Do you know any differences in general if a story on here is written by a man or woman and if so which do you prefer?
I think men tend to be more descriptive of the female characters and vice versa, however, I actually enjoy most stories written by females more because they are also more descriptive of what is being done to the male characters and that lets me put my self in the fantasy easier.
It's natural for each of us to describe our perspective positions in a story best. The view of either sex can be interesting for me and also depends much on the scenario or mood of story. If the writer's motives (man or woman), are realistic and honest, I can get in to it most of the time for research's sake if nothing else.
I find more often than not that it's the subject/scenario/mood that is lacking interest from either sex.
I agree with you RumpleForeskin in that, men are more physical and women more emotional most of the time. As it is in real life which brings magic and insight to me.
I cannot agree though that either sex should overcome what they know for imagined knowledge. This makes it hard for me to be interested.
Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything.
For me the choice of terminology depends on the character I'm writing about and which word I think they would use, more than my own preferences. Although, personally I don't tend to get too purple with my prose so you will rarely find me using terms like love stick or man meat. Things like that just tend to make me giggle.
The only difference I've actually noticed sometimes, just sometimes, is that male writers tend to make their female characters sluttier than female writers. Men will be more degrading of women than female writers in general.
I don't like to generalize on this one. I think people have different styles of writing but I don't think it is dependent on their gender. I think the stereotypes of women writing more flowery, emotional love-stories is a bit dated. The most hardcore/raunchy porn out there today is actually made by female producers (a little known but surprising fact).
I think writing style is dependent on a lot of factors... personal experience and point of view are probably the greatest influencers.
On my first published story, someone commented, congratulating the lady who helped me out with some of the parts that were more.. let's say.. feminine. I'm not sure why, because I actually wrote it all by myself... should I have been flattered?
The difference between the male and the female writers? The female writers are much better looking. Need I say more.
Difficult to say that there is a consistent difference. However, some women writers have much greater stamina and much greater attention to fine detail than most male writers. In short, the sex lasts longer and it has a finer grain when it gets to body parts. If I were ever to use the terms "slow motion" or "close zoom" to describe erotic writing, I think it would be for women authors. I agree with Dancing Doll (as usual, of course) that women writers are just as likely to be way up there on the raunchiness scale.
Female writers can have multiple orgasms. Male writers can only dream about that.
I find the best stories (for me anyway) rely very little on physical descriptions of the main characters male or female.
Thanks to porn most of the descriptive narrative of a lot of sex writing is sadly limited to sight and sound: painfully lacking in the sensations of touch, smell, taste and emotion.
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Why not read some stories instead
NEW! Want a quick read for your coffee break? Why not try this... Flash Erotica: Scrubber Writing as Charmbrights, I have been taken for a female and comments such as "That's not what a man would feel/do/say" have arrived. As a 72-y-o male I think I know what my male characters would feel/do/say. On the other hand I was asked by one reader whether a particular novel was autobiographical - fair enough, except that it was set on a prison colony planet in the year 2123.
Who said readers are not stupid?
Generalizing about a persons writing style based on gender is tantamount to using their sexual preference, ethnic background, religious training, the state they live in, or their Avatar to judge their style. That is part of why I chose a non-gender specific Avatar in the first place.
But BS aside, I prefer "most" women's style of writing, when they chose to involve deeper emotional impact into the story. Case in point is "Pretending" by PennLady; the ending choked me up. But, I have found male authors with the same gift, James Patterson with "The Jester".
I hope to remain committed to judging the author by their story, not the story by the author.
I find the post here to be very interesting. A a male writer I find myself making the woman the focal point. I at least try to bring in emotion into the storyline as the fuel for the sex.
To me the discriptions of the act are critical but how it makes the players feel is equally so.
For myself I'd have to say that female writers seem to write from the female perspective and therefore captivate my interest.
Of course any talented writer be they male or female can produce a great story and lush has several men who are excellent.
I don't think the gender of the author makes a difference. I've seen men write beautiful love stories and women write hardcore stories and they're just as good as the other stories in the respective category
Hey'all slow down there a bit.
First we're not all straight-orientated here. And concerning gay stories,altough one may assume writer's gender is obvious(which is true in most cases) i've read elsewhere gay stuff written by both genders writers which is good enough to let you think the author though actually not gay or even of the physical gender involved personally endorsed the sexual orientation upon which his material based.
Second. When it comes to straight stories(mosty 1st person pov ones) most contain some body descriptive lines. And generally each gender writers tend to describe the other's physical appearance and their's feelings(no need to say a nine inches or more penis size almost undoubtly betray a three to five inches shorter one between the writer's legs). To avoid generalizing let's say this is more noticeable with young unexperienced writers.
Trying to sound cool. Too much work left.
In one word, it's emotion. With men, its always about size.