Which type of story attracts the largest audience on Literotica?

[SebastianHolt]

I'm well aware of the love-hate relationship with the "Loving wife" category, but is that the biggest draw? I see a bunch of incest stories, but that does nothing for me as an author, let alone a reader (to each his or her kinks). Does group sex draw in a large reader base?

My mission is to write an MFM story, and once I get going, more stories will follow. While in real life I have been in a couple of threesomes, I'm trying to stay away from a cuckold type theme. Not that every MFM has to be a cuckold type story, but IRL those husbands were. Do you think an MFM story can stay clear of the cuckold theme and still attract readers?

BTW is there a top ten list for categories (what people read the most)?

 

[pink_silk_glove]

We figured this out just last week.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/most-popular-story-ever.1637252/

As for MFM, you may have issues with that. Yes, you can write a popular MFM story, no question, but you run the risk of turning off male readers. Many of them do not want to see two naked dicks in the same room. You can FMF (especially FmF!!) or FMFF, or FMFFFF, or add as many Fs as you want, but as soon as you introduce a second M, that's gay (to many guys) even if the two men never touch each other (other than a high-five) and these readers will nope right outta there faster than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs made from samurai swords.

 

[iwatchus]

BTW is there a top ten list for categories (what people read the most)?

This is a little dated now, but I suspect it has not changed qualitatively.

8letters chart

Ignoring Illustrated, which was always an odd category and essentially non-existent now, T/I is the top choice, followed by LW.

You want to write My Two Sons?

 

[Djmac1031]

incest.

next question?

 

[SebastianHolt]

We figured this out just last week.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/most-popular-story-ever.1637252/

As for MFM, you may have issues with that. Yes, you can write a popular MFM story, no question, but you run the risk of turning off male readers. Many of them do not want to see two naked dicks in the same room. You can FMF (especially FmF!!) or FMFF, or FMFFFF, or add as many Fs as you want, but as soon as you introduce a second M, that's gay (to many guys) even if the two men never touch each other (other than a high-five) and these readers will nope right outta there faster than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs made from samurai swords.

From my perspective, from real life, having an MFM was way easier than finding a female unicorn. BTW, what's the difference between FMF vs FmF? Is lowercase use for a submissive, underage, or ... ?

 

[OffNSFW]

Not speaking on sitewide trends and based solely on my own experience, speaking anecdotally and non-scientifically, going by what has surprised me the most with the level of enthusiasm and readership:

Gay stuff

 

[pink_silk_glove]

From my perspective, from real life, having an MFM was way easier than finding a female unicorn. BTW, what's the difference between FMF vs FmF? Is lowercase use for a submissive, underage, or ... ?

The litiverse does not reflect reality, so if you wan to please the widest largest audience, write a very boring blank space of a guy getting jumped by a slutty unicorn (or multiple slutty unicorns) for no reason other than she's horny and the guy happens to be within a half-mile.

However, if you have a story that you feel strongly to tell, you should write that story and place it where it might best find its audience. That is how I do it. How popular it gets you depends on how many readers share your kinks/ideas - not all that much more than that. That's just the nature of the beast.

As for FmF, yes it's just a submissive male - the more submissive, the more popular. The most common reader out there is a guy who dreams of magically getting laid. This reader does not care about your character development nor plot. He just wants to put himself in the shoes of the main male and pretend to get laid by magical confident slutty woman and the reason that she chooses him as her shag target is immaterial. And since the reader is inserting himself in to the main male, it is important to leave him as blank of a space as possible so as to not throw the reader out of the fantasy by replacing him with someone that might obviously not be.

Remember, it's a porn site above all else. I have an old friend who is a swinger. He and his wife have sex with other couples. They are exhibitionists and are in the lifestyle. He is an educated and highly intellectual guy and is very well read, far deeper than I am. I sent him a couple of my stories to read. He told me that I'm very good but he wasn't turned on. "Next time just give me Milf City!" he said. When he wants a deep read, he reads a regular novel. When he reads porn/erotica, he doesn't want any tension, he just wants naughty unicorns. If you don't give him naughty unicorns, he's bored.

It's all about the slut.

 

[djrip]

The litiverse does not reflect reality, so if you wan to please the widest largest audience, write a very boring blank space of a guy getting jumped by a slutty unicorn (or multiple slutty unicorns) for no reason other than she's horny and the guy happens to be within a half-mile.

However, if you have a story that you feel strongly to tell, you should write that story and place it where it might best find its audience. That is how I do it. How popular it gets you depends on how many readers share your kinks/ideas - not all that much more than that. That's just the nature of the beast.

As for FmF, yes it's just a submissive male - the more submissive, the more popular. The most common reader out there is a guy who dreams of magically getting laid. This reader does not care about your character development nor plot. He just wants to put himself in the shoes of the main male and pretend to get laid by magical confident slutty woman and the reason that she chooses him as her shag target is immaterial. And since the reader is inserting himself in to the main male, it is important to leave him as blank of a space as possible so as to not throw the reader out of the fantasy by replacing him with someone that might obviously not be.

Remember, it's a porn site above all else. I have an old friend who is a swinger. He and his wife have sex with other couples. They are exhibitionists and are in the lifestyle. He is an educated and highly intellectual guy and is very well read, far deeper than I am. I sent him a couple of my stories to read. He told me that I'm very good but he wasn't turned on. "Next time just give me Milf City!" he said. When he wants a deep read, he reads a regular novel. When he reads porn/erotica, he doesn't want any tension, he just wants naughty unicorns. If you don't give him naughty unicorns, he's bored.

It's all about the slut.

When I see an attractive woman, I often think, it would be nice to have sex with her. I don't for lots of reasons, from she wouldn't want to, to I'm in a relationship, to it's not the place for it, to we're both busy going about our days and don't know each other and have never spoken. IRL I care about her personality, the kind of person she is, and would want to get to know her, and might worry that if I had sex with a stranger there could be consequences like STDs or psycho drama or drug addiction or cleptomania or who knows what. But if all those reasons to not do it were swept away, say by being in a porn fantasy, then yes, I wouldn't need any more motivation to sleep with her than the fact that I find her attractive. Let's boil that down to, when just fantasizing, attraction is enough to go on for me, and I suspect the same is true for many if not all others, regardless of gender.

So I don't find it unrealistic to write women similarly, as people who get turned on by guys they find attractive, and need no more motivation than that to pursue those guys if they exist in a fantasy where the IRL factors that would inhibit them from just getting what they want from the guy don't exist.

Of course these inhibition free fantasy scenarios are not super true to real life. These strokerish stories are less focused on things some more realistic writers might find value in exploring like the characters' careers, friend drama, dealing with a chronic illness, dating and having problems with their dates, etc. Yes inhibition free sex motivated purely by mutual sexual desire and acted upon quickly is less realistic than building an acquaintance into a relationship. But I'm not sure the uninhibited woman, free from irl concerns and motivated by her sex drive, is so much more fantastical than the similarly uninhibited man. What's fantastical is the situation that they don't have any factors holding them back from each other.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Yes inhibition free sex motivated purely by mutual sexual desire and acted upon quickly is less realistic than building an acquaintance into a relationship. But I'm not sure the uninhibited woman, free from irl concerns and motivated by her sex drive, is so much more fantastical than the similarly uninhibited man. What's fantastical is the situation that they don't have any factors holding them back from each other.

The point that you are missing though, is that in these stories, the woman is always sexy, looks sexy, acts sexy, etc. The guy is not. So in the story we see plenty of reasons (as you state) why the guy would want to sleep with that woman, but we rarely get any reason at all why the woman would want to sleep with that particular guy. If she's that hot and is sexually confident and aggressive, why this schlub? That question is never answered, because that is not required for the fantasy. It is however required for a plausible plot motive.

I'm not judging the fantasy, I'm just breaking it down technically. And well, yea, if we're looking for some actual plausible plot and tension, there is none of it there. Not that we have to look for that but a handful of us do (and that's our problem).

 

[djrip]

The point that you are missing though, is that in these stories, the woman is always sexy, looks sexy, acts sexy, etc. The guy is not. So in the story we see plenty of reasons (as you state) why the guy would want to sleep with that woman, but we rarely get any reason at all why the woman would want to sleep with that particular guy. If she's that hot and is sexually confident and aggressive, why this schlub? That question is never answered, because that is not required for the fantasy. It is however required for a plausible plot motive.

I'm not judging the fantasy, I'm just breaking it down technically. And well, yea, if we're looking for some actual plausible plot and tension, there is none of it there. Not that we have to look for that but a handful of us do (and that's our problem).

I'm sure what you're describing happens in lots of stories- the guy is explicitly non attractive, the woman is super hot. Maybe a nerd gets the girl scenario. (But even that scenario could paint the nerd as awkward but sweet and endearing once something happens to let the girl see the true him or something.) But I think often, the guy is pov, so it just doesn't get into what he looks like. In a story like that, the fact that a woman is so into him tells me that he is in fact attractive.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

But I think often, the guy is pov, so it just doesn't get into what he looks like

Often that's exactly what it is. But Guy still doesn't do much if anything to be sexy in these stories. He just let's Slut continue pursuing him. Sometimes he will even resist, "No, this is wrong!" etc. There was one recently discussed in this forum where the female bombshell was simply a nympho and when she told him that she wanted him he actually spit out his drink, no suave smoothness, no back and forth, no nothing. He simply wins the fucking lottery. It's super common. It's the most common (non-)plot on lit.

Just insert your kink to fit the category. First time? Confident aggressive virgin chooses schlub to give her virginity to (and she will give it, he will not take it). Big boob fetish? heavy breasted woman comes onto boring blank space and will not stop until he has cum (they usually cum simultaneously because obviously he's the perfect lay).