How do you keep your underage kids away from your writings?

[StillStunned]

My cat is a male. He'd totally be into NC/R fantasies if he could read.
He's into a big fan of pussy, I bet.

The closest I've ever come to a threesome was when the wife and I were getting physical and our kitten jumped onto my back and went to sleep.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

I think there’s a big difference between discovering a playboy hidden in your dad’s t-shirt drawer and finding out he writes stories about incestuous siblings with graphic descriptions of kinky sex.
Yes. Kids will discover sex and other adult themes on their own, usually because they’ve gone looking for it. That means at some level they are prepared to deal with it. Having your 9 year old stumble across a BDSM story you’re reading or writing is a whole other level of therapy.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Were you not exposed to filth in your childhood? It's not realistic to keep children safe from the world. Did your parents protect you from every inappropriate situation or did you have. To learn to become braver ???

I understand your idea... but I write stories that it would be (literally) criminal to let a child read. More than smut, my stories have super unrealistic depictions of non-consensual sex. If that was a kid's first exposure to sex... fucking hell.

I feel like my stories could do serious harm to a child's mind, confusing them about the true nature of healthy relationships.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

The closest I've ever come to a threesome was when the wife and I were getting physical and our kitten jumped onto my back and went to sleep.

Your profile picture makes me think you might have been into that feline inclusion

 

[StillStunned]

Your profile picture makes me think you might have been into that feline inclusion

Well, it was totally adorable, if slightly frustrating at the time.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Password on my computer. But you know, he isn't four yet, so it's not much of a challenge to keep him from reading it.

 

[onehitwanda]

local files get synced to proton drive after each session and then rodded from orbit. The paranoia approach, accept no substitute.

I do not trust my cats at all.

 

[EdgySubMic]

I'm bringing back this thread from the grave, because I'm curious if people's methods have changed. Also I can't get enough of this joke I made the last time we all discussed this topic.
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Anyway, the only thing that has changed for me is that now my son loves to snuggle against his mommy while I write. I know he can't read yet, but it still makes me uneasy to let him look at the screen while I type

Be careful. When I was in first grade, I somehow taught my 18 months younger sister how to read...

 

[SimonDoom]

I do not trust my cats at all.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Cats are the bomb!

 

[NuclearFairy]

It's sadly easy since my kids hate to read. I was like that as a child myself though. I was all, "Ugg, words are confusing and hard. Let me get back to my math!" And then at some point after twelve I was more like, "Math is so easy and boring, alright hand that book over." Sooo, I should probably start thinking up countermeasures myself then, since my eldest is approaching such an age.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Password on my computer. But you know, he isn't four yet, so it's not much of a challenge to keep him from reading it.

Just warning you - one of mine learnt how to spell their and their siblings names, and to type them on a keyboard with all the letters rubbed off, by running up and down stairs to see where each letter was on another keyboard, in order to play Minecraft, age 3...

Kept the kid entertained and exercised for a good hour, every time they wanted to log in, though. Followed by generating shedloads of animals and asking me how to spell their names, which again meant galloping up and down stairs. Why yes, a 3yo can produce 50 square pigs called variations of Pinky, Pinky and Grunty.

At four, same kid told me what the spouse's phone PIN was, and his usual password.

So I recommend thinking about security earlier rather than later, though at least I can still simply say a story contains 'kissing' and it'll be deemed 'boring'...

 

[MillieDynamite]

@Kumquatqueen I use a word he doesn't know and wouldn't be able to spell if he knew it (it isn't English)... Porque estoy loco, no estúpido.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

@Kumquatqueen I use a word he doesn't know and wouldn't be able to spell if he knew it (it isn't English)... Porque estoy loco, no estúpido.

"¿Cómo se dice nariz en inglés?"

"No se."

"Si, 'Nose'."

 

[ElectricBlue]

"¿Cómo se dice nariz en inglés?"

"No se."

"Si, 'Nose'."

You know the answer. Runes, but never show the kid rocks.

 

[Orcwords]

While my youngest is 23, I do have a 15-year-old adopted grandson living at home and I follow the same technique with him as we did with all the children: put them on a separate computer. He uses my old Windows laptop that doesn't have anything I don't want him to see on it. As for the cats, my only suggestion is to avoid Linux and you should be good. For some reason, I've had multiple cats that have gotten into various computers and done weird things like fill the desktop with folders and try to book hotel rooms in Kuala Lumpur--but only when the computer in question was running Linux. They don't care about MacOS or Windows.

 

[lovecraft68]

My PC has a password....not exactly difficult.

 

[EdgySubMic]

While my youngest is 23, I do have a 15-year-old adopted grandson living at home and I follow the same technique with him as we did with all the children: put them on a separate computer. He uses my old Windows laptop that doesn't have anything I don't want him to see on it. As for the cats, my only suggestion is to avoid Linux and you should be good. For some reason, I've had multiple cats that have gotten into various computers and done weird things like fill the desktop with folders and try to book hotel rooms in Kuala Lumpur--but only when the computer in question was running Linux. They don't care about MacOS or Windows.

Cats instinctively know what's good and what to stay away from.

 

[TheLobster]

As for the cats, my only suggestion is to avoid Linux and you should be good.

Felines should definitely be kept away for Linux systems. After all, one of the basic and most powerful commands there is literally cat.

 

[StillStunned]

People, if you want to keep cats away from your computer, just get rid of the mouse.

 

[Erozetta]

I got my cat her own laptop. The decoy works as long as I reach over and try to touch it every now and then.