humor and erotica

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[nushu2]

Humour in practice is tough but simple in concept. There are only two flavours and endless mixtures of both. Wit is intellectual and can make someone smile but it rarely triggers that laugh reflex. Laughing is the release of tension from a shock.

It's no wonder why the same humour doesn't work for everyone. It can be a thin line between shocking and revolting or banal. I've gone over that line so many times .... it isn't funny.

Wit doesn't depend so much on intellectual capacity as much as background. No such animal as universal humour but The Simpsons come pretty close. The funniest joke resembles reality.

That should help you get to sleep.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I understand exactly what you're saying, Sub Joe, I think.
I was once an incurable National Lampoon reader.

Then you're the man! I too was a total NatLamp addict. Even had a subscription. Still have them bound and curling in the basement, too fragile to read anymore.

But anyhow--

You can write a funny erotic story, but you simply cannot write a sex scene that's both funny and arousing at the same time. For the men in the audience, it's like peeing and ejaculating at the same time. The plumbing just doesn't work that way.

There are a lot of theories about humor and what happens to us when we laugh, but one thing is certain, and that's that humor's some kind of mirror-image of sex, or anti-sex, equally powerful, but pointing in the opposite direction.

I suppose in the Bizarro world, where everything is backwards, people go out and watch porn with their families, and then go home and lock themselves in their bedrooms and drag out their old National Lampoons from under the bed and laugh. It makes sense. Sex and laughter are both pleasures that are best when they're shared, but they can't be mixed.

I've written funny sex stories, but the laughter always stops when the pants go down. You can have one or the other, but you can't have both.

Or, as Woody Allen said, "Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

---dr.M.

 

[nushu2]

What's wrong with sex being fun?

Edit: Now that's timing.

Edit #2: I disagree. I've had some great laughs during sex. There was that one time it was deflating when my girlfriend screamed out, "WRONG HOLE" and the whole campground was laughing.

What the hell, Edit#3: O.C. and Stiggs in NL. That was hilarious for a teenage delinquent.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

What's wrong with sex being fun?

Nothing, I hope. I think that's why all the women laugh so hard when I drop my pants.

---dr.M.

 

[cantdog]

Sex is fun but it is not a laugh riot, not without becoming non-erotic, just the same. It generally is pretty laughable, absurd even. But if you let yourself appreciate that, it goes to hell.

The sex in my comedies is often very serious and erotic, but I do write of the ridiculous nature of it from time to time. It ruins it as stroke material, but it serves the comedy.

cantdog

 

[NoJo]

Nothing, I hope. I think that's why all the women laugh so hard when I drop my pants.

---dr.M.

It's probably the way you time it just right.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Sex is fun but it is not a laugh riot, not without becoming non-erotic, just the same. It generally is pretty laughable, absurd even. But if you let yourself appreciate that, it goes to hell.

Maybe that's why nature's taught us to suppress our sense of humor during sex, because if we didn't, we'd be so busy laughing at how ridiculous the whole thing was that we'd never get to finish it at all.

BTW, I think that women have a much better sense of humor about sexual matters than men do, probably because they have to watch us.

---dr.M.

 

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[hmmnmm]

I too was a total NatLamp addict. Even had a subscription. Still have them bound and curling in the basement, too fragile to read anymore.
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I did not get a subscription but I did get the izod type shirt, except instead of the alligator it had the frog with no legs.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Humor and Sex

Outside of my sharing Doc's ability to trigger gales of laughter just by dropping my pants, the subject of sex and humor reminds me of two things.

The scene in Annie Hall when after Woody Allen and Diane Keaton finish doing the dirty deed, he says, "That's the most fun I've ever had in bed without laughing."

There's an old joke about someone saying they were giving up sex because, "It's too strenuous, too messy, and the position is too ridiculous."

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

I'm a giggle bug. It is SO hard not adding humor to my erotic poetry or stories. I'm actually working on this right now, argh!

 

[cantdog]

You'll be posting a story, then? Good enough!