Underage Character

I have been exploring a really hot fantasy lately, not particularly original, and am considering using it as a basis for a story. It involves a 30-something woman, recalling her experience as a 15-year old girl witnessing her mother being roughly fucked by the handyman. The daughter plays no part in the sexual activity, other than as a voyeur, and the mother and her lover have no idea she is watching. Of course, the woman would recount the feelings and arousal she had as she watched her mother driven to lust and ecstasy. Would this pass?

-EvH

As far I know, no. I have no authority to claim that, just very interested following of all and any discussions about this during the past year or two (and it's recurring topic), and the only person whose opinion counts is Laurel (who is the sole person vetting the submissions), but she apparently errs on the side of caution, and is very very very very very strict on not allowing anything that can be construed as underage. Including descriptions that don't seem mature enough even despite claims of formal age.

Voyeur is a sexual activity, a character under 18 is present during sexual activity. (Btw, as far Lit is considered, even plain nudity counts as sexual activity, so no nudism until 18 years old either (what of course is borderline absurd)).

The only thing that may possibly pass is brief, uninvolved reporting of a plain fact without illustration.

"At fifteen she saw mother having sex, and lost her virginity the next year. Now she's eighteen, and her story starts here."

Anything more than the first sentence, any expansion, illustration, explanation of it, any reminiscence of those events, anything at all sexual before the magic date will be rejected.

If the age of a character is definitive for the story, there's other sites that accept characters as young as thirteen, and probably some more that have no restrictions whatsoever. Here, the rules are very strict on this.

LupusDei is right - voyeurism is the sexual activity to consider if you have an under-eighteen character doing the looking. It doesn't matter how old the lookees are.

The way you're describing the story, no.

Here's the official policy:
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Originally Posted by Laurel in 2012

Hi writers!

For clarification and future reference: we do allow characters under the age of 18 in stories. What we don't allow are stories in which characters under the age of 18 are involved in sexual situations. This includes as voyeurs, as the object of a voyeur, masturbation, having sexual thoughts, and so on.

We do allow references to past activity in stories so long as it is not explicit. For example, an adult character referencing his or her history - "I lost my virginity when I was 15" - is fine. Explicit and/or salacious details are not.

These are not new rules nor have our content rules changed in many years...[remainder deleted as not relevant to this question and to save space]

the rules get violated ALOT on here.

I read a story in the last two months that featured underage kids, like 14-16 watching first the boys mother masturbate, then the boys mother and father fucking on the washing machine.

They had been sent home to remind the boys mother to bring a specific item for lunch. And had thought to give the boys mom a scare. Later in that day, the boy and girl watch their mothers having sex with each other.

Two violations of "rules set in stone concerning underage charecters?

Pretty sure it wouldn't pass.

Pocketshaver said:

the rules get violated ALOT on here.

I read a story in the last two months that featured underage kids, like 14-16 watching first the boys mother masturbate, then the boys mother and father fucking on the washing machine.

They had been sent home to remind the boys mother to bring a specific item for lunch. And had thought to give the boys mom a scare. Later in that day, the boy and girl watch their mothers having sex with each other.

Two violations of "rules set in stone concerning underage charecters?

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Yes, some underage content gets through. I'll paste the entire content of Laurel's post which touches on that. The way to help is via the "Report This Story" button. It also includes a way for an author to clarify his/her story in the case of an overly strict reading resulting in a rejected story. But, the criteria are set in stone and very clear.
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Originally Posted by Laurel

Hi writers!

For clarification and future reference: we do allow characters under the age of 18 in stories. What we don't allow are stories in which characters under the age of 18 are involved in sexual situations. This includes as voyeurs, as the object of a voyeur, masturbation, having sexual thoughts, and so on.

We do allow references to past activity in stories so long as it is not explicit. For example, an adult character referencing his or her history - "I lost my virginity when I was 15" - is fine. Explicit and/or salacious details are not.

These are not new rules nor have our content rules changed in many years.

As far as things slipping through: one thing to realize is that the stories are not approved by a robot or script. They are approved by human eyes, which tire easily as I age. Every story must be formatted; tags, title, and description checked; and skimmed for content issues. The daily update takes hours. If I could find a way to do all this properly with a script, I would. But in the last 12+ years, the only way to do things right is to do it by hand, so to speak.

Mistakes happen. The site has been on a huge growth streak in the past year, with readership & unique visitors up nearly 20%. This means a corresponding growth in submissions. We want to post stories to the site as quickly as possible for you authors. We also want to make sure that the updates are as top-quality as they can be - with a minimum of formatting errors and no forbidden content inadvertently posted. Thorough checking of stories and timely posting is a balance we will continue to work to get right.

I'd like to be able to read every story through, but I can't. Reading 100+ stories/novels a night - much less formatting, tagging, etc. - is just not possible. So, if while skimming I see something that sends up a red flag and further reading doesn't clarify things, I often send it back to the author. If I stopped and read through each novel we receive to check on whether an underage character is sexually active at any point, I would be even further behind than I already am.

When a story is sent back to you for any reason, this is not a final rejection and it is not meant to be taken personally. This just means we have issues or questions. You are free to resubmit either with corrections - or, if you think we're wrong, an explanation of why we're wrong in the NOTES field.

If you believe your story was rejected in error, please open the submission, respond to the rejection in the NOTES field of the submission, and hit SUBMIT. Please do not add the word EDITED to the title, as that denotes someone editing an already approved story. Since we process all edits after the new stories are posted, adding the word EDITED to a title will cause a delay in the posting of your new story. If you are submitting an edit of a rejected story, simply open the rejected form, make the changes in that form, and hit SUBMIT. Do not start a new submission.

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me anytime. PMs are faster than emails.

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