Smut In Space: Part 3
One of the advantages to science fiction is that an author can create not just a whole new world but uncounted new worlds and populate them with exotic aliens. What this means for an erotic author is that there is no longer a need to come up with yet another variant of vampires or werewolves or shapeshifters. (Which prompts me to ask: Is there any gay male erotica out there that deals with shapeshifting gerbils?)
Anyway, once in space, nubile human females can be menaced and more by any kind of alien that the author can dream up. This kind of ignores the question as to why a BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster) or writhing mass of tentacles would even find a human female appealing. Yet how many old pulp sci-fi magazines have covers of some attractive and often scantily-clad woman being menaced or grabbed by just such an alien beastie? I think I know why this is: Most of the readers of such fiction were adolescent males to whom absolutely nothing was more appealing and desirable than a hot space chick. Giving an alien monster those same feelings not only gave them some vicarious stimulation, but also allowed them to imagine themselves as the hero who would save the lady fair.
Some time ago, and elsewhere, I asked why stories involving vampires, werewolves and the like were so popular among women readers. I was expecting a more complicated answer than the one I got: If you're going to fantasize, fantasize BIG. Well, there can hardly be anything bigger as a background for fantasy than outer space. Any and all sorts of creatures are possible, and I suspect that most of them will find human females irresistibly attractive.
Well, it's a fantasy, isn't it? And if you swing that way, no doubt some of the aliens can find human males irresistibly attractive. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Anyway, once in space, nubile human females can be menaced and more by any kind of alien that the author can dream up. This kind of ignores the question as to why a BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster) or writhing mass of tentacles would even find a human female appealing. Yet how many old pulp sci-fi magazines have covers of some attractive and often scantily-clad woman being menaced or grabbed by just such an alien beastie? I think I know why this is: Most of the readers of such fiction were adolescent males to whom absolutely nothing was more appealing and desirable than a hot space chick. Giving an alien monster those same feelings not only gave them some vicarious stimulation, but also allowed them to imagine themselves as the hero who would save the lady fair.
Some time ago, and elsewhere, I asked why stories involving vampires, werewolves and the like were so popular among women readers. I was expecting a more complicated answer than the one I got: If you're going to fantasize, fantasize BIG. Well, there can hardly be anything bigger as a background for fantasy than outer space. Any and all sorts of creatures are possible, and I suspect that most of them will find human females irresistibly attractive.
Well, it's a fantasy, isn't it? And if you swing that way, no doubt some of the aliens can find human males irresistibly attractive. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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