The internet is full of photos and videos of jacked, hunky men sucking and fucking each other. This is, as we call it in the industry, porn. But long before the Lumière brothers shocked the world with their exploitation of the persistence of vision, folks had to get their kicks from an entirely different medium of pornography. That's right, believe it or not, people long ago actually MASTURBATED to BOOKS! From Petronius to Chaucer to Marqiuis de Sade, the libraries of antiquity of full of absolute smut. Of course, what with today's cock-sucking holograms and 10K ULTRA-HD cumshots, erotic literature has fallen out of fashion... but not here! Perhaps you too are among the anachronistic literati that still jerks it to ink and paper. If not, here's six reasons why you should rediscover erotic literature!

1. Porn, But Also Art

Erotic literature is essentially porn, but it's also art! Oftentimes, the creators behind the things we jerk off to put very little effort into the product beyond just making sure the guys are hot and hard. Writers of erotic literature are only limited by their imagination, which means their works can be just as sexy but also artistically stimulating!

2. It's about the journey, not the destination

With video porn, the focus tends to all be on the cumshot. You watch the video until you cum, the guys on screen cum, or ideally both cum at the same time. But with erotic literature, it's more about basking in the ambient levels of eroticism that are omnipresent even in the passages that aren't just stark depictions of sex. Of course, books can be just as a graphic and explicit as videos too! And with e-readers these days, you really only need one hand to turn a page! ;)

3. Do away with unrealistic beauty standards

Porn tends to give us unrealistic beauty standards. The guys always look perfectly toned and unobtainable beautiful. In books however, the language, though still vividly descriptive, relies on your own brain to conjure up images yourself. So if you're tired of everyone looking photoshopped, read a book and picture the men as you please!

5. Portrayals of healthy relationships

Video pornography is often lacking in plot and character development. Usually it's not much deeper than a couple archetypical hunks fucking after sharing an extremely terse conversation about sausage pizza or locker room esoterica. When you read a book, you really get to know the characters in a way that (albeit still fictitious) is much closer to a model of genuine human romance, thus arguably healthier for our overly stimulated, porn-addled brains!

6. Read a motherfucking book!

Even if every third word is "cock" or "cum", ultimately you're still reading a book, which not a lot of people do these days! Start with a book about gay sex, and who knows, next you might move on to Moby Dick! Porn is sexy, but being literate is even sexier!
September 20, 2021 — Andrew Christian
Tags: Listicles