It's almost like people who watch so much "vanilla" porn that they get bored by it and start searching out weirder and weirder kinks.
I enjoy reading just about anything (I'm reading the sequel to Bird Box right now) but lately I've been reading or adding to my TBR list, books that I'm seeing people suggest on Reddit based on the "Oh my God!" factor. Books that push extremes and come with a laundry list of "trigger warnings." I've never found literature like this to be offensive and have read rather good books that push or defy boundaries of what's socially acceptable but that I would not recommend to anyone lest they question my morals based on said suggestions.
I'm not a deviant or anything and certainly don't entertain the prospect of enacting any of the things I read (Cannibalism just isn't for me) 😉 I just wonder if I'm going to reach some point where I don't feel content reading "off the shelf" literature.
Anyone else here enjoy a healthy balance of "normal" and "deviant" reading?
In case you're curious, I'm not talking anything HORRIBLE. Books like :
Hell by John Lindensmith "Raw. Shocking. Provocative. Uncensored. Read the controversial novel about the dark underbelly of high school! WARNING: Not for the squeamish or light of heart. Contains material that may offend. "
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata " I really loved it, but it’s so fucked up, I wouldn’t recommend it to most people." "Enjoy the ride! Best to go in not knowing anything. Just know there are tons of triggers, so if you’re sensitive… beware!"
Right now I'm considering The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Weiss "Weiss isn’t exactly subtle in his depictions of interspecies sexuality" <– cockroach/human "…downright gruesome, and nearly places the proceedings in splatterpunk territory"
by eaglesong3
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>It’s almost like people who watch so much “vanilla” porn that they get bored by it and start searching out weirder and weirder kinks.
You don’t know what that’s like.
You found a genre/topic that interests you, it’s not that deep.
I’m a big Splatterpunk fan myself. Joe Lansdale’s The Night Runners being a great example. Honorable mention to his Drive-In trilogy, too.
Death’s Head Press is publishing a line of “Splatter Westerns” as well. Violent stories with supernatural elements. Some are hit and miss, but they’re fun and I like the violence.
Honorable mention to Jack Ketchum’s “Girl Next Door” as a very fucked up and unsettling story based on real life events.
Embrace the deviance!
You should read 120 Days of Sodom (somewhat joking).