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reviews_and_ramblings ([personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-12-12 02:41 pm

Little rant

Please, publishers (general but I have a clear name in mind...) if you release a story where a woman is having a lot of sex with two men, please, please, don't try to pass it as a M/M, please don't put it under the "gay/lesbian" genre... if you are really convinced that the gay romance or M/M romance is a passing fashion, and that the future is a menage between a woman and two men, so, be true to your claim, and use your "menage a trois or more" genre, and let the "poor" gay romance alone in their "reserve".

If you are wondering why I'm ranting, well, enough to say that I just read an unbelievable blurb tagged as M/M...

[identity profile] lee-rowan.livejournal.com 2008-12-13 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really care that much whether a story is m/m or f/f/, f/f/m, m/m/f, etc. so long as the characters wind up together for some better reason than "gawd, s/he's hawt." The quality of the writing, the believability, is what counts. Human beings with human motivations, that's fine.

I have no problem with the idea of polyamory, for someone else, but the logistics of it...! One partner is about all I can keep up with, even if I do appreciate teh pretteh boys. And the practical intrudes, again... whoever got stuck in the middle would have a tough time getting to the bathroom at 3 in the morning.

[identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com 2008-12-13 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
*laughs* Sod that - I'd just clamber! But I agree, there's nothing I like less than INSTANT SUE JUST ADD WATER.

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2008-12-13 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
You should read Big Enough for Five by Willa Okati (it refers to the bedroom)... they had only one bathroom, if I remember well, and there is a sequel with a sixth man! Elisa