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♥️ It’s okay to write or read about sex and romance.
♥️ It’s okay to write or read about sex without romance.
♥️ It’s okay to write or read about romance without sex.
♥️ It’s okay to write or read about taboo topics of sex and romance.
♥️ It’s okay to write or read about topics of sex and romance that are illegal in some places in the world.
♥️ Writing about sex and romance does not make you a lesser author.
♥️ Sex and romance are not ‘lesser’ or less meaningful topics to write about than any other topic.
♥️ Writing about sex and romance is not inherently self-indulgent, and there is nothing wrong with it when it is self -indulgent.
♥️ Writing about sex and romance is meaningful, powerful, and artistic.
♥️ Writing about sex and romance is meaningful, powerful and artistic, even when other people call your work meaningless or cheap smut or pornography.
♥️ Keep writing about sex and romance.
I’m always amused by the “it’s illegal!” argument, because there’s countries where gay sex is illegal. And that was commonplace until fairly recently. Also, it happens sometimes that laws of that sort exist on paper without being enforced. So clearly, legality isn’t a good way to tell if something is ethical or not.
There’s also the fact that different countries have different definitions of what counts as incest (many don’t consider relationships between first cousins incestuous, for example) and many don’t prosecute incest at all. (I don’t feel like linking it rn but this is all in Wikipedia, btw. Something like legality of incest should bring it up). Even if we assume USA is the only country in the world, like this crowd seems to do, different states still have different laws. So legality is also a very confusing way to decide if something should be written or not.
(And of course, the same people who say this never have an issue with superhero movies or heist movies depicting illegal actions, but the hypocrisy goes without saying. Also they’re already close enough to bringing the Hays Code back and demanding all fictional criminals to be punished as it is so it’s probably best not to say anything.)
“Also, it happens sometimes that laws of that sort exist on paper without being enforced.” Wait, being gay can be illegal on paper but not in practice? Well, that’s good, at least.
The problem with laws that “aren’t enforced” is that they suddenly ARE enforced when a police officer wants a reason to harass or arrest you.
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