know, Jack Nicholson you love, not the joker. You just love him playing that character.

That's the same thing. You love what he's pretending to be, not him and not the act of it.You love the fantasy.

People get turned on by their fantasies, not the fact that they fantasize. They ARE turned on the by the Joker, not the act of the guy pretending to be the Joker, and not Heath Ledger (some might be, but that's a separate thing entirely). That's how porn works (duh). You're contradicting 90% of Savage Love sex tips and lots of healthy, well-rounded sex ed books.

And no, its not bad to be turned on by fictitious things (play, some specific fictional things, like Sonic the Hedgehog). It's bad not to know that, after the act of being turned on, they are fiction.

If you're turned on by your own character(s), then fine. But no one wants to hear about it. Write their story, erotic or not, and don't let your turn-ons get in the way of your writing.

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Post: 56738103_11 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:31:01 +0000
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No and no.

Their fictitious! Anyone who is turned on by someone or something that is not real, has got some issues to sort out. I can understand fantasizing and being turned on by a celeb, or someone you find attractive, but something written in a book, or in some kind of comic or cartoon? No.

Porn is not real. The point is to titilate. Thusly everyone who watch porn has something wrong with them, as well as nearly all fetishists and those are based on mental exaggeration and fantasies.

Also, all S&M and roleplay must actually be about kidnapping, cheating, screwing daughters of neighbors, doing underage people, humiliating and hurting people, or the people have something wrong with them.

Nor are the characters actors pretend to be, but I was talking about the actual people in them, playing those roles. Like. . . I don't know, Jack Nicholson you love, not the joker. You just love him playing that character.

That's the same thing. You love what he's pretending to be, not him and not the act of it.You love the fantasy.

People get turned on by their fantasies, not the fact that they fantasize. They ARE turned on the by the Joker, not the act of the guy pretending to be the Joker, and not Heath Ledger (some might be, but that's a separate thing entirely). That's how porn works (duh). You're contradicting 90% of Savage Love sex tips and lots of healthy, well-rounded sex ed books.

And no, its not bad to be turned on by fictitious things (play, some specific fictional things, like Sonic the Hedgehog). It's bad not to know that, after the act of being turned on, they are fiction.

If you're turned on by your own character(s), then fine. But no one wants to hear about it. Write their story, erotic or not, and don't let your turn-ons get in the way of your writing.

At least it's a real person behind the mask they wear.

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Post: 56738103_13 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:32:58 +0000
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Yes, it's perfectly fine if you ask me. ^.^

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Post: 56738103_15 created on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:35:48 +0000
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I personally havent but I have to a certain degree fallen in love with a few, not as a writer or a reader but as a person, crazy at it is =) I think if you can believe your characters and therefore are affected by them then there's a good chance other people will be too.
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No and no.

Their fictitious! Anyone who is turned on by someone or something that is not real, has got some issues to sort out. I can understand fantasizing and being turned on by a celeb, or someone you find attractive, but something written in a book, or in some kind of comic or cartoon? No.

Personally I disagree with you on the issues thing, I get so wrapped up in my books that I do believe sometimes that I'm actually there and living it, it happens a lot when I read too, and I think there's nothing wrong with that. When you throw yourself so fully into soemthing its hard not to be involved.

btw Reliquian I have no beef against you and you are entitled to your own opinion, and I am in no way saying you are wrong =)

It each their own on this. I'm just very firm in what I think about this, and I don't look down on people who admit to things like this, but I also don't understand them in aspect as to why you think that way about something you could never touch or talk to in reality.

I actually dont understand it myself and I even though I know the characters arent real I still react the same way its strange I often find myself talking to the characters I've written, mostly in my head though, and I learn more about the characters then just writting about them =)

At least you're able to write your characters more solidly and better through talking to them.

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