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And not just romance in the mainstream Harlequin mode -- there's huge amounts of basically text porn there which shows up often in searches for something else. I didn't know this was still being written -- I thought film and Internet video had killed off the "dirty book" decades ago.


These are called smut now and most of the readerbase is female. I believe it's often regarded a more "socially-aligned"/less hardcore porn substitute.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Smut


if anything internet made textual dirty stories explode as well.

It's just a different target audience. Especially women don't like the highly visual stuff. They tend to favor a relaxing text.


How did you miss Fifty Shades of Grey?




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