Writing About All the Sex: Smut vs. Sex Education

Can you write smut and sex education pieces? I’ll give away the answer to the question…yes, you can. Okay, we’re done here, right? Problem solved! Well, not quite. Choosing to write only erotic fiction or some form of non-fiction is one thing. Believing you can’t (or shouldn’t) is quite another. As someone who routinely does both, I promise it’s possible. The outside vanilla world already has enough misconceptions about sex writing. We don’t need to internalize any other false narratives for ourselves. Writing both requires slightly different muscles and ways of thinking, but once you learn how to shift between the...