Show Notes:
If I had a nickel for every time someone reduced the entirety of the romance genre to “smut,” I’d have enough money to be my own billionaire book boyfriend.
Adrie and Stitch dig into the TikTok discourse around "smut," "fairy porn," and romantasy — a conversation that starts with why Adrie hates the word smut and ends with a rigorous taxonomy of romance, erotic romance, erotica, and pornography. Along the way, they trace the through line from Anthony Comstock's 19th-century censorship crusade to contemporary age-verification legislation, purity culture in fandom, and why women reading for pleasure has always made someone, somewhere, deeply uncomfortable.
Topics: romance, erotic romance, erotica, pornography, romantasy, fantasy romance, dark romance, smut discourse, the Comstock Act, publishing censorship, age verification, KOSA, internet regulation, fandom purity culture, religious repression, women's literacy, feminist discourse, genre fiction
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Past Episodes:
- E24: Harlequin Renaissance
- E29: Heaving Bosoms
- E33: In Defense of Smut
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adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)
Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)
Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers
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