My pleasure. I hope you will a space that suits your needs .
As a side note regarding the Fediverse/Lemmy/Piefed/etc. as a publishing space: be aware that you can create your own community (say, one dedicated to your type of erotica) but my remarks remain valid: you will need an instance (aka, the server on which lives your community) that is ok to host potentially offensive content (or worse). Or you can host your own instance (aka, the physical server on which your community lives) but then you need to be yourself, as a person, ok to face the potential legal risks of publishing offensive content (or worse).
Ignoring smut and the shitload crap that is being written just for making some money out of people feeling an irrepressible need to… scratch an itch (which is a legit business, don’t get me wrong it’s just not a quality product), erotica can be great literature. Sadly, a bit like poetry I’m almost tempted to say, most of the time erotica is frowned upon or ignored out of fear of being shamed for reading it. Imho, what makes the best erotica, beside the author knowing their craft, is the author willingness to outsmart the limits they’ve been imposed, be it by the law and/or by pubic morality and also, it is at least as important, all the limitations they imposed on themselves. The desire to play with those limits.
Swesome answer, thanks so much.
My pleasure. I hope you will a space that suits your needs .
As a side note regarding the Fediverse/Lemmy/Piefed/etc. as a publishing space: be aware that you can create your own community (say, one dedicated to your type of erotica) but my remarks remain valid: you will need an instance (aka, the server on which lives your community) that is ok to host potentially offensive content (or worse). Or you can host your own instance (aka, the physical server on which your community lives) but then you need to be yourself, as a person, ok to face the potential legal risks of publishing offensive content (or worse).
Ignoring smut and the shitload crap that is being written just for making some money out of people feeling an irrepressible need to… scratch an itch (which is a legit business, don’t get me wrong it’s just not a quality product), erotica can be great literature. Sadly, a bit like poetry I’m almost tempted to say, most of the time erotica is frowned upon or ignored out of fear of being shamed for reading it. Imho, what makes the best erotica, beside the author knowing their craft, is the author willingness to outsmart the limits they’ve been imposed, be it by the law and/or by pubic morality and also, it is at least as important, all the limitations they imposed on themselves. The desire to play with those limits.