Life would’ve been hell of a lot more fun if it worked on hentai logic. Of course, grass being greener on the other side, people would’ve probably consumed anti-porn in such a universe. Like, about celibate nuns that actually stay celibate and nothing sexual ever happens to them. This’d be as over-the-top ridiculous as tentacle sex is to us.
(My taste is heavily slanted in favor of yaoi, but I am told the trend is only slightly weaker in straight porn.) An interesting feature of hentai logic is that some people (women and ukes, or in some works everyone) do not know if they want sex (and usually hold the false belief they do not), whereas their partners have perfect knowledge of their wishes. The connection can be universal, conditional on the active partner loving or lusting after the passive one, or the other way around.
It would be pleasant, for people who enjoy surprises, to really have such a thing as “surprise sex you didn’t know you wanted”. People who don’t can top, and people who don’t want that all the time can switch; two tops together produces the current situation and two bottoms together produces the mirrored version of the trope where both partners initiate sex they were initially reluctant to have because they magically sense their partner’s desire (though it requires ignorance about one’s preference, not false belief that I WOULD NEVER). Having your desires known to your partners is obviously necessary as a replacement[*] if any sex is going to happen; while some may enjoy the intimacy of having the connection depend on mutual feelings, it may be more convenient to have it be universal so that the knowledge is available at all times.
Also, no work would ever get done.
[*] Edit: Actually, one could also have a central authority that looks into the hearts and pants of everyone, and decrees “You two. Get it on.”.
Life would’ve been hell of a lot more fun if it worked on hentai logic. Of course, grass being greener on the other side, people would’ve probably consumed anti-porn in such a universe. Like, about celibate nuns that actually stay celibate and nothing sexual ever happens to them. This’d be as over-the-top ridiculous as tentacle sex is to us.
(My taste is heavily slanted in favor of yaoi, but I am told the trend is only slightly weaker in straight porn.) An interesting feature of hentai logic is that some people (women and ukes, or in some works everyone) do not know if they want sex (and usually hold the false belief they do not), whereas their partners have perfect knowledge of their wishes. The connection can be universal, conditional on the active partner loving or lusting after the passive one, or the other way around.
It would be pleasant, for people who enjoy surprises, to really have such a thing as “surprise sex you didn’t know you wanted”. People who don’t can top, and people who don’t want that all the time can switch; two tops together produces the current situation and two bottoms together produces the mirrored version of the trope where both partners initiate sex they were initially reluctant to have because they magically sense their partner’s desire (though it requires ignorance about one’s preference, not false belief that I WOULD NEVER). Having your desires known to your partners is obviously necessary as a replacement[*] if any sex is going to happen; while some may enjoy the intimacy of having the connection depend on mutual feelings, it may be more convenient to have it be universal so that the knowledge is available at all times.
Also, no work would ever get done.
[*] Edit: Actually, one could also have a central authority that looks into the hearts and pants of everyone, and decrees “You two. Get it on.”.
(Reasonable enough, you’d better forward this to Eliezer so that he can think through that possibility deeper and harder for his planned story)
I kept looking for the parent of this comment to figure out what the hell the context was.