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From: Mat <mmtwassel@gmail.com>
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Subject: {ASSD} Splattering and Plugging
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:44:16 -0800
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Splattering and Plugging
I was reading a hot story by Cassie Exline and J.
Troy Seate in this week's Ruthie's Club ("Sticky
Sex Notes"), and one of the sex scenes actually
made me think. (I know... an odd thing to happen
during a hot sex scene.)
...his cock exploded like a starburst,
gushing forth with love juice that came
in throbbing waves of delirium.
His first volley fired across her bow
and scored a direct hit on the
underside of her right tit. He fired a
second shot that wasn't dead center on
the left, but close enough in the heat
of passion. A third shot filled her
navel, becoming a natural reservoir for
his issue. Three more squirts dribbled
harmlessly above her thatch.
Molly sighed with satisfaction as she
wiped his semen from the bottoms of her
breasts and licked her palms. She
exhaled a long and satisfying moan. She
liked him inside all of her openings,
where his cock was safe and warm, but
she also liked his milky juices on her
body. She would have gladly swum in a
river of his come...
Do women really like guys splattering their stuff
all over their face, breasts, and belly? Do guys
really find that a turn-on?
I wouldn't say it's a complete turn off for me, but
I know I much prefer coming inside my love. Nothing
can be more satisfying. I have to believe that
most men are wired this way. And I have to wonder
whether women don't like it better, too. Can
getting semen in one's eyes and hair be all that
exciting? I guess if they're doing it because she
thinks her guy likes it... But even if he did like
it, would he want to do it if he knew his honey
didn't? Could it be a gift of the magi sort of
thing?
Speaking of Ruthie's Club, yesterday I posted a
story of mine ("Getting There") in StoriesOnLine.
At the end, in the author's notes section, I added
a line that an illustrated version of this story
had appeared in Ruthie's Club about a year ago. I
was disappointed to see that when the story
appeared, the author's note had been edited out. I
asked Lazeez about it, and he said he doesn't allow
advertising. I can understand not allowing blatant
ads that have nothing to do with the story, but it
seems to me that a line indicating where the story
had appeared and informing the readers about
illustrations should be permissible. Stories in
anthologies usually have similar credits. ("Getting
There" first appeared in the New Yorker in slightly
different form.) Of course Lazeez has every right
to make the rules for his story site. I'd think he'd
want to give his readers the chance to read
Ruthie's Club stories. Then again, judging from
the ratings I get, maybe not. And maybe my stories
are in fact a sort of negative ad for Ruthie's
Club.
Speaking of SOL and ratings, I was also interested
to discover that some of their average scores are
carried to two decimal places, while others are
truncated. I'm not a fan of average scores when it
comes to stories, but this practice seems bizarre.
One story of mine on SOL had four appeal ratings:
9,9,9 and 8. The SOL average showed a value of 8.
Lazeez explained that he truncates, but he didn't
say why. A story might get 99 perfect tens, but if
it gets one nine, the average would show up as 9.
I can't understand that.
But as I said, I don't understand these averages.
A story which readers either loved or hated might
get five ratings of 1 and five ratings of 10. The
average comes out 5. But another story might get
ten ratings of 5 - giving it the same average
score - everyone thought that story was mediocre.
That's really misleading to both the readers and
the author. The fact is that I'd rather read a
story that got the five ones and the five tens than
a story that got all eights. And as an author I'd
rather my story was of the love it or hate it
variety than of the run of the mill variety. (Not
that I guess any of this should make much
difference when you consider that only about
2% of readers vote.)
From a reader's perspective, what SOL really should
do is implement a recommendation system. Readers
could simply tick an input box that says, "I
strongly recommend this story." SOL could then show
readers who ticked that box other recommendations
by readers who also liked that story. It could be
simple and somewhat random, or it could be fully
featured, with, for example, the ability to search
for stories recommended by at least x number of
readers who liked a particular story, or a
particular group of stories. But in its simplest form,
it would be like Amazon.com telling you that
people who bought X also bought Y and Z.
--Mat