Maybe Someone was Listening? (Or Maybe Not)

The few of you who read this blog, probably saw my post a few weeks ago about sexist calls for submission in the erotica world and how I would not be supporting, in any way, editors who make them, nor the publishers who publish their anthologies.  Something has happened. Were they listening? I don't know. But an important erotica editor has altered one of her recent calls.

I'm especially looking for stories by male authors, with male viewpoints, about being on the receiving end of oral sex, cunnilingus stories, 69, and unusual settings/scenarios.

Does this change the fact that at least half of this editor's calls for submission specifically discourage submissions from men? No… but it does indicate that there's a possibility for balance. So I'm going to submit to this one. And if we see more of these, I may reconsider my position, with respect to this particular editor.

Edit: I'm having second thoughts.  Reading closely, I think perhaps this editor might be having trouble getting submissions for an anthology she wants to be balanced, gender-wise.  This isn't an anthology specifically about the male viewpoint, after all.  So it may be that this change to this CFS is just a consequence of her policies on other anthologies. I'm holding off on further work on this story until I have a chance to think about it some more.