The Bisexualizing Effect of Erotica

This way, readers may imaginatively experience the same act from both perspectives. Whether him- or herself male or female, the reader will be afforded the privilege of experiencing the same sexual act from the perspective of each sex.

In composition classes, students are taught that there are two ways by which to compare or contrast persons, places, or things: either describe all of one and then all of the other or describe first one point concerning one topic and then the same point concerning the other topic, alternating back and forth among the remaining points which are to be made between the two topics.

This same principle applies to the description of sexual acts and the physical and emotional responses between a male and a female character which attend such acts. A writer can first describe anal, oral, vaginal, or manual sex from the male perspective and then from the female perspective or may opt to describe one part of the act and its associated feelings and emotions from the male's point of view before describing the same part of the act and its associated feelings and emotions from the female's point of view, alternating back and forth as each additional part of the experience is then described. (Alternatively, the female's perspective can be represented first, followed by the male's point of view.)

Here is an example, involving anal intercourse, in which one part of the act is described first from the man's viewpoint and then the same part of the act is described from the woman's point of view:

Jack stared down at Monica, who, lying on her back, naked, offered him a view of her firm breasts; her flat, slightly concave tummy; and her sleek, firm, widespread thighs. His gaze traveled down her abdomen, pausing to admire the circle of her gaping anus, which he'd already stretched wide enough to permit effortless access to her rectum. Pointing his erection toward its target, he easily drove his rigid prick through the ring of her sphincter, feeling the length of its shaft plunge smoothly through the round muscle and into the warm, tender depths of her lower bowel. She opened to him--or he opened her--and the sliding of his cock deep into her ass was proof, he thought, of his mastery of his passive, submissive lover.