First of all, yes, it would be self-censoring; I'd never even suggest doing it without the author's permission/approval.
I'm not sure writers would want to do that to their story (or have it done to them).
Definitely; again, author permission is necessary.
I'm not sure translation is the right analogy; it requires adaptation of a different kind, where it's still written word to written word. The difference in medium here matters, I think.
To be honest, though, the entire point is moot if it's just me who feels this way about podfic sex scenes. If the majority have no problem with it -- reading or writing -- then there's no reason to make such an adaptation anyway. Part of the reason I brought it up was also to see if there were others who felt the same way. I mean, I know that some do because I've talked to them, I just have no idea whether it's at all widespread.
And obviously, even if it is, that's not reason enough to change it; the reader has to want it too, and the author has to be okay with it. But I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that in some circumstances, all of those things would come together.
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I'm not sure writers would want to do that to their story (or have it done to them).
Definitely; again, author permission is necessary.
I'm not sure translation is the right analogy; it requires adaptation of a different kind, where it's still written word to written word. The difference in medium here matters, I think.
To be honest, though, the entire point is moot if it's just me who feels this way about podfic sex scenes. If the majority have no problem with it -- reading or writing -- then there's no reason to make such an adaptation anyway. Part of the reason I brought it up was also to see if there were others who felt the same way. I mean, I know that some do because I've talked to them, I just have no idea whether it's at all widespread.
And obviously, even if it is, that's not reason enough to change it; the reader has to want it too, and the author has to be okay with it. But I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that in some circumstances, all of those things would come together.