What does pwp mean in fanfic

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Porn Without Plot. View source. History Talk 0. What Plot? Later on, the meaning of the term drifted, and the phrase "Porn Without Plot" is now more widely used to define the acronym. A story may be referred to as a PWP if the main focus of the action pun entirely intended is on one or more sexual encounters. The definition is fairly flexible, however; some PWPs are good old-fashioned smut, and unapologetically so. A fan remembers the term being used in the mids.

She wrote: "I first came across the term PWP in about or I was attending an early slash convention, IDICon. As soon as I arrived at the hotel I was informed I'd been drafted to be on the "Plot?

The panel was quite a lot of fun, too! KLangley56 pulled together some documentation on when she thought the term originated. From a discussion of the term in It's a shorthand flag for stories whose sole purpose is to present a sexually-explicit situation very often not very well-written ; " stroke story " is another term for the same, especially in erotica.

A PWP is almost always a short story, as going more than a few scenes risks accidentally discovering a plot which may well take over the story , change it to Porn with Plot , and even shove the explicit sexual content off to the side. However there exist many multi-chapter PWP fan fictions written with the intention of cramming as many explicit sex scenes in as possible — some of these end up discovering a gasp!

PWPs are convenient for the writer who wants to produce smut, because they do not require justification ; they simply happen with no explanation. Many years ago, its most common translation was "Plot? What Plot? Obviously deals with Pornography. The Furry Fandom in particular seems to be fond of this trope.

Contrast Porn with Plot and Explicit Content if it happens to involve the former trope instead. Compare No Plot? No Problem! YMMV variant: Sexually explicit mainstream films and TV shows, especially shows who have non-simulated sexual scenes something becoming less rare in film than it used to be are often accused — sometimes accurately, often not — as being this.

Conversely, there are many pornographic films that have very strong plots so much so that many have been released in non-hardcore and even non-sexual edits and still stand up; examples include Cafe Flesh and Star Wars XXX.

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