NO EBONICS FOR HEROES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN EROTICA
NO EBONICS FOR HEROES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN EROTICA
COLUMBUS, Miss. (Wireless Flash) – There’s a new trend in African- American erotica novels: The sex is dirty but the words are clean. That’s the word from erotica author Diane Miller, editor of a series of erotic romance novels called Indigo After Dark. Miller says many African-Americans are craving erotica geared toward them, but most potential customers refuse to buy books in which the female characters are referred to as “bitches” or “hos.” As a result, she allows her writers get as nasty as possible on the sex, but she forbids any of the male heroes from speaking ebonics or using gangsta talk because “...otherwise, they sound like thugs.”
Mon 06-25-01