Originally posted elsewhere, but it's a handy rant...
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I disagree. I think codes are a courtesy that have become twisted into some strange obligation by their pervasive use. A well written synopsis should provide enough information for someone to decide if he/she is interested in a story. The codes come into play not for people intersted in a story, which may reasonably be expected to contain elements unappealing to an individual, but for people who want to jerk off. Codes are essential to porn readers because they don't want to waste time looking for their favorite fetish and porn should be coded, just as adult bookstores lump all their cellophane by subject matter. Mom's coming home from bingo in half an hour, gotta get that fix quick!
But stories, real fiction regardless of erotic content, do not require codes, in my opinion, and the idea of coding every single element (as some people have suggested and demanded) is not only excessive and stupid, it's detrimental to the erotica genre as a whole. I've been accused of deliberately mis-coding stories and I'll happily admit it's true. I have no problems with using story codes to further my evil plans, since I am required by convention to use them for the time being. To the complainers, I can only say "It's my story, they're my codes. I own them...You don't like it, write your own story. There's a lot of words out there." Readers own nothing and the frightened reliance upon their good opinion is just a little annoying. Yes I crave it, Yes I love it, Yes I appreciate it to the very soles of my toes, but I'm not going to babysit anyone, nor will I compromise my own requirements on the alter of popularity. Codes, by their nature, induce us to do just that.
We can't "weight" the codes. You can't put a code in context. You can't justify a code. They just sit there, all of them equal, all of them in a pretty row and equal in proportion and weight.They're static and in that sense they can be misleading by their very existence. Codes are not stone fixtured guardians of all that is good and perfect in the world of online erotica, they're merely tools which have been elevated to Godhood like Golden Shovels that must be revered at all costs because to do otherwise would reduce our efforts to chaos.
I'm not against codes, they're great for porn and useful for erotica. I'm just saying they are not the happy horsepill that some people are trying to shove up our collective butts.
uh...I guess that's a good place to stop ranting.
The interracial thing? Kind of a waste of time. Use the synopsis, that's what it's there for. "Little Kyoko likes big black cocks, but her husband Paddy O'Toole is feeling left out...Until he meets, Tajahamatsaddaha, the new babysitter from Bombay!" If people can't figure the story out from that...Oh wait. Sorry. How will the search engine ever find it? Trapped again.
rache
I disagree with whatever Black Knight said...
