Matt: Every time I see you playing something, it's “technically not a porn game.”
Dom: Well. They're not.
Dom: Well. They're not.
I brought tissues, but I didn’t expect to use them for tears.
— A common Internet joke about these types of works
<Shadow> You know how when you watch anime and they have a little nudity, you think "Why can't there be more porn in this show?"
<Shadow> Then you watch hentai, and you think "Why can't the story be better?"
<Shadow> I just saw Hanaukyo Maids, and I don't know whether to jack off or watch politely.
<Shadow> Then you watch hentai, and you think "Why can't the story be better?"
<Shadow> I just saw Hanaukyo Maids, and I don't know whether to jack off or watch politely.
— qdb.us quote #24133
"So let me get this straight; you made a porno film where the point was the plot."
— March, The Nice Guys
Blake: Excuse me?! Ninjas of Love is a great series! The author crafted an entirely new, expansive world and an entire combat system from whole cloth! A quality one, I might add, that at least tries to have its fights be won by brains rather than who can cause the bigger explosion! The characters are astoundingly complex, if you bother to look past the surface characteristics, and the plot is sublime! What I read is-!
Ruby: Smut. Blatant, high-quality, well-publicized smut. And you know it.
Ruby: Smut. Blatant, high-quality, well-publicized smut. And you know it.
I'm sure there's some romantic stuff in there...beneath all the fffffffuckin'!
— Wolfgang Connolly (reacting to his party mate semi-lamenting what he wanted was an actual romance novel, not necessarily porn), Role With Me
"I'd always thought: Would it be possible to do a piece of erotica that is artistically satisfying as well as satisfying in a pornographic sense?
[...]
We wanted to give this book everything that an ordinary piece of literature would have: We wanted to give it characters and settings and themes, and motifs and metaphors and fancy stuff like that. And we wanted it to have a meaning amid all of the couplings and copulations. We wanted to have a human meaning that was serious and powerful and relevant to people's lives.
[...]
We thought that those seemed like big enough themes to actually make this something that — yes, is a pornographic book, self-avowedly — but there is no reason why a book of pornography should not be drawings or writings about wantons, as I believe the word originally means. There's no reason why it shouldn't be arousing and yet also be talking about important issues, about serious human things."
[...]
We wanted to give this book everything that an ordinary piece of literature would have: We wanted to give it characters and settings and themes, and motifs and metaphors and fancy stuff like that. And we wanted it to have a meaning amid all of the couplings and copulations. We wanted to have a human meaning that was serious and powerful and relevant to people's lives.
[...]
We thought that those seemed like big enough themes to actually make this something that — yes, is a pornographic book, self-avowedly — but there is no reason why a book of pornography should not be drawings or writings about wantons, as I believe the word originally means. There's no reason why it shouldn't be arousing and yet also be talking about important issues, about serious human things."
—Alan Moore on Lost Girls
Interviewer: I think there were a lot of people who didn’t think [the song] could be from an adult film because nobody making adult films today really bothers with that stuff anymore.
Philip Booth: Honestly, back then, the industry was completely different. They were making actual films and stories and shooting on film. Nowadays, it’s just, you know, a camcorder or phone or whatever, but back then it was a huge industry. And we learned, actually, from licensing music for them to use, working on the sets. We learned how to shoot film, and we got the bug, and that’s how we ended up wanting to make movies, not adult movies, but movies. [...]
Reviews
"The first comic which I skipped the yiff to get to the plot."
—Anonymous, with a storydriven furry comic.
"I've played a lot of Mahjong games at this point, and Mahjong Gakuen is one of the better ones. I know, I'm kinda shocked myself. They could have just sold this one on having naked women in it, but it seems like they actually put in some effort!... Well, I'm sure I'll start seeing some bad strip Mahjong games soon enough."
—RndStranger, "PC Engine Power: Mahjong Gakuen: Toumasou Shirou Toujou" (No explicit gameplay is in the review)
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