Humor in erotic stories

[WeShallUnclench]

What kind of humor do you like to see in erotic stories?

Can you name specific examples?

This goes especially for women here (given that classic tropes like "boy running into girl while she is changing" tend to be very male-centric) - what are the type of outrageous situations in fiction you'd find fun, rather than grating?

For me, I really don't care for things like "breasts accidentally groped" type of slapstick. I am more on the side of escalating spirals of chaos, weird character dynamics, dark humor especially on the sadistic side.

 

[SimonDoom]

I did a thread on this topic a few months ago.

People are all over the map on this one. I enjoy humor in erotica and have made an attempt at several humorous stories. I think sex is a great subject for humor because it's an area of life that so often exposes people's weaknesses, petty qualities, jealousies, hypocrisy, etc. My sense of humor is rather twisted and sometimes dark.

I've written stories that:

-- lampoon the nutty and obnoxious aspects of comments that stories receive here
-- through the use of a fake tandem story, made fun of contrasting attitudes about cuckolding
-- portray people in sexual activiites that are so absurd and over the top as to be (to me, anyway) humorous, like Mom, You're A Hucow! and Teddy Bear.
--use sexual fetishes, like exhibitionism, to satirize a serious concept like the Americans with Disabilities Act.
-- parody loving wives stories

Some of my exhibitionist stories are more whimsical than funny, like A Bikini With A Mind Of Its Own.

 

[StillStunned]

Some of my stories have situations that I find funny, but mostly situational. Chapter 3 of The Rivals, for instance, has a scene where one of the characters is trying to dislodge a creature from inside her skull during sex, so she's snorting out snot until it shoots out.

The only story that I deliberately set out to write as humorous, however, is One Orgasm At A Time 01. It's a silly premise, and the Three Aspects of Orgasm are completely over the top. There's nothing subtle about it: you either enjoy it, or you don't.

 

[SimonDoom]

Link to the other thread, if you are curious: https://forum.literotica.com/threads/humor-and-erotica.1616604/#post-99397942

 

[Privates1stClass]

I tend to favor humor in stories I write. After all, shouldn't sex be fun? So I've put some of my main characters in absurd, humorous situations as my stories unfold. In Chapter 1 of my Lucky Beyond Belief series, my main character, Mike, visits his girlfriend's parents over the Thanksgiving weekend. He learns his girlfriend's family are all nudists. That puts him in various humorous situations he's never before encountered.
https://www.literotica.com/s/lucky-beyond-belief-ch-01

 

[Lifestyle66]

I've written several humorous stories posted here.

One of the first was a poke at the Loving Wives trolls, with "A Gathering of Trolls", "Ambitious friends look in on the slut and her husband."

Another one was a poke at us authors getting too close to our characters with "Getting Too Close - 750 Words", "Sometimes writers just need a break."

Then I threw another 750-word one into Loving Wives just to jerk their chains with "Chasing Her in the Wild", "The cock-tease deserves to be treated like an animal!"

 

[THBGato]

This strikes me as an odd question. Surely if something is funny, then it's funny? It might be farcical, or witty, or a sight gag: I don't see why it being in erotica means certain types of humour are more desirable than others.

New writer @PennyThompson has a talent for farce, as does @WaxPhilosophic while @FeatherWatt is, to my mind, the funniest writer I've read here.

 

[Hypnobitch01]

I mean my story Bessie’s New Job is pretty ridiculous…

 

[RetroFan]

What kind of humor do you like to see in erotic stories?

Can you name specific examples?

This goes especially for women here (given that classic tropes like "boy running into girl while she is changing" tend to be very male-centric) - what are the type of outrageous situations in fiction you'd find fun, rather than grating?

For me, I really don't care for things like "breasts accidentally groped" type of slapstick. I am more on the side of escalating spirals of chaos, weird character dynamics, dark humor especially on the sadistic side.

I use all sorts of humour in my stories. One thing I particularly like is sexual misunderstandings. For example in one of my stories characters called Travis (a New Zealander) and Kate (American) are getting down to business and talking dirty during foreplay. Travis says to Kate that he 'Wants to fuck her fanny' but of course as fanny means vagina in New Zealand and bottom in the USA, Kate thinks Travis wants to perform anal sex on her and freaks somewhat, until the misunderstanding is straightened out.

A more recent story I wrote was set mostly at a chaotic early 1970s music festival, and in one scenes a bad-tempered and arrogant Russian man and his wife come racing in searching for their 19 and 18-year-old daughters, who lied about where they were going for the long weekend. While the father is going off his head at the two girls, one of the hippie guys in the group attempts to calm the man down. He tries to shake his hand and says to the irate father, "Hi, I'm Dick ..." to which the man immediately punches him in the head and yells, "You foul-mouth American kid, you use bad word for penis in front of my wife ..."

You can find many different types of comedy in my stories - double entendre, slapstick, kafka komedy, misunderstandings, farce, faux pas, gross-out scenes, dark humour, shock comedy - and I love writing all of them.

But as I've said before, possibly the most amusing thing I've found on Literotica is how totally humourless some of the Incest Taboo readers are.

 

[Bazzle]

I try and put humour in. It might not be appreciated. But there is a level of mad Mr Bean type acting in most of my stories.

 

[TheLobster]

But as I've said before, possibly the most amusing thing I've found on Literotica is how totally humourless some of the Incest Taboo readers are.

It’s probably my least favorite feature of the category. I’ve snuck some satire into my I/T stories, and a whole lot of absurd, but I suspect the main reason those attempts worked is that it flew over many readers’ heads.

 

[RetroFan]

It’s probably my least favorite feature of the category. I’ve snuck some satire into my I/T stories, and a whole lot of absurd, but I suspect the main reason those attempts worked is that it flew over many readers’ heads.

I've had comedy miss the mark in other categories too, but in IT I've had openly antagonistic responses to comedic stories. For example my story 'Tonya, Tiffany & the Twins' is set in 1989, and a slacker, surfer-dude comedy similar in content and structure to these types of movies made in the late 80s and early 90s minus the incest of course. The IT fans were neither impressed nor amused, hating both the story and me for having the audacity to write and post it.

 

[Pabiporffor]

Sex isn't funny, people are funny. Or to be more specific their attitudes towards sex. We tend to laugh at things which reflect our own experiences, we like to know we're not alone in our failings.

That's why I think it's important not to go down the mocking route, no one wants their kink/fetish ridiculed. Instead focus on our fears, how do men feel when they suggest they introduce pegging to the bedroom? How does that virgin feel when going down only to be faced with a thick bush? That moment you've realised you've woken your parents up, or the moment you wake your parents up and dad has to explain to mum why he's got a stiffy.

Moments we all share because end of the day sex is scary and dangerous. You're naked and vulnerable yet choose to partake not in the safety of the public gaze but hidden away from view. Without a little humour to dampen the fear how the fuck would I get men into my sex dungeon.

 

[Naughtylit81]

When I try to add humor into my writing it is mainly in the form of banter between characters.

I love linguistic tricks and turns of phrase and try to include that with in the dynamic between my main characters.

 

[Billintulsa]

In one story I wrote of a girl giving me head while I was driving down a side road. The line was something to the effect of, "I was driving an automatic, and she was driving stick."

 

[Lotus_Kitty]

I enjoy situations where some stereotypically tall, dark, handsome, broody guy and female lead character are about to get physical when he does something adorkably klutzy or unexpectedly goofy. The sexual tension is building, they are about to kiss or canoodle for The First Time, half the book has been a slow burn buildup to this moment, and then bam, goofy or klutzy. My favorite example is from the early Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter books (before they got awful). Anita is in the bath, tall dark broody vampire is bringing her towels. He sits on the edge of the tub, offers to wash her back or something, the sexual tension is so thick you could slice it, he leans in... and falls in the bathtub. Such humor really adds to the story for me. I like characters that are believable, rounded, not stereotypically stoic or broody or whatever all the time.

 

[Lotus_Kitty]

Regarding the OPs original post, I do indeed dislike the examples provided because they're all boundary violations.

I do like verbal humor quite a bit, dry British wit is a great example. Insulting villians without the villians realizing they're being insulted. I suppose in erotic stories, the abductee in a non-con story telling their captor off and getting away with it because it goes right over the captor's head. Or a better example, two horny young people being chaperoned by Stuffy Elder Lady Trope Exemplar having to express their steamy desires without alerting her to what they're discussing. Accidental innuendo that doesn't harass anyone is also a favorite.

 

[WeShallUnclench]

Regarding the OPs original post, I do indeed dislike the examples provided because they're all boundary violations.

One theory of humor I find plausible is that "benign violation" theory. With the idea being, we laugh about things that hit just the right combination of scary, absurd but ultimately harmless or even pleasant (to us).

That of course really opens up big individual and group differences, because some violations may very much not feel as "benign" to you as they do to the author.

 

[Flybynite1892]

I think - I hope - I've gotten more light-hearted in the year I've been here. I think I started out writing from a bleaker place as someone who was pretty into some harsh kinks, and I think those earlier stories were darker and crueler than anything I'd work on now, but I think I still needed to write them. I don't think they crossed lines - and I wrote author notes really trying to stress, as much as I could, that this was fantasy and not real life - but I think writing has helped me figure some stuff out.

I think my favorite style of humor in art - not just here - is stuff that is self-consciously over-the-top. I tried to do a Western femdom thing and just load it up with Western tropes that I thought were both ridiculous and fun and hopefully recognizable to the reader. I really like when an artist is overdoing it in a self-aware way, I guess.

I think that's why I thought the @SimonDoom Loving Wives story was so goddamn funny: it knew exactly where the line was, and it lived there.

 

[yowser]

Humor is hard to write and usually gets worse the more you work at it. Sex everyone thinks they can write, but it's not so easy either.

I have no idea what to make of this data, but of the nearly 100 stories in my catalog, my only category with a 100 percent Scarlet H rating (not including one category entries with H's, which could just be luck) is Humor and Satire, a fairly untraveled corner.

EDIT: Ha! Serves me right for using an older spreadsheet. My last three H&S entries fall short, so I'm only half funny (and none recently.) Apologies...

 

[RetroFan]

Humour is also good if you are writing a serious story with heavy themes and you want to lighten things for your reader, although like with all comedy timing is essential here.

For example my story 'April Leads Julie Astray', set in the early 1960s, is a serious story about two girls who at age 18, struggle with traumatic traumatic childhood experiences. To lighten the story, there is a character called Billy, a fat, bumbling, unintelligent but completely harmless 19-year-old guy who has a huge crush on Julie, who is the local Reverend's daughter. Billy's attempts to chat to the object of his affections never go well although Julie is always polite in response, even though he usually embarrasses her.

Billy, along with his father and a senile old guy also attempt an innovative solution for the electricity supplies for the church fete - an extensive network of extension leads and double adaptors all plugged in together and connected to a single outlet in the church lobby - before a qualified electrician thankfully puts a stop to this. There's also Julie's own naive nature reflecting the different and more innocent times when the story is set that adds to the situational humour. For example, Billy and his parents have lunch with Julie, her parents and her younger brother one day, and Julie is puzzled why Billy spent so much time in the back garden during the visit. She is still unable to work out an answer for this as she goes into the back garden and unpegs her panties from the washing line and puts them in the basket.

 

[MadeleineSinha]

I’ve had lots of comments on the humour in my stories, in a positive way.
It’s not something I’ve consciously tried to include, and when I’ve tried to write a deliberately light hearted humorous story it went so badly that I took it down after a week.
Not particularly insightful I know but laughter and humour are a big part of my life and maybe it’s the classic ‘write what you know’. That said of my two highest rated stories one involves time travel and ghostly possession and the other involved quantum mechanics and inter-dimensional transference and I can honestly say I have no experience of any of those elements, so what do I know?

 

[Agent0069]

Tyrone glanced back, but I kept my eyes forward.

"We lost them?"

"Horny single women are within hundred steps! Approaching rapidly!"

"FUCK!"

"That's all they want!"

Yeah, I’m physically unable to write a story without some sort of joke in it, but I like this one the most.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I always have some kinda humor. I at least find it amusing, not sure if other people do. I have an incest story where the mom and son are about to have sex, while his cousin is over. Mom offers her a dildo to use, and she declined. Eventually she got horny listening, and ran in there for it. Shortly after, they see her run past the bedroom, yelling that she needs a towel, because she squirts.

Usually it's some snarky comment, or banter.

In a novel I wrote, there's an afternoon scene, after a drunken groupsex thing. A girl is laying between the couple who starts sexy banter, half asleep. The guys trans girlfriend eggs him to fuck her, but he slips it in the girl by mistake. The girlfriend says along the line of "C'mon, gimme that dick already," and he basically said "don't act like you don't feel it." She woke up and turned around to find her wide eyed with her boyfriend fucking her in the ass, half sleep. She ask her if he was and she nodded, then asked if she wanted her to stop him, she said, "no, it's too late, and it feels good." When he did wake up, he flipped out and fell out of the bed as they laughed at him.

 

[dmallord]

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