Weird Erotica

About

Weird Erotica refers to a genre of adult-themed novels containing graphic sexual encounters with animals, fictional creatures or anthropomorphized objects. Online, the erotica stories have gained much notoriety due to "Monsterotica" books sold on Amazon and various titles written by weird erotica author Chuck Tingle.

Origin

In December 2011, stay-at-home mother Virginia Wade published a novella titled Cum For Bigfoot on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service. During 2012, the book was downloaded over 100,000 times off Amazon, earning Wade anywhere from $6,000 to $30,000 per month.^[1]

Spread

On October 11th, 2013, Kernel Mag^[1] published an article titled "An Epidemic of Filth," which criticized online bookstores for profiting off of sexually deviant ebooks. That month, several online retailers began removing hundreds of self-published adult titles from their sites, including several of Wade's bigfoot erotica titles. On November 27th, TheBooksellerChannel YouTube channel uploaded a speech by Kobo executive Michael Tamblyn, who referred to the ebook removals as "erotica-gate" (shown below).

On December 21st, 2013, Business Insider^[3] published an article about the book removals, containing statements from several self-published monster erotica authors. On December 26th, Redditor porn_flakes submitted the Business Insider article to the /r/offbeat^[4] subreddit, where it received over 1,100 up votes and 150 comments in the first month. On January 3rd, Business Insider published a video reenactment of the novel Taken By The Monsters: An Erotic Monster Tale by K.J. Burkhardt (shown below). In the coming weeks, several news sites published articles about monster erotica ebooks, including The Daily Beast, UpRoxx and Jezebel.

Chuck Tingle

On December 9th, 2014, author Chuck Tingle released the book My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass, with the cover art featuring a shirtless man superimposed in front of a triceratops dinosaur wearing a top hat and monocle (shown below, left).^[8] Over the next three months, Tingle released an additional 15 weird erotica novels, including Pounded by President Bigfoot, Gay T-Rex Law Firm: Executive Boner, Space Raptor Butt Invasion and I'm Gay for My Living Billionaire Jet Plane (shown below).

On March 19th, 2015, Tingle released the book Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt, in which a scientific researcher has a sexual relationship with his cloned buttocks (shown below, left).^[10] On March 29th, Tingle released the book Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt" (shown below, middle). On August 1st, Tingle launched a Facebook^[9] fan page, gathering upwards of 13,600 likes in the next two years. On December 5th, Tingle released the book Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt'" (shown below, right).

On April 25th, 2016, The Daily Dot^[12] published an interview with Tingle titled "Pounded in the butt by the mystery of Chuck Tingle." On January 12th, 2017, Tingle participated in an "ask me anything" thread on the /r/IAmA^[11] subreddit, which gathered upwards of 52,400 votes (69% upvoted) and 1,900 comments within 17 hours.

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