Over the covid-19 pandemic, I began to publish smut on Reddit. It was something I did cautiously and in secret. Only my closest friends and partners knew. They had told me my erotica writing was well done and that I should publish it. However, my fear of being found out as a psychotherapist who wrote smut, squashed any excitement I felt about that possibility. I had fears of being reprimanded by the college. Fear of clients judging me and my credibility being questioned. Yes, I talk about sex with people in therapy, but writing about sex somehow felt like a risky decision. So, I continued to publish on Reddit. It wasn’t uncommon for my eroticas to be upvoted several hundred times, or for comments such as, “This is the kind of erotica I want to read! Please keep posting!”, to be shared. Yet, I opted to keep this category of my writing a secret.
I think it's so powerful to see a therapist who writes erotica & is open about it...I think it definitely helps to normalize erotica and to show that you can have trauma around sexuality & still be a kinky, sexual being. I loved the erotica itself too...so nice to read kinky erotica that is written for queer people :)
I think it's so powerful to see a therapist who writes erotica & is open about it...I think it definitely helps to normalize erotica and to show that you can have trauma around sexuality & still be a kinky, sexual being. I loved the erotica itself too...so nice to read kinky erotica that is written for queer people :)