A Passion Worth Pursuing (Extasy Press), a light-hearted erotic travelogue by A. L. Means, is on the road - the digital highway, that is - October 18th to 25th. Silver Dagger is organizing a blog tour. So please check it out, and if you have a blog and inclined to join the trip Maia at Silver Dagger will be glad to find a space for you.
Basic Writes
Stories and reflections in the erotica genre
Monday, October 7, 2024
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
The End Of Fiction As We Know It?
The state of Arizona recently passed a law making it a felony to possess sex
dolls modeled on children. Protecting minors from sexual predation is, of
course, essential to the values of most of us. But the implications of this law
are worth more consideration than they appear to have received from the state
legislature or governor.
At a time when it’s hard to keep pace with
technology—hard even to know what to believe about the latest revelations, the
interface between reality and imagination is increasingly blurred. For
generations, humans have been free to use their imaginations without much fear
of penalty, safe from consequences unless they acted upon their inner visions.
In the case of fiction, our minds have wandered without restraint into a world
of pretend. Suppose I were a warrior or an ancient goddess or even a wronged
nobody. How I would punish those opposed to me. As a child I cheerfully gunned
down a legion of baddies in my playtime without reproof. And as an adult, how
many times have I visualized what I would do to this or that screen or literary
villain.
But what if a synthetic facsimile of that bully or that femme fatale
takes tangible form? Are they things or are they something more? Can I smash
them to pieces or molest them as I would any other possession or, as with the
child sex dolls, are there legal and moral considerations? Could it be that
there are psychological ramifications for human aggressors willing to assault an
entity that looks and acts exactly like a human but isn’t?
Of course, we are
already familiar with surrogates depicted on various screens, whether human
actors or computer concocted entities. But technology will surely give us much
more tactile power at some future date to star in our own private dramas in
which androids or holograms or some other creation will be summoned by a human,
rather like a genie of old, and used or abused as that human sees fit. Who will
protect the child dolls then?
As a writer of fiction currently working on a
story about androids, I think we are entering legal and communal territory we
cannot yet fully appreciate. My fictitious androids are adult in appearance, and
submit themselves to whatever uses their human companions dream up. But will
that be an innocent enough viewpoint in the future? Will AI hit back at robot
abusers? Will rights activists find a new cause in fembotphilia or fembotphobia?
Will human moral distaste prevail? Or ultimately, will the courts have to decide
what, in this changing world, can be safely transferred from imagination to an
increasingly hard-to-define reality?
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
A Passion Worth Pursuing, eXtasy Books
Two vacationers go missing in an island boating incident. But, wait, there was a third, whose fate is not yet known. Was there foul play? Their friends set out to discover the truth. It’s not what they expected—but then, on an island like this, the truth never is.
When two vacationers are reported missing in a sailing accident at a Mediterranean island, their four friends back in London decide to investigate.
Questions begin with the fact that there were originally three vacationers—Reynard, Klara and Anton. So which two are missing? Was it a tragic drowning or something sinister?
As told by the unnamed fourth member of the expedition, this is a light-hearted and amorous odyssey featuring friends Roderick, Greta, and Diane as they go in search of answers. Each has theories about what happened, drawn from past romantic attachments with the missing and fond reminiscing.
Their voyage of discovery leads to island exploration and a climactic bacchanal in an old fortress. Could jealousy be a motive in the disappearance, as Roderick suspects? Has Anton, the youthful initiate into romance, rejected the advances of his two more experienced companions? Or does the island have still more to reveal?
Available from eXtasy Books, Amazon and other sites:
https://www.extasybooks.com/a-passion-worth-pursuing?search=A%20Passion%20Worth%20Pursuing&category_id=0
https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Worth-Pursuing-L-Means-ebook/dp/B08T8PSLDB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Passion+Worth+Pursuing+A.L.Means&qid=1642716066&sr=8-1
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Friday, October 23, 2020
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Basic Writes: The River's Embrace - an erotic romance with shade...
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