Quote Originally Posted by BDSM_Tourguide
I noticed that many stories appearing in the library seem geared more toward wanton violence, mostly toward women, and non-consensual sex. I was wondering a little about this and some of the ramifications of this.

Are some of these stories being written by people that are genuinely angry with women? Or perhaps with a specific woman? Are the stories written by people that have lived these fantasies out and look to do so again? Perhaps they are written to satiate the primal sexual desire before they actually act the fantasy out.
I realise that this is an old thread, but it raised interesting questions that were not fully answered by the responses.

There were periods of my early life when I was totally deprived of female company. There were compensations of a different kind, but a world without women was a bleak, grey world without colour, emotionally unfulfilling. This kind of deprivation did not make me feel angry against women - there were no women to be angry with, and if there had been, there would have been no such deprivation. On returning to what I regarded as civilisation my senses were so bombarded with joyful images in bright technicolour that it seemed I was living every hour and every minute twice over.

A young man, living for weeks on end under such circumstances, having the normal complement of hormones such as testosterone, needs an outlet for the aggression that is normally released through sexual activity. I used to write fantasies of wild, uninhibited and often imaginative aggression where the recipients of all that aggression were attractive young naked women. I did enjoy doing this. I wrote reams of that kind of stuff. However, back in civilisation, my attitude towards women was not aggressive at all in a violent sense. I never had any inclination to be violent to a woman. I see that as a kind of balance, the fantasy discharging pent-up emotions that contrasted with my well mannered and considerate behaviour in real life.

So, far from indicating repressed, or even actively expressed misogyny, the stories may often be the fantasy on the opposite side of the behavioural coin. It is curious that the Gorean saga refers to an alternative world, as it does. By the way he has constructed his scenario, John Norman may be saying exactly the same thing.