Don't Tell Me What I or My Writing Is or Isn't...This Erotic Writer Has Had Enough

​I wrote another blog today about feminism and the submissive and BDSM and the current state of my country with the biggest misogynist alive about to rule the free world. I wrote about how you can be both submissive in the bedroom but not out in the real world, in our careers, for instance. I’m sick and tired of people saying that BDSM is abuse or that it’s misogynistic. It’s not. Not done right. Not done well. Not with consenting adults. Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be controlled in the bedroom and find great satisfaction and freedom with it. That is the most anti-feminist statement I have ever heard. Feminism is all about letting women be who THEY want to be. Not how YOU want them to be. So just cut that shit right out. I am both a feminist AND a submissive in my sexual fantasies and reality. You are the one who is anti-feminist who tells me I can’t be. Further, let fiction be fucking fiction already. Instead, I woke and discovered there was something else on my mind too. Something less serious. Something that made me laugh. While reading a small excerpt, I came across a passage filled with purple prose. What is purple prose? Well, it’s something I see over and over again in my genre of writing, and it makes me laugh my ass off so hard that it defeats the whole purpose of erotic writing. It’s anti-eroticism. Talk about a mood breaker. In basic terms, purple prose is defined this way in the urban dictionary. I rather liked its example:

"a term used to describe literature where the writing is unnecessarily flowery. It means that the writer described the situation (or wrote the entire book, passage, etc.) using words that are too extravagant for the type of text, or any text at all. Basically, over-describing something. With stupid words.

normal writing: 
she lay on her bed dreaming.

purple prose: 
she lay upon her silken sheets in her ornately embellished robes of satin, her chest ascending and descending easily with every passing second, deep inside the caverns of her subconscious mind."

An article that does a better job, can be found here: http://thewritepractice.com/purple-prose/

We all have different works we are drawn to. Authors’ styles. You may find my writing “boorish” or simplistic. But one thing you can’t say about it is that it’s dotted with absurd purple prose. To me, that is the biggest sin created in modern-day erotic writing. And because I am a feminist too, I don’t need to listen to misogynistic men who don’t know the difference.