Bondage, Domination, Submission, Master, Slave, Sadism, Masochism. There's a lot of room for a wide variety of stories in this area, and a lot of authors - many of them relatively unskilled, have put a lot of fantasies to pen over the years. Many of those have been quite dark, some even gruesome. My earlier work was certainly on the darker side, with a lot more non-consensual stories. But I think I can say, looking back on well over 200 novels written under JJ Argus and other pseudonyms, that while many women were hurt, none were ever harmed. No woman or girl, even in my earlier stories, ever suffered any sort of punishment that would have required medical treatment. And certainly, none ever died. The only people who have ever died in my books tend to be the ones who inflicted cruelty upon those young women and girls.
An editor passed along a letter to me a few years back from a female reader. It was to him not me, commenting on his two best-selling authors. Argus, she said, clearly loves women, while the other author, clearly despised them. And while I can't speak for that other writer, I can say for a certainty that she was quite right about me.
Hello Argus,
ReplyDeleteI downloaded one of your books yesterday, The Barbarian's Toy, and I have not finished it yet but in the beginning of the story I was convinced you were a female. Now that I am half way through the tale, I know you are a man. I must say you write very well, your descriptions are right on however you lack a good storyline and border on pure pornography. Just some advice--Sex is like a piece of chocolate the first bite is very delicious but if you sit down and devour the entire bag you feel sick and it no longer holds appeal. I am a woman and maybe men might feel different but I think if you want to widen your audience you will see what I am trying to convey to you. You have great potential for writing good erotica, And What is your motive for writing?
Well, Barbarian's Toy was pretty close to pure porn, to be honest. It was one of my earlier books written for a publisher on 42nd street who sold them through mail-order and at the outlets which used to fill Times Square. I've edited it somewhat, but yeah, the story, as such, IS her experience, her weekend fantasy come to life - not quite as she'd expected it. And you're correct in the difference between writing erotica for men and women - though that's a generality, of course. I wrote a book once for Chimera called, I believe, The Innocent, which was certainly for males, but in which there was no real sex up until at least halfway through the book. I liked writing it, liked the tease, but my previous editors would never have tolerated that. When I have the time, I like to take more time. My longer books demonstrate that more. As to my motive, well, to make money, and to entertain. I told a friend once that, given the number of books I've sold I could reliably claim to have give more than a million people orgasms. :-)
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