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feotakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#1: Oct 23rd 2010 at 9:15:37 AM

. . . if the author seems to be trying to disgust the reader with it? The case in question is The Worthing Saga, where the narration expresses what seems to be contempt for a society that's horribly disgusted by videos of urination but thinks videos of sex are perfectly fine. (Ignore for a moment whether you're horribly disgusted by videos of urination—the point here is that the writer doesn't seem to be getting off on the sex depicted.)

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
EternalSeptember Since: Sep, 2010
#2: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:33:54 AM

Fetish Fuel is a troper tales subcategory, it's nothing more than "this troper is turned on by xy". Anything can be Fetish Fuel for someone.

DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#3: Oct 27th 2010 at 1:13:10 PM

But the OP was asking about Fetish-Fuel Future, not Fetish Fuel.

In response to the OP: I don't know, and haven't read the work in question, but what you describe doesn't sound like Fetish-Fuel Future to me.

feotakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#4: Oct 31st 2010 at 3:04:48 AM

Okay, then I guess I'll say that a Fetish-Fuel Future is a future where Everybody Has Lots of Sex and the author's getting off on it. We don't seem to have a trope for a future where Everybody Has Lots of Sex and the author's not getting off on it (which, come to think of it, also describes Brave New World), so I guess this example's just Everybody Has Lots of Sex.

Edit: Wait, just looked more closely at the actual trope description rather than the examples. Apparently it only counts if it's weird sex, with normal sex not fitting the trope, so this wasn't anywhere near that anyways. Forget it, forget it.

edited 31st Oct '10 3:07:48 AM by feotakahari

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
MatthewTheRaven Since: Jun, 2009
#5: Apr 22nd 2011 at 8:57:12 PM

Another example like this: Idiocracy's hypersexualized future seems to be less about titillation and more about showing how trashy and shallow this idiotic future is.

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