I correct any worry in that "respect" by physically walking through the large Cleveland Public Library. Some say all fiction is not "literature" and yet when you step onto the second floor of the main and enter fiction on your right and walk ALL THE WAY AROUND, you exit through literature. And vice versa. Physically and literally the SAME SPACE.
Everything is perspective. Respect what you do. Love it. Or don't do it.
Work and publish in your own sealed love bubble to protect you and your stories from OTHERS' lack of respect and fear of sex and all things erotic. Perceptions change. Stupid kiddy stories are the biggest selling things right now: Potter, H Games, Twilight, Percy, etc.
Erotica is coming into the light, with a brilliance as yet unseen, good and bad and great; that's what 50 shades implies to me. People admitting and volunteering their participation with erotica, compared to people being indignant and whiny about and hiding their reading "Peyton Place" [fiction with few erotic moments but talked of the aftermath: bastard children, incest] or "The Story of O" back in the 1950s/60s.
Or "Forever Amber" which everyone denied reading and yet it was THE BIGGEST SELLING BOOK OF THE 1940S.
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