First off, I would like to thank the posters on the Erotica forum for suggesting this being to more appropriate forum for this question/discussion and not flaming me to where I am a smoking pile of ashes! 
This is a question I have often pondered and wonder how many professional authors that have found success may fall under this spectrum. I would really be interested in the opinions and feedback of the AW community on this. What would you all think or how would you react if it became known that a well known professional author (fiction, SFF, etc.) previously/currently dabble into the writing of sex stories? I know there are romance/erotica novelists here and mean no disrespect. I am simply pondering authors who've possibly found success in genres outside of this but have written erotica, porn, and so on on the side in secret or under different pen names.
To be truthful as far as my feelings, I don't think it would make that much of a difference. Erotic fiction is one of the genres that I will admit that I have read and personally don't find it distasteful (there are still forbidden lines though, I agree) because I believe this is a very sexually charged culture we live in to begin with. Naturally the Bible-nuts will beat their war drums of judgment and host yet more book burnings of said author. I am Christian myself but think their message of intolerance, denial, and smothering of sexuality is the wrong approach.
But what do you all personally think? Would you look down in disdain on that author? Support them? Be indifferent? Would you expect/demand an explanation from author if it were true or not and why? Would some answer be acceptable while others would not be?
Is there a line to be drawn between erotica as more acceptable than what is deemed porn?
While understanding the desire to not really want the public to know, should that author feel nervous or ashamed if they have done so?
Curious to see what this writers community thinks.
This is a question I have often pondered and wonder how many professional authors that have found success may fall under this spectrum. I would really be interested in the opinions and feedback of the AW community on this. What would you all think or how would you react if it became known that a well known professional author (fiction, SFF, etc.) previously/currently dabble into the writing of sex stories? I know there are romance/erotica novelists here and mean no disrespect. I am simply pondering authors who've possibly found success in genres outside of this but have written erotica, porn, and so on on the side in secret or under different pen names.
To be truthful as far as my feelings, I don't think it would make that much of a difference. Erotic fiction is one of the genres that I will admit that I have read and personally don't find it distasteful (there are still forbidden lines though, I agree) because I believe this is a very sexually charged culture we live in to begin with. Naturally the Bible-nuts will beat their war drums of judgment and host yet more book burnings of said author. I am Christian myself but think their message of intolerance, denial, and smothering of sexuality is the wrong approach.
But what do you all personally think? Would you look down in disdain on that author? Support them? Be indifferent? Would you expect/demand an explanation from author if it were true or not and why? Would some answer be acceptable while others would not be?
Is there a line to be drawn between erotica as more acceptable than what is deemed porn?
While understanding the desire to not really want the public to know, should that author feel nervous or ashamed if they have done so?
Curious to see what this writers community thinks.
Used to be hard core back in 2005, I mean freshly twenty-four years old, wanted to try something different after being so romantic since I started writing novels at 18, and I found myself taking it way too far, so I toned it down. Now, it's something I can't avoid because almost everyone has sex, but I always tone it down and make it gray instead of all white or all black. I just don't want to make people vomit. That being said, I...whatever.
