What I Read And Wrote In January

 

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It’s been a hectic start to the year here at AJP Headquarters! Lots of work in my day job that piled up over the holidays is now ALL top priority, we headed out of town for a weekend to celebrate my mom’s birthday, and of course the country slipped further into authoritarianism. My wife’s family is from St. Paul, so the news out of Minnesota was of particular interest to us — and made it hard to focus on anything else.

What I Read In January

I’ll admit to needing a little escape and there were a few writers that provided great escapist fodder the past couple of months, including a couple of female-dominant stories that were not my normal thing but that I quite enjoyed. These are all on Medium.

The first is a nine-part series on Medium from Maya D'Souza called “His Whore, My Rules”. When the protagonist discovers his husband’s cheating, she takes total control of both him and his affair partner, who is more than willing to be her sub. Hubby might have been a harder nut to crack, but crack him (or them) she does. This thing is white-hot and I loved every word.

In Sean Geist’s “My Wife’s Best Lay”, a couple slides into a hot wife dynamic without really talking about it, with our hero’s boss as the lucky recipient. In so many hot wife stories, there is planning, discussion, rules — not so here. This one is all about opportunity, and pushing until someone yells “stop!” But maybe they don’t?

In a very different vein, Jordan Lubov’s age gap story of an inexperienced young coed that looks to an older man for guidance is told with sensitivity and patience. I’m doling the chapters out, taking my time with it as he does with her. Jordan’s stuff is always good!

A married pair gets a very special, off-the-menu couples massage for their anniversary in Scarlett Erotica’s “The Anniversary Massage That Broke Us Both Open” — her titles tend to be very descriptive! This is a short one but very hot.

A couple of months ago I wrote about a couple of non-fiction writers I was following on Medium (one of whom has sadly now left and doesn’t seem to be posting anywhere). More recently I’ve been reading The Career MS and enjoying her takes on relationships, trends, etc. As I’ve stated before, it’s possible she’s really a 60 year old guy in Des Moines with a beer gut, but he’s really really good, if that’s the case. She is very prolific, but I find that I agree with most of what she writes, which seems impossible, but there ya go.

What I Wrote In January

Well, not much, although I am continuing to work on the finale for “Devil Inside”. To buy myself some time, I’ve been posting two chapters of my award-winning “Neighbors: The Beach Trip” every week on Medium. It’s the first erotica novel I published and some of my very earliest fiction writing, so I’ve tried to clean it up a bit but I’m mostly left the story itself intact. I quite enjoy it — I hope you do too! It should run into the second week of February.

If you’re impatient to get to the end, of course it’s available on Amazon.

After that, I hope to post the last arc of “Devil Inside” starting the second half of February, then wrapping all of it up into a novel.

If you want to stay warm this winter, I suggest you read lots of erotica, whether it’s mine or some of the other folks I’ve mentioned! It’s a long way ’til spring!

 

Looking Backwards and Forwards (with a little aside about AI porn)

 

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This is usually the time when I update you all on what I’ve been writing and reading, both to highlight my own stuff as well as erotica that I particularly liked and can recommend. But that would make for a very short post, as I’ve little time to read or write in December. Between end of year work deadlines and holiday prep (and enjoyment!) — let’s just say that trying to write was mostly a non-starter.

So instead, here’s a quick recap of 2025! I published a BUNCH of stories on Medium, many of which also ended up on Literotica (I write as ‘flipnmelonfarmer’ there). I submitted four stories to two anthologies that JK Mill is putting together for later in 2026 (hoping that at least a couple of them will be chosen!).

I also published one short novel (“The Consultant: Mothers and Daughters” — a sequel to my previous “Consultant” book) and I collected over a dozen short stories from the past 18 months or so into an anthology, called “Filthy Bedtime Stories for Adults”. Both are available on Amazon as ebooks and as paperbacks.

Looking ahead, 2026 is going to be a year of major changes. I’ve got a ton of story ideas that I’m ready to write, but I’ll be experimenting with platforms other than Medium, given the massively reduced compensation from that platform since the end of 2024. All the platforms I’ve investigated have their problems, and I need a little time to sort through them and decide on a couple to try.

If all goes well, I’ll have more time to do that research and experimentation (as well as more time to write) as I’m hoping to retire from my 44 year IT career sometime in the middle of 2026. Fingers crossed!

I am in the middle of serializing my novel “Neighbors: The Beach Trip” on Medium — we’re about halfway through at this writing. It was the first erotica novel I ever published, and I’ve enjoyed going back and rewriting/reediting parts of it — I think it’s good but my writing has improved so now I think it’s even better!

I’m also working on the final arc for “Devil Inside”, my crazy erotic horror/mind control story. The final arc will be a little lighter on horror but will feature lots of sexy sex!

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When I first started publishing stories on Medium early in 2024, I started using a generative AI engine to produce racy-but-SFW “artwork” for my posts. I found it somewhat addictive, to be honest. It was easy to get sucked into creating fantasy scenes (many of them definitely NOT SFW), and I got pretty good at creating prompts to get the results I was looking for.

As I thought more about ethical considerations (massive power consumption, training on artwork without the artists’ permission, etc), I stopped using AI “art” and started hitting the free photo repositories instead. That’s a personal decision and I’m not shaming anyone who makes a different one (at least not in this post!). And I will assure you that I have never used gen AI to write and I don’t intend to in the future. There’s just no fun in that!

But having played around with image generation a bit 18 months ago, I’m fascinated by the discussions around AI porn that are really only now starting to hit the public consciousness. There is a LOT to think about!

Porn has driven adoption of tons of technologies over the past few decades. The VCR, the hi-def standard for DVDs, and tons of internet-related advancements have been fueled by, and in some cases dictated by, the porn industry. Sites like OnlyFans allow porn actors much more control over their careers and even when some of them do cross over and start working for the studios, they seem to have much more control over their schedules, working conditions, etc. It’s easier (and safer) to be a porn actor, but probably a lot harder to get noticed.

So what happens when consumers of porn can relatively easily create their own custom porn? Go hit Reddit or XVideos and you can already find a lot of it — most of it of fairly poor quality yet but some is hard to tell from real people.

Some porn stars are already using GenAI engines to create chatbots to interact with fans in their voice, adding another potential income channel (engagement is KING!). But lots of sites offer AI-generated girlfriend experiences — how is that going to affect real-life interactions when guys (and it will be almost all guys) are used to having an AI girlfriend that never says no, that is down for whatever kinky shit they’re interested in, and who are programmed to please? Real people are likely to be even more of a challenge for these guys than they already are.

I’ve seen some of the ads that some of the girlfriend experience sites run — create a woman that will never ask you to take out the trash, that will never be too tired, that will never spend the evening talking about her day or her problems — who will never say no to any sexual experience.

I find it interesting that in watching a few of the longer AI-generated videos, there’s almost always lots of fellatio (usually the unseen guys have inhumanly-large dicks, of course). There’s lots of athletic sex in various positions. But while my sample size isn’t huge, I have yet to see AI guy go down on the AI girlfriend. Wonder why?

There’s also a ton of fantasy stuff out there — big-boobed futanari with giant cocks, monster-on-monster sex, tentacle sex — all of which has been around for years as anime, but now I’m seeing it being generated by AI.

I have no idea where this is going to go. When it comes to human relationships, I can see the guys who fall down this rabbit hole will either take themselves out of the dating/breeding pool and stick with their ever-more-realistic looking AI babes, or they will try to base actual human interactions on what they’ve learned from their AI booty calls and let’s just say that that will not go well, for the guys or the women.

As for porn performers, who knows? Does human-centered porn become more boutique? Or a fetish thing? Porn companies, and porn performers in general, have weathered a lot of changes — I suspect they’re more concerned about the latest puritanical movements in the US and other companies than they are AI, at least for now. But changes are coming quickly.

Any thoughts from you folks? Have you seen any AI porn? How does this play out?