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Anyone else write or love to read historical erotica or romance? What do you love about it?
I'm a huge fan of history and the classics. But I'm also a perv, so I think the lack of sex, or the sexual subtext, in the classics I grew up reading made me especially fascinated by historical fiction that brings sex and sexuality into the main text. If that makes sense?
I especially enjoy Regency and Victorian erotica, for that reason, I think. There's something so hot about exploring the sex lives of Austen and Dickens era people because we never see that part of the character's lives in the fiction of the day. So it seems a bit taboo?
Also, I guess those eras have a "once upon a time" feel to them, because they're long enough ago that they're easily romanticized but not so long ago that they're inaccessible. Familiar and yet fantastic?
Are there other eras you prefer? What draws you to them as a reader or a writer?
I'm a huge fan of history and the classics. But I'm also a perv, so I think the lack of sex, or the sexual subtext, in the classics I grew up reading made me especially fascinated by historical fiction that brings sex and sexuality into the main text. If that makes sense?
I especially enjoy Regency and Victorian erotica, for that reason, I think. There's something so hot about exploring the sex lives of Austen and Dickens era people because we never see that part of the character's lives in the fiction of the day. So it seems a bit taboo?
Also, I guess those eras have a "once upon a time" feel to them, because they're long enough ago that they're easily romanticized but not so long ago that they're inaccessible. Familiar and yet fantastic?
Are there other eras you prefer? What draws you to them as a reader or a writer?