Cover art for "50 Shades of Ghraib".
Posted on 09/25/2015 12:22:03 PM PDT by pabianice
“Are real men that disappointing?”
FWIW, a few weeks back.. there was a thread on FR about female robots. A LOT of male freepers were all for the idea (they don’t talk back, can be programmed to keep silent etc). I guess the knife cuts both ways... possibly a lot of folks out there who couldn’t find or keep a good one and explore wild ideas like a robot mate or an alien lover?
Or they are 2’s on the scale.
With Science Fiction, you might have a story line where you fall in love with a gorgeous shape shifter. But once into the relationship, you find out to your horror, that the shape shifter is actually a fiendishly predatory male, and in a twist of irony, he is able to shape YOU to HIS needs.
Or it was tongue in cheek.
What, the fad on dinosaur porn books has run its’ course ??
thanks for posting. Sci Fi has gone off into some weird, weird tangents.
I’m not so sure all the shirtless guys are meant to be attractive t women, but whatever.
A lot of these are self-published. It seems that you can make a buck by self-publishing porn, whether its historical romance, alien hot sex romance, fantasy Middle Ages The King-raped-me romance, and I can’t think of any others at the moment.
So maybe it’s not that Sci Fi has gone off the rails so much as self-published authors trying to make money off porn?
Since they do their own covers there must be a site where you can purchase hot pics of pecs. I mean hot shots of guys with photoshopped great bursting pecs.
They never show the guy’s faces. Maybe it doesn’t matter to women who read this stuff. ‘The Faceless Sex Lord Of Cthalwho IV Ripped off my Spacesuit And Did Unmentionable Things to Me’.
That’s a subtitle. Anybody who wants it can have it. I have tons more.
He said pretty much the same thing: The publishers wanted more and more erotic and prurient cover art, more cleavage, bigger busts, etc.
Maybe there is something to all of the space-alien abductions.
The general name for the sub-genre is Paranormal Romance. Been around a long time. And Romance has been the #1 selling genre since the 80s, so apparently men have been disappointing for a very long time.
Yeah we need to get back to the old days when 75% of the top 100 had mostly nekkid women on the covers.
I have news for you. Most writers who actually make a living writing are self-published. Sure, there are plenty of traditionally published writers, but a successful self-published writer can make a lot more money than being under contract for peanuts per sale.
Even many writers who have a traditional deal are now hybrid writers and self-publish a lot of their own stuff.
And yes, erotica is one of the biggest themes of books now (the e-book revolution means that no one sees the cover you are reading in public, they just see your e-reader) and that means that every genre is flooded with erotica titles.
But with 50 Shades of Grey mainstreaming “Mommy porn”, even the big five are pumping out erotica lines and titles by the bushel. So it isn’t a “self-publishing” issue, it’s a consumer issue. Our society craves weird and kinky writing.
I remember a few that were pretty racy. My Grandmother sent me an Edgar Rice Burroughs book (At the Earth’s Core) and put a postage stamp over the naughty bits.
Cover art for "50 Shades of Ghraib".
It’s been around for a looooong time. Edgar Rice Burroughs first book in the John Carter series, A Princess of Mars, has the hero running around Mars with a voluptuous naked woman. Every cover for that book has her in a teeny bikini just to avoid being censored, but Burroughs clearly was living out a teen inspired fantasy in that book. And I’m sure the covers of those books caused a lot of young teen boys to become interested in reading.
They got me interested in the art of Frank Frazetta at least. Prurient cover art has a long tradition in genre. What’s really changed is that the audience is no longer 90% male, so we’re no longer the target audience for all the covers.
Alien romance. Maybe it’s illegal alien rape romance fantasy from Bernie Sanders.
Waiting for an a lover from another planet to be her Prince Charming is a little unrealistic, too.
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