This is a good story with a formal and public punishment at a royal court, not strictly judicial, but close to it. Another story by Tom Justin, "The Lady Ashley's Penance", is one of the best stories in the JCP genre ever, IMHO.
This is an interesting story, but it's not a formal punishment, unfortunately. There is another great story by Mike Dee strictly on the JCP theme - "Inmate".
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That I agree with. If anything it's anti-Indian (the names of the torturers are all Indian).
Yes, but stories are how we humans learn and interact with the world. Stories affect and are affected by how we see the world. They matter, or why write and read them?
Mmm, not so much. Except for a couple of Roman stories, KD's victims are typically white Anglos-British, American and an occasional Aussie. The torturers run the gamut, but the victims are all more or less the same. And yes, that's true in my stories as well-even where I made my main character Indian by ancestry, she was born in New Jersey and was thoroughly American...
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There area lot of non-English speakers here (many accuse me of thatA question to consider would be... ignoring this site for a moment and casting an eye at the entire world in its amazing diversity, disease and depravity...
... what are the sexual fantasies most common among peoples who've lived for a long time under oppression and dictatorship?
Are those who live in it, more or less likely to dream up desires of torture?
I'd tend to doubt, at least for women.
Anyway already much lesser divergences of perspective bring forth differing desires
Apart from the question of freedom to access.
And then again, this forum mandates the English language.
Which is not much of an entry barrier for those who post only images.
But to find resonance here as a storyteller you'd need either good command of that tongue, or a competent translator.
Most of the 'off-topic' discussions... jokes, randomness, banter, political discussions etc. are also firmly centered on the Anglospheric viewpoint.
With all that as given, it's no wonder that protagonists tend to be Anglospheric and when the backdrop isn't political dystopia or standard history (Romans, barbarians) it will usually be 'one of those foreign places where things like that could happen'.
The opposite perspective of course does exist... a lot of Western-created fantasies exploit 'Orientalist' tropes, but it's a peculiar conceit of the modern West that only our culture has created stereotypes. 'Occidentalist' fantasies just as well are present in the Arab world, which shape the views of Arab men of how to interact with the imagined stereotype of the 'Western woman'. Consider the fate of every single western woman in Season of Migration to the North ....
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That's true and English isn't my first language either. But there's a clear Anglo dominance here. I'm not complaining, if it bothered me I could just defect to a German forum but frankly I'd rather not ... on any niche topic, an English forum will have the world and other European tongues just their own countries.
Now that's a verified fact, of course it's because we tend to get the whole picture while you guys obsessively focus on certain parts...
What could Malins possibly mean???Now that's a verified fact, of course it's because we tend to get the whole picture while you guys obsessively focus on certain parts...
Keep up the fine work!
It's hard to do such studies, since dictatorships probably wouldn't allow them, but I suspect if you faced a real possibility of actually being tortured that would reduce its erotic appeal. But who knows?
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Yes but they are also for a good part written by either Anglospherics, or members of European-descended cultures that use English as a second language. When we get people outside of the Western circle, such as Chinese contributors, we do get different characters.
KD's story as an example would it be any better or worse a story if the protagonist were called Priya Narayan (just as a randomly chosen example
