Nanaea

Not so much. Mad?

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Tear

L: Loser!

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I am awake. I am here. I am off to write a bit that I came up with for a new plot bunny last night, while lying in bed, before it totally escapes my brain.

Have you seen the website Beautiful Agony?

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I am a fan of RenFests.

D: Don't touch me!

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So do I. I really haven't started exploring Opera's yet, but I plan to. Any suggestions where to start? How about for the kiddies?

Does Once More With Feeling (BtVS) count? Grease The King and I Phantom of the Opera Moulin Rouge

Hick

South

Minnie Driver

Guilty, guilty, guilty! G/NG: Needs a vacation?

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Sacagawea

I can appreciate that, Agaib. I'm currently working on a story that is heavily tied to the phases of the moon, so I figured out what months/year(s) the story took place during and then searched for the dates of the full and new moon phases during that time frame.

GAH! My eyes! My eyes! Quick! Where's the brain bleach?

I can't say that visuals don't affect me, because they do - quite a bit actually. But then again, so does reading about, or just plain fantasizing about, sex. I guess I'm lucky that way. I stumbled across my step-father's stash of Playboy magazines (in his home office) when I was about eight years old. I went in there and looked at them whenever I could sneak in and not get caught. I showed them to at least one of my friends and we giggled over them. The only other exposure to anything sexual came from my mother's 'romance' novels (which I more appropriately call 'smut' novels), and her addiction to Cosmo magazine, which she always left lying around the house. My first video exposure was movies like Risky Business (the train scene, anyone?) and Clan of the Cave Bear (the scene where Broud takes Ayla for the first time - must have watched that like 15 times in a row ). When I was a freshman in high school I got invited over by a couple of male friends after school one day. When I got there they were watching porn - it was my first real exposure. We sat around an laughed at it. Then one of them hit on me and I took that as my cue to leave. A year or so later I started babysitting for a couple that had a bunch of 'adult' channels. As soon as the kids were in bed, I'd turn the T.V. on and watch porn until I heard them pull into the driveway. Babysitting also exposed me to my first homemade porn movie. Thankfully, it was a friends regular gig - not mine - so I never had to see the couple again. By the time I was a senior I was reading more and more of my mother's novels. Skye O'Malley is forever burned into my memory. Incest, rape, sodomy.... Apparently there are sequels, I guess I'll have to re-read it at some point. Around that same time I discovered what I guess you could call 'soft porn' flicks; White Castle, Wild Orchid, The Kama Sutra and The Lover. Actually, The Lover, both the movie and the original books (The Lover and The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras), is a favorite of mine. In my early 20's I discovered erotica. I started collecting the three volume series; Erotica: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature, along with a few others (Anais Nin, most notably). I also got into reading Anne Rice's erotica about the same time. A few years latter I discovered the joy of graphic novels (thanks to newsgroups). There was one in particular, centered on a woman of course, that was heavy on the BDSM, that I adored. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of it. I think it was the main character's name.... Anyway, what was the question again? Oh, yes. I think my point is that I discovered the wonderful world of porn/erotica all on my own, in my own time. Perhaps it because my mother didn't actively hide her smut from me - who knows. But would I go out of my way to give my children porn? No. Not even when they turn eighteen. And honestly, I don't know any of my friends, male or female, who were given it either.

I am saying goodnight as well. *waves* I am off to play tooth fairy.

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I am sure it will all work out soon.