Ghost story smut
Spooky season brings out the best in us
Hey horny readers! This week’s newsletter is a re-post of a holiday classic with some new smutty information.
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I have a confession: I rarely read books for fun. I’m currently deep in research for a documentary I’m working on and I read a lot of non-fiction for that. I listen to audio-books, but they also tend to be work-related or self-improvement focused. I have friends who are voracious readers of fiction and I know that I’m missing out. Since I don’t really read for pleasure, I don’t have any related guilt pleasures. One of my friends recently confessed hers—she reads supernatural smut. Horny stories with fairies, forests, and mythical creatures.
I’ve never thought about reading smut (maybe I’m just too visual?), but I went on a search for seasonal specials. As it turns out, Halloween is a very special time. I found titles that sound similar to internet porn, but more literary like “The Witch's Tentacle Monster: Fertile Paranormal Smut” and “Morning Glory Milking Farm,” which promises manly meaty endowments. Most of the best sellers on any erotic horror list I could find were ghost stories.
There are horny ghost stories in all kind of media, dating way back. The incubi and succubi, supernatural entities that appear in dreams to seduce people, are characters that originated in medieval times. An incubus is a male demon in human form that seeks to have sex with sleeping women, like Bill Cosby; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus. One of the earliest evident mentions of a demon sharing qualities with an incubus comes from Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C. There are parallels in all different cultures, like the mare Swedish folklore and the alp in German folklore.
We also love horny ghosts in movies, right? Last year, I wrote this about the proliferation of horny ghosts in storytelling, and the related fetish, spectrophilia:
Horny ghosts in movies aren’t new—there’s Ghost, Ghostbusters, Casper, My Boyfriend’s Back, Life After Beth and many more. Ghost sex isn’t limited to movies, through. Last year, a story went viral about a woman in Texas who had a group of horny ghosts haunting her home, and talking dirty to her. She claims to have heard the sexual spirits moaning things like “Oh baby, oh baby, yeah” and “I like it like that.”
If you find yourself into this kind of thing, you might be a spectrophiliac. Spectrophilia is a fetish, classified as a paraphilia, in which one is attracted to ghosts or spirits, and possibly fantasizes about having sex with them. Some people even claim to have experienced ghostly intercourse.
In 2018, a British woman named Amethyst Realm announced that she had become engaged to a poltergeist who she cheated on her husband with. She said the ghost asked her to get married during a trip to celebrate their nine-month relationship, but “there was no going down on one knee — he doesn’t have knees.” Perhaps he made up for his lack of knees with a monster schlong because she also claimed they had sex on the way home, joining the mile high club. In case you’re wondering, she called off the wedding because he kept disappearing.
While I imagine that she was furiously masturbating to Casper in the bathroom, who can say what is real to someone else? It turns out, many people have claimed to have sexual encounters with ghosts. The list includes celebrities, like Anna Nicole Smith, Dan Aykroyd, Lucy Liu, and Kesha (her 2012 song “Supernatural” is about the encounter).
Some accounts of sex with ghosts are linked to sleep paralysis or masturbation, but that doesn’t make the fetish less real. Personally, I had my sexual awakening when Devon Sawa walked down the stairs in Casper. I think Ghost is a super horny movie. I even have some problematic feelings for Beetlejuice, so I choose not to judge anyone’s fetish (as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone). Everyone deserves a chance to handle their unfinished business. Even if it’s on Jet Blue.
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