Tags: Porn. Drama. Romance. Drugs. Pedophillia. Gay. Straight. Youth.
In a sentance: Jimmy Pierson is the nicest man you can think of, volenteering, fostering and running a porn business from his own house.
In a paragraph: Every school kid wants money and acceptance. Jimmy Pierson, the cheerful old man with seven cats and three foster children is happy to give them everything they want. Along with several helpers, Pierson rounds up a whole host of school-age children and teenagers, and offers them their dreams in return for them appearing on his porn films. The only problem is when the school kid wants out.
I had it under erotic fiction but then I realised that'd sound like I was promoting this sort of thing :/ so yeah. Not sure what it should be under now.
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Sep 27, 2008 - 07 31
That depends on just how erotic erotic is. Just involving porn in the plot doesn't necessarily make it erotica unless you're going into vivid descriptions of said porn, after all. And even if you are, it also doesn't imply that you condone the actions taking place in the story. Many erotica writers, for instance, write rape fantasies, but shouldn't be confused as to condoning _real_ rape.
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Sep 28, 2008 - 04 57
Wow. Interesting plot you have there. As for genre... I don't know. I don't think labelling it as erotic fiction would make it seem like you were codoning that sort of behaviour. I suppose if you were worried about people's reactions, you could put up a disclaimer or something? Is the main theme of your novel sex? Because then it probably would fit under erotic fiction. My first thought when I read the plot was Literary Fiction, but that's just me...
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Oct 8, 2008 - 10 45
Well, if it has the theme, Erotic Gay Literature is becoming more popular. Unfortunately, a lot of the EGL I've read seems to condone child porn for some weird reason.
If it involves police, I'd have to say Erotic Suspense, as the cops try to hunt down the victims and the predator.
Sorry, I watch a lot of Law & Order.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 04 35
I agree with Evil Queen, it seems like it is condoning child pornography. If there is even a hint of that in the book it will never pass an editors desk and rightly so.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 10 00
Um, yikes! I wouldn't put the word "erotic" anywhere near that, or it would appear extremely disturbing. It's drama, and possibly crime drama, since it's centred around a shocking crime after all.
It could certainly be interesting psychological drama. The kids aren't being coerced as such, but they're also too young to really understand what they are getting into. As they start to understand, they're naturally going to have terrible confusion. The abuser will of course be able to say to them that they got into this voluntarily, so they'd get in trouble too if it all came out, stuff like that. Maybe some of them have persuaded other kids to join, so he'd say they'd get into toruble for that, control them that way.
Yes, it could definitely be interesting, but for goodness sake, don't label it erotic, you'd only be asking for trouble.