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Published 14:45 20 Jun 2017 BST
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Firstly, Rocky's books are amazing. Amazing. As a writer, Rocky Flintstone has no regard for the standards of English: spelling, grammar, syntax, story structure, even basic punctuation - it's all out the window. This either makes him a renegade artist or just someone who didn't pay enough attention in English lessons at school. Biology, too. His grasp of human anatomy is tenuous at best; the kind of impossible sex moves he employs in his books are as eye-watering as they are hilarious. As the series progresses, he learns more about the human body, yet seems ever more determined to contort it into a fleshy freak show. Rocky has some of the most amazing metaphors in literature; the way he paints a picture through words is quite unparalleled. Consider: "Her tits hung freely, like pomegranates" and "[Her nipples] were now as large as the three inch rivets which had held the hull of the fateful Titanic together.” You can't deny you've got an image in your mind. Whether you actually want it there is another matter.
The stories contain some of the least sexy sex scenes ever put down in words. Every now and then, Alice and James have to remind Jamie that what he is reading came out of his father's mind, through his fingers and into words. Once you hear the kind of fantasies that Jamie's dad has dreamt up, you'll wonder how he can even look him in the eye, let alone share a turkey sandwich with him (you'll have to listen to figure out what that means). Belinda Blinked would be perfectly fine as a book (a self-published e-book, to be precise, though it now exists in print) but the podcast elevates Flintstone's badly-written smut to a higher level. The friendship between Jamie, Alice and James is key. As Jamie reads his dad's erotica aloud, Jamie and Alice fill in for us, the audience. Their reaction is usually somewhere between raucous laughter and riotous indignation. With the kind of liberties that Rocky takes with storytelling and the physical limitations of the human body, it's good to have someone to say, "Stop. What is he talking about?" Words cannot fully do My Dad Wrote A Porno justice, you'll need to get your earphones in (for the love of god, make sure you're listening in private) and dive headfirst into the world of Belinda Blumenthal. You might want to be sick, but you won't regret it. My Dad Wrote A Porno is available wherever you get your podcasts.

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