英情色雜誌拒用女作家 稱女性不擅談性大綱
Women are not passionate enough about sex and concentrate too much on feelings to be able to write raunchy stories, the new owner of Britain's Erotic Review said on Monday.
Determined not to let the magazine be "drowned in estrogen," she said she would have almost exclusively male writers as they knew a lot more about sex.
"I think women, too many of them, whether it's nature or nurture or politics, they're not straightforward about sex," Kate Copstick told the reporters.
"It's almost like writing about food ... Ladies who lunch, should not really write about food because they don't really love food. They don't salivate at the thought of a great steak."
A former writer for the magazine, she bought the publication in May from its original founder, Jamie Maclean, after it ran into financial difficulties.
She said she loved sex so could write about it in the "scratch and itch burst of endorphins" style in which it should be written.
The magazine, which critics have described as middle-class porn, re-launches with its 100th issue this month, and includes an article on Japan's "Festival of the Steel Penis."
Copstick, a 48-year-old former journalist and author of several instructional books about sex, said it would have a new style which would include more poetry, comment and picture spreads, as well as the erotic fiction she said most women were so bad at writing.
Her decision to favor male writers has not escaped criticism.
Kathy Lette, a former writer for the review said a third of women were not achieving orgasm which showed men still had a lot to learn, with women well placed to teach them.
英國《情愛評論》雜誌的新任老闆於本週一稱，女性對性不夠熱情，過度關注感情，因此寫不出精彩的情色故事。
她下決心不再讓雜誌“淹沒在女人堆裏”，並稱今後將幾乎只用男性作家，因爲他們更瞭解性。
凱特•喬普斯蒂克在接受記者採訪時說：“我覺得不管是先天原因還是後天原因，還是某種利害關係影響，絕大部分女性都不會直接談性。”
“就像寫美食一樣，準備午餐的女士其實不該寫美食文章，因爲她們並不是真的愛吃美食。她們不會因爲想到一塊美味牛排而流口水。”
凱特之前是該雜誌的一名作家，她於五月份從創始人傑米•麥克林那裏買下了這份已陷入經濟困難的雜誌。
她直言自己熱衷性愛，因此她的創作方式“簡單直白，且能表達本能慾望”，而這類文章原本也該這樣寫。
批評家們將該雜誌描述爲中產階級色情文學。該雜誌已於本月開始重新發售，恰逢第100期，其中刊有一篇有關日本“男性鋼鐵生殖器節日”的文章。
現年48歲的喬普斯蒂克之前是名記者，並撰寫過多本性指導書籍。她稱該雜誌風格將煥然一新，刊登更多的詩歌、評論、大幅圖片、以及據她所說大部分女性不擅長的情愛小說。
她重用男性作家這個決定招致了批評。
雜誌前作家凱西•萊特稱，1/3的女性達不到性高潮，這表明男性還有很多改進之處，而女性正好可以教他們。
Vocabulary:
estrogen：雌激素， 女性荷爾蒙
salivate：to be full of desire or eagerness for something（流口水）
