{"id":32,"date":"2009-02-23T19:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.wordpress.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-02-23T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:44:38","slug":"a-categorical-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/a-categorical-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"A Categorical Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a little town\u00a0in South Carolina that had a drive-in theater.\u00a0 But, mind you, not a regular drive-in.\u00a0 This one was special.\u00a0 When my mother and my aunt drove\u00a0in, my cousin and I\u00a0were hidden under blankets in the back seat.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because it showed <em>those<\/em> movies.\u00a0 You know, the ones where someone moves into a new neighborhood and is greeted by the Welcome Wagon.\u00a0 Before you could get back to the car with popcorn, the now naked new neighbor, the Welcome Wagon, the Postman, and the movers were\u00a0grinding and grubbing all over the screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Try telling 2\u00a0pre-teen girls to sleep through that.\u00a0 Also, try to explain why the forbidden children who were told to sleep were sent for the popcorn and returned with it\u00a0without anyone calling the cops or Social Services.) \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grubbing and grinding follies, if on a page instead of a movie screen, would be in the category \"adults only.\"\u00a0 I get that.\u00a0 What I don't get is where the boundary begins.\u00a0 When exactly does romance enter the \"adults only\" category<em>?<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Brotherly\u00a0Love<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0and <em>E-mail Enticement<\/em> \u00a0both venture beyond the bedroom door.\u00a0 In fact, both describe the physical encounters in graphic and - I hope - arousing, enticing and alluring detail.\u00a0 <em>Brotherly<\/em>\u00a0 contains\u00a0a\u00a0scene\u00a0in a bordello with one man and several \"ladies of the evening.\"\u00a0\u00a0 Neither\u00a0book contains\u00a0sharing of their coupling by the focal pair nor\u00a0(darn it) bondage, sex toys,\u00a0or overly unusual forms or foibles.\u00a0 Does the writer's intent make the difference or\u00a0does it take something more?\u00a0 Help me out - what makes a book\u00a0fit the adult only category?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I've categorized both <em>Brotherly and E-mail<\/em>\u00a0 as adult only.\u00a0 Does anyone have an idea whether that helps or hurts sales?\u00a0\u00a0When I check out\u00a0my books in the e-tailers,\u00a0some (most) of the others in the same section make my stuff\u00a0look and sound pretty tame.\u00a0 So I got to wondering -- am I in the wrong neighborhood?<\/p>\n<p>I'd appreciate someone getting out the clue gun and pointing it in my direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a little town\u00a0in South Carolina that had a drive-in theater.\u00a0 But, mind you, not a regular drive-in.\u00a0 This one was special.\u00a0 When my mother and my aunt drove\u00a0in, my cousin and I\u00a0were hidden under blankets in the back seat.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because it showed those movies.\u00a0 You know, the ones where someone <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/a-categorical-conundrum\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"A Categorical Conundrum\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}