Erotic literature, which is banned to varying degrees in countries around the world but is privately active, usually depicts sexual actions or sexual psychology. The main difference between erotic literature and pornography is that while pornography focuses on arousing the reader’s sexual desires, erotic literature usually carries other messages besides depicting sexual behavior. As a result, later generations can often tell from the content of erotic literature the era in which it was written or the social background of the time. For example, “Young Abin” was written during the late 1980s and early 1990s in Taiwan, when university students were more open to sex and more adventurous due to the beginning of social affluence and the influence of China’s sexual liberation. Another example: Hong Kong’s online erotic novel “Yacht Spring” and the serialized “Central Trotskyist” in Apple Daily both show the last century mentality of Hong Kong in the 1990s before the handover of sovereignty as well as the realistic mentality of “not caring about the end of time, only caring about what you have”.
Erotic literature is not necessarily in the genre of fiction, but also in the genre of poetry, lyrics and other rhyming texts. Some of the rhyming works regarded as classics also have some sexual innuendos and descriptions, such as some chapters of the Classic of Poetry – National Winds, some Tang poems, Song lyrics, etc., in addition to the erotic content has a high literary and artistic value.
1. Publication and collection of works
Many modern erotic literature, because of the anonymity of the authors and the legal problems, many articles are collected and distributed in the United States and other places where there are no special legal problems. However, due to various factors, these collection sites have been reincarnating, with old sites disappearing and new ones springing up. In the P2P world, articles can also be found on eMule or BitTorrent.
HotSite Webworld: a hub for many articles that disappeared when it closed due to financial and other issues.
Peachy: collect many old articles.
Sea of Love Full Episodes: articles collected and organized by unknown webmasters from websites with no specific download sites.
Yuan Yuan: since 1998 to provide BBS-style literature version, when the most popular erotic literature distribution center, then renamed fresh network and separation of erotic literature version and political version, to provide erotic book library, 2001 erotic literature version was closed. The back launched a new forum “Yuan Yuan Library public beta” is said to be the old Yuan Yuan open I am not sure, the resource is quite a lot, but now can not be logged on.
Wind and Moon Continent: Founded in 2002 by former moderator “Bitch with a Jar”, the site provides a simple interface, insists on non-commercialization, does not provide a bookstore, and advocates the “moderator dictatorship, the author’s biggest” operational policy to protect the rights and interests of the site and authors. The site was closed in March, 2006, but was reopened at the end of July, 2006. After the reopening of the site, many articles had to be paid in forum coins in order to be viewed, so many readers who only read the articles but did not reply to them were discouraged from doing so. 2009 Wind and Moon announced that the forums were undergoing renovation and were reopened in the middle of the year, but in addition to restricting the time of registration, it also added the restriction of “not registering and not being able to enter the forums”. The wind and moon continent is now reopened, but the information is only November 2009 to the present August 2010, before the information has not existed, the same also limits the registration, and then search engine on the forum can still be searched.
Naked Lamb: So far it’s up and running, with registration re-opened. But new users must sign in for seven days to slowly navigate the forums, except for posting an original text that gets through.
Bunshinkaku (literally carved dragon): overall messy, but a place that has always been there.
2. Literary criticism
And with works comes literary criticism. Never Chaos published an annual summary every year from 1999 until 2003.
In addition, the netizen Zuo Hu has also published Alcatraz in the form of a monthly newsletter since July 2002, which includes not only reviews of erotic literature, but also thematic studies and the introduction of the latest publications. There were six issues of Alcatraz, the last of which was published on January 3, 2002.
The Lamb Forum has also had a literary criticism program called “Pipa Gobbler”.
3. Anecdotes
Liang Shiqiu’s book, “Nostalgia for Mr. Hu Shih,” a sequel to his book “Literary and Historical Pastime Records,” reads, “We all gathered at Mr. Hu’s house, and Xu Zhimo clutched a large, thick, hardcovered book, a German-language erotic book, with lavish illustrations and text, which caused a group of people to scramble to look at it.”
Li Hongyan, “Qian Zhongshu and the Modern Scholars”, contains Qian Zhongshu’s list of forty or so light yellow books in English for Wu Shuyi. Wu Mi’s Diary” recorded that when Chen Yin Ke was studying in Paris, he used to watch men and women having sex through the wall, “men having sex with men, women having sex with women, and human beings having sex with dogs, exhausting the appearance. Every time I watched, I needed three francs of money.”
4. Literature
ancient China
Mainland China
Taiwanese
fact
Huang Yi novel series, although called martial arts, but his novels always through a word of color.
Japanese
olden times
The Lustful Generation
“The Lustful Generation
modernity
Paradise Lost, Junichi Watanabe.
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