Why are smut writers getting so much hate?

[Dajoe1234]

To be honest, it's insane the reactions you get from people when you tell them that you write smut, it made me quit for a while. So I decided to not tell anybody IRL about my smut writing habits. Are you guys/gals having the same reactions?

 

[Jamminrabbit]

I'm not getting any hate. Maybe the ones you're referring to are just especially unlucky. Or I'm just lucky.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

To be honest, it's insane the reactions you get from people when you tell them that you write smut, it made me quit for a while. So I decided to not tell anybody IRL about my smut writing habits. Are you guys/gals having the same reactions?

To be honest they deserve it. But unfortunately your over estimating the vastness of this hate. It’s a shame that pornographers don’t get more flak. Especially considering that their industry is based off victims of sex trafficking and psychological depravity.

 

[Agentt]

....you are talking irl dude, people will hate you for writing bloody fiction. Anything that doesn't earn millions is a waste for them
Also, it's smut so it's understandable. People tend to think you self inserted yourself there

 

[PancakesWitch]

im fairly sure smut writers get a lot of attention due to everybody being a horndog, maybe write better smut

 

[DarkeReises]

im fairly sure smut writers get a lot of attention due to everybody being a horndog, maybe write better smut

Write smut so good that nobody can tell it's smut.

 

[Dajoe1234]

Write smut so good that nobody can tell it's smut.

It's trash and yet it received 10x the views of a fantasy story I've put my soul into. I thought about the outline, the theme, the worldbuilding, took me 2 years to write and it gets beaten by a smut story that I took 2 weeks to write. But yeah, Imagine if I put the same efforts into my smut. XD

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

I think smut tends to be compared to depraved, crazy fanfiction since with all the fetishes an author wrote can be describe as....'not mentally prepared' for people, especially when web authors have a low reputation to the IRL people. Plus, with the fanfiction writers, especially those that write....'Shipping' taste gave us a low grade at the start, it isn't easy to gain a positive feedback when our rep is already that low. So hate is already common for us, not so for the other side.

It might be moreso on the western side but on the eastern side, it isn't so bad to compare.

But I don't know since I never took course on social class and I only have basic psychological class to pass college.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Depends on how you carry yourself. When you tell someone you write erotica, it could come off as either sexy or creepy. Personally, I don’t have any problem with it—quite proud, actually. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.

 

[Minx]

It's trash and yet it received 10x the views of a fantasy story I've put my soul into. I thought about the outline, the theme, the worldbuilding, took me 2 years to write and it gets beaten by a smut story that I took 2 weeks to write. But yeah, Imagine if I put the same efforts into my smut. XD

Smut do be selling like hotcakes

 

[Deleted member 87036]

....you are talking irl dude, people will hate you for writing bloody fiction.

People will hate you for anything and everything!

 

[AliceShiki]

I wouldn't hate anyone for writing erotic stuff, but it's a bit creepy to imagine hearing someone telling me about it offline tbh.

Like, I know some people online who wrote erotic stuff, and I already had cybersex with my ex-boyfriends, so like... Well, it's not something I will shame anyone for, but like... Why would you ever tell other people that you write erotic stuff? Like... Wtf?

I don't talk about my sexual preferences with my offline friends, I don't tell them that I had cybersex with my exes, and if I wrote erotic stuff, I wouldn't tell them about it either, like... How does this kind of topic even come up in conversation? I can't even imagine it in all honesty.

It's easier to come up in a forum where stuff like roleplays can happen or discussions about all sorts of things started by third parties and whatnot, but geez, I really can't imagine a situation where this kind of topic would come up offline.

 

[GDLiZy]

You may tell them when you're making enough money to write full time.

 

[TotallyHuman]

I wouldn't hate on you for that, but I will keep my distance from you irl. That's just life.

 

[MisterSyafiq]

the more attention people give, the more hates you can possibility get.

 

[NitroxDarks]

If you breathe, people will hate you for doing it. They just express it not that directly.

 

[dnftg]

To be honest, it's insane the reactions you get from people when you tell them that you write smut, it made me quit for a while. So I decided to not tell anybody IRL about my smut writing habits. Are you guys/gals having the same reactions?

I wonder why

 

[22ratsydna]

To be honest they deserve it. But unfortunately your over estimating the vastness of this hate. It’s a shame that pornographers don’t get more flak. Especially considering that their industry is based off victims of sex trafficking and psychological depravity.

What.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

I think smut tends to be compared to depraved, crazy fanfiction since with all the fetishes an author wrote can be describe as....'not mentally prepared' for people, especially when web authors have a low reputation to the IRL people. Plus, with the fanfiction writers, especially those that write....'Shipping' taste gave us a low grade at the start, it isn't easy to gain a positive feedback when our rep is already that low. So hate is already common for us, not so for the other side.

It might be moreso on the western side but on the eastern side, it isn't so bad to compare.

But I don't know since I never took course on social class and I only have basic psychological class to pass college.

Smut literally devolves into the same depravity that fanfics do, on a long time line

 

[JCountry]

The hate smut gets actually presents a rather interesting psychological phenomenon. That phenomenon is related largely to perception and cultural values. Its not that they hate smut, they just aren't allowed to 'like' it. Not publicly anyway.