Class, Power, and Desire...Who Else Writes the Tension? 🇬🇧

[Innocent302]

Anyone else drawn to writing erotica that plays with British class dynamics?

Think E.M. Forster meets temptation: the servant who sees too much, the posh wife who wants control, the clever student tangled up with his benefactor. I love that quiet, charged space where status, restraint, and longing collide.

Is it upstairs/downstairs? Age gaps? Hidden affairs behind country house doors?

Would love to hear what dynamics you explore... or want to. Bonus points for a line or two from your work. Let’s stir the pot...

 

[Rob_Royale]

I did so in Velvet Collars but there's really no tension. It's a very free-love kind of world.

I have plans for something more along the lines of your idea, but haven't started it yet. That will be heavy on the tension, sort of a next generation sequel to Lady Chatterley's Lover

 

[KimAwakened]

If I want that, I'll read Wodehouse and apply my own imagination...

 

[Carnevil9]

As an American, the whole "British class dynamics" pretty much eludes me. Sure, we have "classes" in the USA, but they are primarily based on money, and anyone can move up (or down) the totem pole at any time, so the lines don't seem quite as important.

That said, I can see how they extra layer of "taboo" would make the tension more exquisite.

 

[PennyThompson]

@Actingup's What The Maid Saw played a little bit with this sort of idea, but in a more modern setting, an industry conference at a big hotel (the industry was erotica, of course). The class dynamics weren't the central core of that story, but it was definitely a welcome element!

Sure, we have "classes" in the USA, but they are primarily based on money, and anyone can move up (or down) the totem pole at any time, so the lines don't seem quite as important.

Hmm, I've known enough failsons and bad department leads who were handed soft landings that I have to disagree

 

[NuclearFairy]

As an American, the whole "British class dynamics" pretty much eludes me. Sure, we have "classes" in the USA, but they are primarily based on money, and anyone can move up (or down) the totem pole at any time, so the lines don't seem quite as important.

That said, I can see how they extra layer of "taboo" would make the tension more exquisite.

I've read enough reddit threads about not so rich dating people born into money in the US to disagree.

 

[Innocent302]

Thanks for the feedback! It's starting to feel like my particular niche in sexual fantasy might be even more taboo and harder to track down than I thought. I'm convinced we're a secret society for a reason! Trying to unearth content in this very specific, deliciously tense area is like searching for a sensible queue at Heathrow on a bank holiday.