Does this count as sexual immorality? [Spirituality & Religion]
You're not having sex because you're not married, you're not even bothered to sext with anybody but you write sex scenes.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
It might offend those who have nothing better to do than think themselves the arbiters of others' intimate love-lives and erotic tastes, and believe love-making immoral; but they don't have to read or hear steamy erotic scenes.
I don't like pornography, but I don't try to tell those who do, that it is "wrong" or "immoral" (provided it is legal and adult of course). I am not one of those prudes who so fear and dislike the human mating act they want everyone to deny it exists; but I very much doubt intercourse scenes in dramas are really necessary for any real dramatic rather than spurious shallow commercial, reasons.
So, no, not immoral, but anyone uncomfortable writing such material is best finding other ways to be creative; or at least trying to be less explicit and even, if I may dare use the "R" word, be more romantic.
I don't like pornography, but I don't try to tell those who do, that it is "wrong" or "immoral" (provided it is legal and adult of course). I am not one of those prudes who so fear and dislike the human mating act they want everyone to deny it exists; but I very much doubt intercourse scenes in dramas are really necessary for any real dramatic rather than spurious shallow commercial, reasons.
So, no, not immoral, but anyone uncomfortable writing such material is best finding other ways to be creative; or at least trying to be less explicit and even, if I may dare use the "R" word, be more romantic.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@karysma Oh, I think that a very fair point.
I think most people can handle watching or reading sex scenes, knowing they are merely part of works of fiction. They may be amused, offended, or irritated by it. They might shrug it off as a statement of the obvious; they might see it as a mere commercial gimmick.
Few are likely to be harmed by it and I suspect those who are attracted merely to pornography are not interested in plays or novels in which the steamy scenes are just extras to the narratives.
I was surprised to learn not long ago that D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, once so considered so shocking there was a failed legal attempt to prosecute its publishers, is now a set book in some upper-school English Literature syllabi!
Do you have to write such scenes though, if they make you uncomfortable?
I think most people can handle watching or reading sex scenes, knowing they are merely part of works of fiction. They may be amused, offended, or irritated by it. They might shrug it off as a statement of the obvious; they might see it as a mere commercial gimmick.
Few are likely to be harmed by it and I suspect those who are attracted merely to pornography are not interested in plays or novels in which the steamy scenes are just extras to the narratives.
I was surprised to learn not long ago that D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, once so considered so shocking there was a failed legal attempt to prosecute its publishers, is now a set book in some upper-school English Literature syllabi!
Do you have to write such scenes though, if they make you uncomfortable?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Lynda70 Yes - a question so risible by its ignorance that the case collapsed completely!
I once watched a TV documentary on this, I think some 20 years after the trial.
It presented a shortened drama version of the trial, in which the literary critics defending the novel came out with all sorts of fancy prose about its beauty, skill or authorship, and so forth. After the play, they were asked about their defence. They admitted that they felt it was not Lawrence's best work at all, but they had to praise it to defend the authors' and readers' rights.
I once watched a TV documentary on this, I think some 20 years after the trial.
It presented a shortened drama version of the trial, in which the literary critics defending the novel came out with all sorts of fancy prose about its beauty, skill or authorship, and so forth. After the play, they were asked about their defence. They admitted that they felt it was not Lawrence's best work at all, but they had to praise it to defend the authors' and readers' rights.
karysma · 36-40, F
@ArishMell I do have a choice. I'm a published writer but my work hasn't been getting the attention I needed and I was getting desperate but I'm completely over that. The Holy Spirit in me reminded me that I was created in the image of God and writing scenes like that would be pretending to be something I'm not.
ArishMell · 70-79, M