This image caught my eye recently, but for a while I couldn’t figure out why. It’s more porny than I typically like and, although I do think it’s kind of hot, it’s also too cliched to really push my buttons. It seemed familiar, and tonight it finally clicked what it reminded me of. It looks just like a gender reversed Swords and Sorcery fantasy novel cover.
The Gor novels are the classic example in the erotic domain, but there are countless other examples in the fantasy genre. Typically they feature some big beefcake with a sword and a comely slave girl at his feet. For example, this and this and this and this. In this case they’ve switched it around, with a dominant Gia DiMarco, who looks like she could give Conan a run for his money.
The swords and sorcery comment really struck a nerve with me. I was a D&D nerd and the artwork of the buxom blond breastplate is something that as a hormone-ravished young man made me crazy. Not only that, but a touch woman kicking ass… that’s my kind of eroticism!
I kind of skipped the D&D and fantasy phase, so the genre doesn’t resonate quite the same with me. I think my adolescent hormones were churned more by obscure arty European movies that popped up on British TV late at night 🙂 But I do appreciate a trashy swords and sorcery flick now and again, particularly if there’s a tough lady with a sword involved!
-paltego