/lit/ - Literature

>>19725615
Nobody uses your dick. It doesn't mean that your penis is obsolete.

Are h-doujins the 21st century equivalent of Libertine erotica?

What are some books that account for how seemingly everyone on 4chan have suddenly become rich six-foot-tall blonde-haired blue-eyed Chads who inexplicably have lots of sex while also browsing an anime imageboard, and whom we must also take very seriously?

I've yet to hear an explanation for its popularity that isn't just "wish-fulfilment for losers". Someone smart give me your hot take.

When I was 13, after some practice, I finally managed to suck my own dick. I had my mouth around the glans but i couldn't stretch my body any further, and so I couldn't go any deeper (I think the only reason I managed it was because my dick was so big--'got a lot of compliments for it from the other boys who pointed the size of it out at school). Unfortunately, it wasn't very pleasurable at all. Masturbating with your hands feels much better (and a lot more comfortable too!)

Books for this feeling?

Reading lots of stuff (including erotica) from the 19th and 20th centuries got me thinking. Sex was only really written about humourously and jokingly, never taken seriously, and despite what people would typically think nowadays was glaringly commonplace and not taboo at all to talk about.

Why is it then do we have this whole sexuality as "identity" bullshit that infects us modern people? In a way, we're a lot more prudish than the Victorians in our neurotic (borderline schizophrenic) attitudes towards sex. Why is nobody talking about this?

>>18398612
I enjoyed Twilight and Fifty Shades.
I enjoy reading those shitty mass market paperback romance novels that you can buy at dollar stores.
I enjoy fanfiction.
I enjoy YA fiction.
I enjoyed John Green's books.
I skipped most of the Greeks and just read Islamic philosophers instead
I can't read logical notation and refuse to learn it.
I listen to audiobooks while playing video games.

>Among Steiner's non-traditional views, in his autobiography titled Errata (1997), Steiner related his sympathetic stance towards the use of brothels since his college years at the University of Chicago. As Steiner stated, "My virginity offended Alfie (his college room-mate). He found it ostentatious and vaguely corrupt in a nineteen-year-old... He sniffed the fear in me with disdain. And marched me off to Cicero, Illinois, a town justly ill famed but, by virtue of its name, reassuring to me. There he organized, with casual authority, an initiation as thorough as it was gentle. It is this unlikely gentleness, the caring under circumstances so outwardly crass, that blesses me still."
Why was he so based and redpilled?

It's not even as hard as you would think. It's not that important to memorise vocabulary for literary languages, only the grammar and morphology. I took 3 semesters of Latin and 3 of Ancient Greek for some of my electives as an undergraduate at university and a month after completing them, I am now reading the interlinear versions of the most important works of the Western Canon by myself, able to appreciate metre, etc., and am now fully confident that I'm not missing out on anything usually lost in translation. As for me, I have seemingly the fewest reasons to learn these languages; I'm not even interested in learning other Romance or even other Indo-European languages, only trying to maintain and improve my fluency in Chinese and Japanese, and yet I can appreciate the Western classics with only a little bit of my time, sweat, and hard work.

For your own sake, buy/pirate a pdf of a relevant textbook and a grammar and learn these languages. After a while you will find it to be a rewarding experience.

Early Joyce > Late Joyce

Yeah, I get it. Saying the n-word is funny, and women are pretty dumb. I'm one of you guys! I like irreverent humour too. But what's the point of learning elaborate dogma about racial superiority (the Jews and East Asians do beat you on average in IQ scores you know)? Why not just read philosophy and acquire wisdom and learn how to lead a better life, or read poetry and literature to experience beauty? What good is learning how to hate a group of people you've never personally dealt with? Literally how does the knowledge of how to rule a state enrich your life in any way?

Books that tackle this topic?

>>18099230
natural pessimism i suppose

Let's say that I am skilled at writing creatively. What is the most effective way to monetise this?

>>15346433
>>15350083
evangelion by Anno

>>13777202
https://tags.literotica.com/menstruation/?sort_by=rating
https://tags.literotica.com/period/?sort_by=rating
https://www.literotica.com/c/exhibitionist-voyeur