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kink_bingo this year and what interests me most about this bingo is the broad interpretation of 'kink'. Fanworks do not have to feature sex and can be G rated.
This excellent post gives some good ideas about how to put the focus on the prompted kink at the heart of the piece… in such a way that either the characters, or the fanwork, or the audience, or any combination of the above, are interested in/stimulated by/gratified by the kink in question.
It makes a distinction between 'erotic' and 'sexy'. Eroticism can be applied in a far wider context. A kink can often be about making strange or unusual connections between culture, body, and mind, the author says, and describes how eroticism can be sensual and/or intense. The sensual aspects are all about the body and the senses; the feel of a whip or the smell of essential oils.
Intensity is about making the erotic connection to an object or situation – 'fetish' is the word that comes to mind, though the term is not used atkink_bingo due to its troubled medicalized history. Intensity is more about the outer and symbolic rather the body. It's why a character gets turned on by a man in uniform or by shaving their legs – the meaning behind the object/action rather than merely the thing itself.
That's intensity: intensity of emotion and intensity of physical sensation. Your characters might experience intense pain, or intense pleasure, or intense interest, or intense disgust, or intense tingling…but what those have in common, and what tends to make them kinky, is the intensity itself.
What especially interested me about this post was how the author linked it to something most if not all of us can relate to; fannish experience.
known, in some fannish circles, as "having feels" or simply "FEEEEEEEELS!" – the rush of emotions and physical sensations too overwhelming and powerful to even be described or enumerated…Fannishness is its own kind of fetishism, of course, and is often made fun of in popular culture in the same way that kink is made fun of. Fans are too intense, we are told, too focused on a particular object of desire; we allow the things we should only like – not love – to fill the entire frame of our existence and make us feel.
The post looks at how to make a kink the focus of the work, to capture the arousal it engenders – again, not necessarily sexually, but in a stirring of the senses. It concludes that to give erotic focus is to draw our attention to that kink, and encourage us to feel something about it; encourage us to feel, encourage us to experience, simply because the locus of our attention has changed.
It harks back to emotional bareness as opposed to merely bodily nakedness. It means not every kink is sexual, and in exploring with my own asexuality, sensuality, and kinkiness, that's very important to me.
kink_bingo this year and what interests me most about this bingo is the broad interpretation of 'kink'. Fanworks do not have to feature sex and can be G rated. This excellent post gives some good ideas about how to put the focus on the prompted kink at the heart of the piece… in such a way that either the characters, or the fanwork, or the audience, or any combination of the above, are interested in/stimulated by/gratified by the kink in question.
It makes a distinction between 'erotic' and 'sexy'. Eroticism can be applied in a far wider context. A kink can often be about making strange or unusual connections between culture, body, and mind, the author says, and describes how eroticism can be sensual and/or intense. The sensual aspects are all about the body and the senses; the feel of a whip or the smell of essential oils.
Intensity is about making the erotic connection to an object or situation – 'fetish' is the word that comes to mind, though the term is not used at
kink_bingo due to its troubled medicalized history. Intensity is more about the outer and symbolic rather the body. It's why a character gets turned on by a man in uniform or by shaving their legs – the meaning behind the object/action rather than merely the thing itself.That's intensity: intensity of emotion and intensity of physical sensation. Your characters might experience intense pain, or intense pleasure, or intense interest, or intense disgust, or intense tingling…but what those have in common, and what tends to make them kinky, is the intensity itself.
What especially interested me about this post was how the author linked it to something most if not all of us can relate to; fannish experience.
known, in some fannish circles, as "having feels" or simply "FEEEEEEEELS!" – the rush of emotions and physical sensations too overwhelming and powerful to even be described or enumerated…Fannishness is its own kind of fetishism, of course, and is often made fun of in popular culture in the same way that kink is made fun of. Fans are too intense, we are told, too focused on a particular object of desire; we allow the things we should only like – not love – to fill the entire frame of our existence and make us feel.
The post looks at how to make a kink the focus of the work, to capture the arousal it engenders – again, not necessarily sexually, but in a stirring of the senses. It concludes that to give erotic focus is to draw our attention to that kink, and encourage us to feel something about it; encourage us to feel, encourage us to experience, simply because the locus of our attention has changed.
It harks back to emotional bareness as opposed to merely bodily nakedness. It means not every kink is sexual, and in exploring with my own asexuality, sensuality, and kinkiness, that's very important to me.
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