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What makes a story a “stroker”?

I only write ‘strokers’. My whole writing attitude is ‘would someone jack off to this’.

I would say a stroker is a story that is all about the sex. The rest of the story is the build up to the sex.

All my stories describe the relationship between the people and then the climax (intended) of the story being the sex.
 
I just submitted a stroker. To me it's an arousing scene without a leading or supporting story explicitly laid out around it.

The one I submitted is just sex and emotion, no deep dive into the characters, how they met, or why they're fucking, just a playful 3k word sex scene.
 
There are stories about sex and then are stories where characters have life and have sex. First ones seem to do best in here, although personal favorites are latter.
 
PennyThompson said:
I dunno about that, some of the best diddlers have no men in them at all 😅
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Maybe this is a regional thing or depending on who you hang around with, but diddler to me means a child molester.

Also in dart leagues you 'diddle' to see who goes first, each person throwing at the bull and closest to center wins "Diddle for the middle"

I understand the context in which you're using it, but it just shows how different people interpret slang in different ways.
 
lovecraft68 said:
Maybe this is a regional thing or depending on who you hang around with, but diddler to me means a child molester.
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After P.Diddy’s CSA case was publicized, I’d say that’s how everyone should read it now (due to the obvious “P.Diddler”) and using it in more benign contexts is risky to say the least.
 
I searched for stories with the tag "stroker" and got 11 hits. That seemed odd. It shows up so much here in AH. How come more authors aren't using it as a tag? You'd think it would be one of the most useful.
 
AG31 said:
I searched for stories with the tag "stroker" and got 11 hits. That seemed odd. It shows up so much here in AH. How come more authors aren't using it as a tag? You'd think it would be one of the most useful.
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It would be like tagging your story with the words "porn" or "erotica". A bit pointless.
 
ElectricBlue said:
It would be like tagging your story with the words "porn" or "erotica". A bit pointless.
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Not at all!!! The conversations on Lit make it vividly clear that some stories here are "strokers" and some are not. I'd think a reader would be happy to know up front where a story lies.
 
AG31 said:
I searched for stories with the tag "stroker" and got 11 hits. That seemed odd. It shows up so much here in AH. How come more authors aren't using it as a tag? You'd think it would be one of the most useful.
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I got eleven pages of results for stories with "stroker" in the title and description, and fourteen stories tagged with "stroker", but the point is made. By contrast, searching for "slow burn" produces 774 pages of results with "slow burn" in the title and description and twenty-four pages of results tagged with "slow burn".

I think there's more than one reason. Like EB said, lots of stories are strokers so it seems unnecessary and probably unproductive to tag them that way. But then, there are 139 pages of stories with "story" in the tags and 5758 pages of stories with "story" in the title or description. If any one word seemed superfluous, it would be "story."

Another reason might be that "stroker" is a judgement call. A stroker for one reader may not be for another, and tagging something that way begs readers who disagree to use their votes to express their opinion.

Another possibility is that a lot of writers don't regard "stroker" as a positive term.
 
NotWise said:
I got eleven pages of results for stories with "stroker" in the title and description, and fourteen stories tagged with "stroker", but the point is made.
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You're right, it's not an important difference, but I'm curious. This is what I get when I search for "stroker" in the tag portal. Can you see what's different for you?
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AG31 said:
Not at all!!! The conversations on Lit make it vividly clear that some stories here are "strokers" and some are not. I'd think a reader would be happy to know up front where a story lies.
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I think it's an authors' artifice. There's no reason to believe readers use the term when looking for stories. In any event, they're only going to find the eleven you found, so it barely registers on the dial. Remember also that it's authors who select tags, not readers, so it's a most uncommon term, given the tiny list that you've found.
 
AG31 said:
You're right, it's not an important difference, but I'm curious. This is what I get when I search for "stroker" in the tag portal. Can you see what's different for you?
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I used the search page and searched tags for "stroker." The fourteen stories it returned were the 11 it gave you plus two audios by DrStoney and a BDSM tale by BelleCanzuto. So maybe the tags portal doesn't return audios. The tag on BC's story was "bdsm stroker" rather than just "stroker."
 
AG31 said:
Not at all!!! The conversations on Lit make it vividly clear that some stories here are "strokers" and some are not. I'd think a reader would be happy to know up front where a story lies.
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I don't think readers use the expression at all - unless they're also authors and they're also AH regulars.
 
There aren’t many stories tagged “stroker” because it’s the default. In contrast, you have plenty of stories filed under “plot”, or “porn with plot,” or similar.
 
I've not commented on this thread, it seems.

I see 'stroker' as a story designed to appeal to men, to accompany a favourite activity. Fairly short, easy to understand, doesn't require extra thought. Generally repeating the man's fantasy back at him.

There are short stories designed to help women get off, but I don't see so many of them (especially on Lit), and I wouldn't think of calling them strokers. I do wonder how many men actually read and stroke simultaneously, vs reading and then stroking, partly to ensure no liquid gets near a keyboard...
 
Kumquatqueen said:
I see 'stroker' as a story designed to appeal to men, to accompany a favourite activity. Fairly short, easy to understand, doesn't require extra thought. Generally repeating the man's fantasy back at him.

There are short stories designed to help women get off, but I don't see so many of them (especially on Lit), and I wouldn't think of calling them strokers.
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I get positive comments from women on my strokers. Mostly for my voyeur stories. I think that a well-crafted stroker can appeal to any gender.
 
Hmmmmm.... okay, this probably gonna get me cut down but here goes;
I joined Lit in 2019. I joined with the sole intention of coming here to read "stories with sex". I get easily ultra bored with vids and "photo shoots". It wasn't until nine months back that I first submitted a piece.

I came here to read and what I found to read were two very different styles of story.

1- SEX, SEX and nothing but SEX. Um, no, not really thanks. I'm sure they're very good for their genre but not for my entertainment.

2- Stories with strong plot, good characters and settings with sex thrown in as a treat. Way more my style but, as far as it goes, no stroking. I have my imagination and past experiences for that.

Does that make me a "stroker virgin" here? ROFL, should I intervene urgently?
Deepest respects,
D.
 
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