poppy lee

✦ erotica for feminists ✦

[thesmutgremlin]

I'm Poppy Lee, the smut gremlin ✨

I write M/F erotic literature informed by feminist theory. Sex is beautiful, and we deserve cliterature that reflects that.

✦ VISIT MY WEBSITE TO READ MY STORIES AND ESSAYS ✦

Follow for discourse, memes, erotica, and more. All posts are tagged so you can use filters to see what you love and skip what you don't.

Enjoy!

- PL ♥︎

TAGS

✦ MY POSTS ✦ FEMINISM ✦ MEMES ✦ ART ✦ OTHER ✦ FAVS ✦

[swag-smartwomenabolishgender]

"Porn wants you to feel like a fuckhole. Porn wants you to feel like your worth is what a man wants to do to you. Porn wants you to feel like an object, and not just you— all your female friends, your female relatives, little tiny girls. Do you want us to feel like fuckholes? No. That is NOT what we are. Get angry. Grief comes in many forms and righteous female rage is one of them."

-Kitty Robinson,

Taking Back Our Minds: A Radical Feminist Approach to Recovering from Porn Use

Taking Back Your Mind: A Radical Feminist Approach to Recovering from Porn Use

Just a note: this essay is addressing radical feminists (or gender critical/radical feminist-leaning feminists) and therefore starts with…

[vexheart]

[lesbian-archives]

What Lesbians Do - Godiva, 1975

[dinovelvet]

[exdivine]

The BDSM community often claims to be radical and transgressive, but I don’t see how it’s either of those things. What is exactly radical about a dominant, aggressive, and sexually violent man and a submissive, pliant, demure woman? I’m aware there are women doms, but the majority of doms are men, this is well-known. Plus woman doms often take on a highly sensationalised depiction of femininity so I don’t see how that’s transgressive either.

I’ve heard the argument that BDSM is radical because the sub, the woman, chooses this dynamic. But it’s really the extreme end of the traditional heterosexual patriarchal relationship dynamic. So how is this radical? What boundaries do these dynamics actually push rather than confirming traditional views of sex and sexuality?

[wetcherryliquor]

[batsinmypants]

Actively ignore anything influencers or the vast majority of YouTubers recommend since they have awful taste and recommend the same 10 books.

[teacuprevelry]

All of the above, co-signed by a former librarian.

[second-hand-art]

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“Early feminist thinkers saw sex as something thal women had been shut out of. Women had not been allowed the delights that men had taken for granted. Sex was an equal rights issue.

Male sexuality was taken as the model which women were to emulate. Feminists did not realise that the male model could not be emulated by women because, rather than simply being 'sex', it was a ruling-class sexuality which the powerless class could not adopt.

But heterosexual feminists in the early 1970s believed women could be more successful at that model than men. Pat Whiting explained how this would occur: 'Given the right psychological and erotic stimulation, the female can respond to sexual pleasure and orgasm in the same way as the male and has a greater potential of response.' Anne Koedt likened the clitoris to the penis. She wrote: 'the clitoris is almost identical to the penis'; and 'the clitoris is a small equivalent of the penis'.

The ideal form of male sexuality in the sexual revolution was potent, continuously capable of sex and always desiring, capable of separating sex from loving emotion and making use of all sexual opportunities. It was based on a boom-slump model. The parameters of sexual activity were set by engorgement of the penis caused by sexual attraction, which was to lead directly to greater and greater engorgement until orgasm and deflation. Sex was goal-orientated. The goal was orgasm and sex ended when the orgasm was achieved.”

- Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“The main problem for women trying to emulate male sexuality is that as a ruling-class sexuality, it is constructed around the fact that they have a subordinate class on whom to act sexually. Women are that subordinate class.

The elements that constitute male sexuality depend upon the possession of ruling-class status such as objectification, aggression, and the separation of sex from loving emotion. Women are bound to be unsuccessful in seeking to acquire a form of sexuality which depends upon the possession of ruling-class power.

It might be possible for some lesbians to seek a close emulation of ruling-class sexuality because they are able to practise on other women. Heterosexual women cannot practise ruling-class sexuality on men because they are not the ruling class. All that heterosexual women are in a position to do is to accommodate male sexual interests while feeling inadequate.”

- Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax

[thesmutgremlin]

I finally debugged my queue! It should start posting now.

And it only took me seven months! I'm so good at running a blog.

[thesmutgremlin]

[petaltexturedskies]

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Anaïs Nin, from In Favor of the Sensitive Man: Essays

[etretesyeux]

The Lovers by Jef Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux (1852-1908)

[dogpuppy]

[not100bees]

[silverrdagger]

erotic art by Mihály Zichy

[cryptotheism]

A lot of booktook smut is easy to make fun of but generally I think women jerking off is a good and righteous thing. Yet another example of things that are embarrassing also being cool. Lotta complex thoughts to think out there. Be safe. I love you.