Jul 6, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay found their inner artists with Filthy Strokes by Laura Victoria. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle stumbled upon some messy booksta-drama somewhere in…
Now, let's talk about a book where our main character's creations very much make her feel some type of way.
Okay? Well, this week we read Filthy Strokes by Laura Victoria.
And the synopsis says, Lexi only needed a paintbrush.
What she got was a man.
When she scrubs clean an old forgotten brush, it doesn't just sparkle, it stirs.
Outsteps once adored, too beautiful for his own good, until jealousy bound him in wood and bristles.
Now he's free in her hands, hungry to be touched, desperate to be loved, and determined to make Lexi his muse in every way.
Every stroke teases him closer to freedom, every kiss blurs the line between art and obsession.
And Lexi? She's about to learn just how messy a masterpiece can get.
Uh, where would you put this one on our smut scale? Two?
Yeah, I think so, too.
There's nothing...
I mean, there's rough sex, but it's not, like, particularly kinky.
It's not exceptionally rough.
And, like, I don't know, half of more than...
I don't know.
Half of this book, he's a paintbrush,
so... 75% of this book, he's a paintbrush.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We get like real man in like two chapters.
That's a little bit true.
That's a little bit true.
Were there any trigger warnings? There weren't any content notes at the start of the book.
No. Shower sex.
Now, let's talk about a book where our main character's creations very much make her feel some type of way.
Okay? Well, this week we read Filthy Strokes by Laura Victoria.
And the synopsis says, Lexi only needed a paintbrush.
What she got was a man.
When she scrubs clean an old forgotten brush, it doesn't just sparkle, it stirs.
Outsteps once adored, too beautiful for his own good, until jealousy bound him in wood and bristles.
Now he's free in her hands, hungry to be touched, desperate to be loved, and determined to make Lexi his muse in every way.
Every stroke teases him closer to freedom, every kiss blurs the line between art and obsession.
And Lexi? She's about to learn just how messy a masterpiece can get.
Uh, where would you put this one on our smut scale? Two?
Yeah, I think so, too.
There's nothing...
I mean, there's rough sex, but it's not, like, particularly kinky.
It's not exceptionally rough.
And, like, I don't know, half of more than...
I don't know.
Half of this book, he's a paintbrush,
so... 75% of this book, he's a paintbrush.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We get like real man in like two chapters.
That's a little bit true.
That's a little bit true.
Were there any trigger warnings? There weren't any content notes at the start of the book.
No. Shower sex.
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