{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66f706c02750688fd03c72b5/6a7a88195a90490c3416adc4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"E76: What’s in a Name - Romance, Erotica, Fairy Porn, and Smut","description":"<p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>If I had a nickel for every time someone reduced the entirety of the romance genre to “smut,” I’d have enough money to be my own billionaire book boyfriend.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Adrie and Stitch dig into the TikTok discourse around \"smut,\" \"fairy porn,\" and romantasy — a conversation that starts with why Adrie hates the word smut and ends with a rigorous taxonomy of romance, erotic romance, erotica, and pornography. Along the way, they trace the through line from Anthony Comstock's 19th-century censorship crusade to contemporary age-verification legislation, purity culture in fandom, and why women reading for pleasure has always made someone, somewhere, deeply uncomfortable.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Topics:</strong> romance, erotic romance, erotica, pornography, romantasy, fantasy romance, dark romance, smut discourse, the Comstock Act, publishing censorship, age verification, KOSA, internet regulation, fandom purity culture, religious repression, women's literacy, feminist discourse, genre fiction</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reading Recommendations:&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Fiction:</strong></p><ul><li>A Touch of Taboo series by Katee Robert</li><li>Sinner by Sierra Simone</li><li>Father by Loki Renard</li><li>Guarded by the Snake by Layla Fae</li><li>Training the Receptionist by Juniper Bell</li><li>The Bachelor Machine by M Christian</li><li>THE GODWICKS by Tiffany Reisz</li><li>The Scheming Crown Prince’s Wicket Consort by Subaru Kayano&nbsp;</li><li>We Can’t Do Just Plain Love by Mafuyu Fukita</li><li><a href=\"https://www.dlsite.com/girls/work/=/product_id/RJ01144611.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nao-chan NTR ~The Person I Fell in Love With Is My Childhood Friend's Father~ by Yatomomin</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.dlsite.com/girls/work/=/product_id/RJ01302086.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Cold-Blooded Captain's Sadistic Love</a> (audio)</li><li><a href=\"https://www.dlsite.com/girls/work/=/product_id/RJ01054957.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Merciless Perfect Man I Started Dating Turned Out To Be An Infatuated Closet Pervert</a> (audio)</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Non-Fiction:</strong></p><ul><li>Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible by Linda Williams</li><li>Screening Sex by Linda Williams</li><li>Reading the Romance by Janice Radway</li><li>The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault</li><li><a href=\"https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Uses of the Erotic</a> by Audre Lorde (part of Sister, Outsider)</li><li><a href=\"https://www.riengray.com/blog/the-perpetual-disappointment-of-if-only-eroticism\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Perpetual Disappointment of “If Only” Eroticism</a> by Rien Gray</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Past Episodes:</strong></p><ul><li>E24: Harlequin Renaissance</li><li>E29: Heaving Bosoms</li><li>E33: In Defense of Smut</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Follow &amp; Support:</strong></p><p>Follow us on <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pagesandprejudicepod?igsh=YnlpbGRvYjdzNTg5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a>.</p><p>Send inquiries to <a href=\"mailto:pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com</a>.</p><p>Buy merch on <a href=\"https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Threadless</a> or<a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> become a Patron</a> to support the show!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Hosted by:</strong></p><p>adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, &amp; tiktok)</p><p>Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Music: </strong><a href=\"https://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/holy-moly\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠</strong></a><strong> by Shane Ivers</strong></p>","author_name":"Adrie Rose, Stitch"}