However, Ford countered that "violence itself is very sexual", and the act of conquest is part of the erotica experience.

Despite his fascination for erotica violence, Ford said he most enjoys discovering "what gets other people off, because in America, people shy away from admitting it".

He also said "lesbian and gay erotica is always much hotter than heterosexual erotica because Heterosexual men do not know good sex".

After the completion of her reading, Tan was quick to emphasize that writing smut does not necessarily take a toll on one's personal life. Rather, some smut writers are just "recluses with huge imaginations".

Revealing that "there is a lot of sex I haven't had yet so I don't feel like I'm in a rut", Tan jokingly expressed her desire to start a club for people in the porn industry who don't have time for sex in their personal lives.

Ford concluded his remarks by noting that if he wrote "bad sex, it's really my fault".

"It's the old Baptist guilt thing in a new form", he said.