Hmm, how about this: Smarm=emotional PWP, but emotional PWP=/=smarm -- like detective novel=mystery, but mystery=/=detective novel. Smarm can be simply and easily described as an emotional PWP, but it's not the only thing that can be described that way, because those are not its only defining traits (it's also gen, h/c, and possibly limited to a particular fandom and fannish time period, among other things). You can have an emotional PWP that doesn't have those other traits (it could also be slash, say, just with the focus on the emotions rather than the sex).
And I think that emotional PWP is only one subset of emoporn anyway, because the element that really defines emoporn (for me) is its unchecked and over-the-top emotion, and that can occur in any kind of story, whether or not it's the ostensible point of the plot.
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Date: 2008-10-07 04:36 am (UTC)And I think that emotional PWP is only one subset of emoporn anyway, because the element that really defines emoporn (for me) is its unchecked and over-the-top emotion, and that can occur in any kind of story, whether or not it's the ostensible point of the plot.