Sex

It was always a taboo subject. It was always something rude to talk about. Some of us even referred to it as "S-E-X" but the truth is there is a lot of sex in literature, any form of art in fact. A few months ago I watched the film Shame which was a bit meh but I liked what it tried to do. Well, I say "meh" but it was a good film, just not a great one, above average, it just tried to do some things and failed. For example the scene where the sister sings New York, New York where - as one reviewer put it - McQueen was "milking the pathos". But enough of that, this isn't a review of Shame. In fact what I was thinking about when I decided I'd write about sex on this blog is how much is going to be in the novel I keep banging on about - Cupid's Obsession. 


I've never been one of those people that has a novel he wants to write, I usually just wrote it. As I said before where I wrote an awful series of fantasy novels where each character was based on my best friends - Anthony, Carroll and Suller. However with Cupid's Obsession I want to be prepared for it and have a load of knowledge. It's not an intellectual book by any means, the research I'm doing is about love, pornography and literary horror - the genre I plan on delving into. 


The main character -as I've said before - is a porn actor and therefore there is a lot of sex. Not so much that it becomes pornographic but in the sense that it has a purpose. Joe Hill once said that when he writes his books - the fantastic Horns being among my favourite books - he had the thought "oh my God my grandmother is going to read this and I'm cursing and writing about sex" but then went on the say that you can't care. You can't. I wrote a story about an affair this year and the sex scene was read out in class. Uncomfortable? Yes. Necessary? Most definitely. 


Cupid's Obsession will have some graphic scenes in it, I've already begun a scene that will include the odd splash of necrophilia - why not? To an extent the idea is inspired by Lars Von Trier's Antichrist, a horrific but interesting film. Why horrific? Well I'll let you watch it. But what makes it inspiring is that it's about something and the horrible scenes have a purpose. That's why I look at the film and understand rather than see it as a film that is doing it just to shock - a bit like Saw (however I did love the first three.)


To help with the sex side of things - not the physical act more the mentality of acting in porn - I've been reading blogs by two porn actors Colby Keller and Erik Rhodes. Keller is, from what I can see, a very happy and interesting guy who doesn't seem to be defined by his career when Rhodes seems to be battling with how to lead a normal life. I could be completely wrong, of course, but this is the vibe I get from what I've read and seen. My character - named Judas Lovecraft - will be a tortured guy because he has a secret.


I'm not happy with the opening line and have been battling over it for a long time now. I await the day it will be changed or I'll be happy with it: "To get away I decided we go to the hotel."