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[erastes]

Here's a LOVELY submission call - NOT. From “Whispers” – part of Scarlet publishing.

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“Entries that include m/m, f/f, bondage, rape, or bestiality will not be considered and will be returned to the author. All genres of romance will be accepted”

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Erastes looks gobsmacked.

Interpretation: -

1. m/m or f/f cannot be romance, not even any kind of genre romance under any circumstances.

2. Everyone knows that m/m and f/f is synonymous with bondage rape and bestiality.

3. Which means that all gays and lesbians are perverts, sexual predators and completely sick.

4. ICK!

I can’t tell you how sick I am of this attitude. I note that their submissions page is slightly more “explanatory” “We are not seeking m/m or f/f romances at this time”

I wonder if they amended that page to read that AFTER the yahoo group where the call I’ve quoted from was posted, exploded? All I know is that I will not be advertising their site on _literotica_!

*stumps off disgusted*

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of the attitude toward homosexuality I saw at my high schools and college in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gays couldn't actually LOVE, because, well, they were gays. They were just in it for the sex.

(There were no comments about the ability of lesbians to love, because lesbians, we were firmly told, did not exist. The concept of lesbianism was just a twisted and perverse notion that detractors of talented women had used to malign them.)

Sad to see that this publisher has the same caught-in-a-1950s-time-warp mentality as the administration of the high school from which I graduated. I would have liked to think that knowledge, understanding and tolerance had progressed somewhat since those days. Apparently not.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I really can't blame gay men for seeming like they were shag bunnies because - really? - all that repression suddenly let loose? But I hate the fact that everyone immediately things gay=sex. Yes, there are gay clubs where everyone has sex with everyone (if they want) but hells bells there are (and have been) het clubs like that for donkey's years, its just that they've never been interesting enough to catch anyone's eye. "clearly" as Capn Jack says "you've never been to Singapore"