Yes, I liked Courtney Grey very much. And Kitty Fisher's were good, as well as some of the others I've gotten recs for. So far, I haven't run away screaming, but I haven't tried the Snowbound ones yet. If it's abusive or non-con, I won't make it through the stories. I'm good reading just about any intensity as long as it's consensual.
See I like romance, but I think that they're men, and should act like men. But I also think that behind closed doors, there has to be a time when there's tenderness and love, or else why bother with the sex? It's fun to read a couple of stories that are just two blokes doing it, but then I want more. Heck, B or D can pay for sex any time, or more than likely, the woman (or men) would pay either of them for the privilege. But there has to be something special between my guys, not just a quick shag and not a loving word. It is the romantic in me. Guilty as charged.
not just a quick shag and not a loving word Oh, I'm all about there being more to it than that as well - I love it when they're tender with each other. It's just that there are some things that as British men and as men of a certain cultural age/upbringing/mindset I can't see them doing and/or saying. It's sort of... the boundary between that tenderness, and the point where it crosses over into sappiness that's the issue for me, I think...
But yeah, it's about more than just sex - that could be any two bodies - it's about how our lads have sex, and why they do it, and the relationship that's built up between them, which is canonically more than just about sex!
Oh, Gwyneth Rhys' Fit to Be Tied, although it's full of Americanisms it's also good fun!
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Date: 2007-07-17 10:30 pm (UTC)Yes, I liked Courtney Grey very much. And Kitty Fisher's were good, as well as some of the others I've gotten recs for. So far, I haven't run away screaming, but I haven't tried the Snowbound ones yet. If it's abusive or non-con, I won't make it through the stories. I'm good reading just about any intensity as long as it's consensual.
See I like romance, but I think that they're men, and should act like men. But I also think that behind closed doors, there has to be a time when there's tenderness and love, or else why bother with the sex? It's fun to read a couple of stories that are just two blokes doing it, but then I want more. Heck, B or D can pay for sex any time, or more than likely, the woman (or men) would pay either of them for the privilege. But there has to be something special between my guys, not just a quick shag and not a loving word. It is the romantic in me. Guilty as charged.
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Date: 2007-07-17 10:53 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm all about there being more to it than that as well - I love it when they're tender with each other. It's just that there are some things that as British men and as men of a certain cultural age/upbringing/mindset I can't see them doing and/or saying. It's sort of... the boundary between that tenderness, and the point where it crosses over into sappiness that's the issue for me, I think...
But yeah, it's about more than just sex - that could be any two bodies - it's about how our lads have sex, and why they do it, and the relationship that's built up between them, which is canonically more than just about sex!
Oh, Gwyneth Rhys' Fit to Be Tied, although it's full of Americanisms it's also good fun!