Erotica and the pen is about writing erotica and how as a writer you want to be preceved.

Erotica is one of the most difficult subjects to write. Good stories and poetry have sex violence and suspense. This article is on writing about sex without profanities.

When you write a story or a poem, where two people make love you have a choice about how it is written. Unless your readers are into profanities you risk loosing readers that are offended by profanities. The last thing a writer wants to do is ostracise their readers. It’s not the same as a humorous limerick like, "There once was a man from Nantucket." or a character in a novel saying, "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on." In humour or a limerick the readership expects profanity. In novels readers expect the bad guys to swear. However many readers expect the hero to be pure, even while making love.

We expect our heroes to say, "We made passionate love all night long." not, "I fucked the ass off her." A scum bag biker would say, "She sucked my cock until I came in her mouth and she swallowed my gizzum." Our hero would say, " The touch of her lips on my skin sent waves of pleasure through every ounce of my being, until I could contain my self no more."

As much as clinical terminology are not profanities they are not passionate. You can call a man's penis a phallus, a cock or you can call it his manhood. A writer could write, "He pleased me as he shoved his penis in my vagina." or a writer could say, "He pleasured me with every thrust in me." Here I have portrayed the same message with out mentioning the body parts involved. The only clinical term I have ever herd that retains its beauty and passion is breast. "Tears of joy ran down her face as she held her child to her breast." Or "She held his body to her breast as he lay sleeping."

When a writer writes a story, poem or any form of art, they must consider their readers and how they want there readers to perceive them. Do you want your readers to perceive you as a Gangster Rapper or a sensitive passionate writer? The choice is yours, pick one you can live with.