from an ace perspective it's less that it's icky or whatever and more like... Imagine you really don't give a shit about bread but every restaurant gives you breadsticks a la olive garden. It's not offending you, but it'd be refreshing to go somewhere and NOT get breadsticks - ThreadSky

onno.cool • 8 days ago

from an ace perspective it's less that it's icky or whatever and more like... Imagine you really don't give a shit about bread but every restaurant gives you breadsticks a la olive garden. It's not offending you, but it'd be refreshing to go somewhere and NOT get breadsticks

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robhanna.bsky.social•8 days ago

I hear you.

I don't unserstand, but I hear you.

hamiltwan.bsky.social•8 days ago

I donno, it seems like if non-ace people have sex in a narrative, that's still relevant, as a huge part of human socialization? I don't care about gambling personally, but I'm not offended if a character is in trouble for gambling debts.

hamiltwan.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm not saying you (or anyone) has to find them interesting, but it does ring a little bit like someone complaining that they don't like thing x, and therefore it's some kind of imposition that other people do like it (you don't seem to be, but the person originally quoted does).

onno.cool•8 days ago

So it's not even a dislike. Like literally we do not care! People tend to not believe that, so it gets taken as distaste, which then gets lumped in with weird puritans. I (and presumably the screenshotted folks) don't care that there's sex in books. It's not an imposition. It's just boring.

onno.cool•8 days ago

I personally can't think of a book I've read with a sex scene that felt shoehorned in (in contrast to plot-relevant boning down) from the past like...decade. Idk what genre they're reading tho, I'm mostly a nonfiction bitch

hamiltwan.bsky.social•8 days ago

I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, and I will also say that I almost never experience sex scenes and the ones that are there are usually important to the plot, or extremely briefly mentioned. That's what makes the "I just want a book without sex!" seem like wanting to ban sex scenes.

hamiltwan.bsky.social•8 days ago

Unless these people are reading romance novels (which I will say includes some fantasy), the odds of encountering a long enough sex scene that you have time to get bored are very low.
And if they are reading romance...I guess be specific about what you want?

onno.cool•8 days ago

like imo skill issue on their part, I find plenty to read without random sex scenes, but it really does come from a different place. It's not that breadsticks are bad and nobody should have them it's just that you're really more a nachos bitch

robhanna.bsky.social•8 days ago

Shrug.

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