Looking for guidance on categorizing stories focused on manipulation/gaslighting or humiliation.

[stephertoica13455]

I'm having real trouble figuring out where to categorize several of the stories I'm writing. I tend to prefer stories that are all focused on what I would call corruption. They tend to heavily feature themes of power dynamics, manipulation, gaslighting, etc. wherein a powerful woman changes slowly in a dramatic fashion--usually involving some humiliation along the way. That doesn't seem to be a category on lit, however, and i don't really feel like it fits neatly into mind control (which seems to be more like fantastical as opposed to realistic) or non-con (which seems to be physical coercion).

For example, I have a draft story about a superheroine who is objectified constantly for her body. She hates it until one day she undergoes an experience that awakens a latent submissive/exhibitionist side she didn't know what she had. The story explores how she gradually becomes turned on by the idea of being captured, dominated, humiliated, and exposed. I have no clue if that should be posted in exhibitionist/voyeur (because it will eventually feature her outfits changing), non/con (because she will get defeated in battle and tied up), or mind control (because she is corrupted by reading too much depraved online content).

Similarly, I have a story that I absolutely love that's about a brother and sister wherein the brother convinces her to help get his chess streams views by hanging out on camera. That escalates into her basically becoming a camgirl. It features the brother lusting after his sister, so it would obviously be incest/taboo, right? Except they don't have sex and that's not where I particularly want to go. I have them as brother and sister because of the power dynamic and how deliciously twisted it is that a brother would manipulate his own sister just to become internet famous. I feel like if i put it in incest people will be pissed that there's no sex, whereas if i put it in another category people will be like eww incest. Sigh.

Any assistance would be welcome!

 

[Bamagan]

I'm having real trouble figuring out where to categorize several of the stories I'm writing. I tend to prefer stories that are all focused on what I would call corruption. They tend to heavily feature themes of power dynamics, manipulation, gaslighting, etc. wherein a powerful woman changes slowly in a dramatic fashion--usually involving some humiliation along the way. That doesn't seem to be a category on lit, however, and i don't really feel like it fits neatly into mind control (which seems to be more like fantastical as opposed to realistic) or non-con (which seems to be physical coercion).

For example, I have a draft story about a superheroine who is objectified constantly for her body. She hates it until one day she undergoes an experience that awakens a latent submissive/exhibitionist side she didn't know what she had. The story explores how she gradually becomes turned on by the idea of being captured, dominated, humiliated, and exposed. I have no clue if that should be posted in exhibitionist/voyeur (because it will eventually feature her outfits changing), non/con (because she will get defeated in battle and tied up), or mind control (because she is corrupted by reading too much depraved online content).

Similarly, I have a story that I absolutely love that's about a brother and sister wherein the brother convinces her to help get his chess streams views by hanging out on camera. That escalates into her basically becoming a camgirl. It features the brother lusting after his sister, so it would obviously be incest/taboo, right? Except they don't have sex and that's not where I particularly want to go. I have them as brother and sister because of the power dynamic and how deliciously twisted it is that a brother would manipulate his own sister just to become internet famous. I feel like if i put it in incest people will be pissed that there's no sex, whereas if i put it in another category people will be like eww incest. Sigh.

Any assistance would be welcome!

Reluctance/Nonconsent is probably your best bet for most of them, with the stress on the Reluctance. It's definitely not a category just for physical coercion, and there are other stories there that are similar to the ones you described. At any rate, for stories involving humiliation and corruption, the readers there will probably be more interested than in most other categories. Mind Control readers are also generally favorable to such kinks, although they sometimes dislike control that is 'too real' for the genre.
The superheroine might also go in SciFi/Fantasy. Fetish is an option for all of them.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Superhero, scifi/fantasy

Bro/sis is still T, but might fit it E/V

 

[TheWritingGroup]

If you wrote it that way, you could actually put it in Mind Control. Is the brother being so manipulative that he actually changes his sister's personality and sense of identity?

--Annie

 

[stephertoica13455]

Reluctance/Nonconsent is probably your best bet for most of them, with the stress on the Reluctance. It's definitely not a category just for physical coercion, and there are other stories there that are similar to the ones you described. At any rate, for stories involving humiliation and corruption, the readers there will probably be more interested than in most other categories. Mind Control readers are also generally favorable to such kinks, although they sometimes dislike control that is 'too real' for the genre.
The superheroine might also go in SciFi/Fantasy. Fetish is an option for all of them.

Thank you so much for the feedback!