Recently, our blog has been getting a lot of spam. Since comments are held in moderation until they’re approved or deleted, it hasn’t been a huge problem. But this recent trend started with spam from an alleged hairstylist site. Then it morphed into random spam about Jesus and numbers in the bible. And now we’re getting porn spam.
Who writes this stuff?
Some of it seems to be from porn websites. Click here for…take your pick of the type of porn. But the rest of it seems to be from individuals whose emails feature a guy’s name. These are usually so long that to delete them, I have to scroll down for what feels like a short forever. These long treatises appear to be porn stories.Whoever writes this shit must have nearly endless amounts of time, an excess of hormones, and not a clue about writing.
Want to write porn? Forget 50 Shades of Grey by E.L James. Try literate porn: Anais Nin’s “erotica” and Henry Miller’s – well, whatever.
I got through half of 50 Shades and didn’t bother with the rest of it or its two sequels. The sadomasochistic relationship in the book depicted a stupid woman who had little insight into her own persona. Then there was the male character, a control freak, so unappealing it’s a total mystery why any woman would find him attractive or desirable. These two characters don’t even represent archetypes. They’re just, I don’t know, a mess.
Nin knew how to write. But E.L. James is like these porn spammers, a wannabe resorting to pathetic posts on other people’s websites. That I’m even writing this is weird. The only reviews I’ve ever left for other writers – on Amazon – are five stars. This is my first negative ever about a writer’s work. And it was all spurred by random porn on our website.
So porn folks, a suggestion. Take all the shit you’ve posted on our website and go self-publish. Somewhere, you’ll find readers.
