Transformation Erotica
Erotica comes in a scintillating variety, so broad that a “rule of the internet” has been proposed to express just how marvelously strange it can get: “If it exists, then there is porn of it.” Think about it; you know it’s true. There’s erotic material out there for every taste. If you know my work, then you know that I like erotica involving transformations of the body. Looking back through the stories I’ve posted on my podcast, close to half of the stories involve this in some aspect or other.
Within Transformation Erotica there are many sub-sub-genres, some of which can be remarkably specific. Gender-swaps and gender-fuckery is only the most obvious of these. There is fiction out there about enlarging body parts, or the whole body, or shrinking the body down to the size of a doll. Some involve growing more body parts, or growing new ones. There are transformations, either in part or in whole, into animals, dolls, manikins and robots.
One interesting aspect of many of these stories is that the erotic focus isn’t on having sex once one has been transformed, but rather in the transformation itself. Sometimes, the stories don’t even depict sex at all, or else do so only as a footnote to establish the psychological effect on the person who was transformed. What’s sexy is the transformation.
Some stories have a strong theme of dominance or submission. Growing huge breasts sometimes goes along with becoming a submissive bimbo, but it sometimes means gaining confidence and a certain kind of sexual power, and sometimes they’re just a huge inconvenience. Turning into a giantess might mean smashing down a building with one naked foot, or it might mean becoming stuck inside one’s own bedroom.
Generalities are as easy here as they are anywhere else, that is, easy to make and full of exceptions. If you look, you can find themes of misogyny and misandry, empowerment and disempowerment, metaphors for the world as it is, and hopes for a world that could be. To me, finding those themes says as much about the reader as they do about the writer. The reason these stories exist is because they turn people on, not to advance an agenda in sexual politics.
As I go through these various flavors of transformations over the next few months, I’ll be looking at them in more detail, presenting examples from my own work and from the work of others that I admire. If you’re familiar with transformation erotica, I hope you’ll read these posts and compare to your own experience; if you’re not, then I hope I can open a new world to you.
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