New Age of Consent on Literotica: THIRTY

[baphemetis]

John broke their kiss and stared deeply into Cameron's eyes.

"You are the most beautiful 18-year-old consenting adult I have ever known," he said.

"I would never have done this if I were a cybernetic replica of a 17-year-old," she replied. "I am grateful to be modeled after an 18-year-old so I can give my full consent to sexual intercourse."

Yes, I added completely moronic wording like this to get my story about Terminator's John Connor to get it approved here on Literotica. The original story made no mention of their age and never implied that they were underage.

Thomas Dekker (John) was 20 when Terminator was made and Summer Glau is fucking 30 -- SHE'S THIRTY! Despite this, the powers-that-be chose to reject my story. I'm sorry this is just stupid. They're fictional, time traveling robots for crying out loud!

(Did I mention that she's thirty? As in "30 years old"?)

 

[BlknMild611]

Do you refer to her as a girl?

I had characters who could also be confused for minors (six hundred year old former vampires, shorter than five feet tall) so I made it a point to constantly refer to them as women.

 

[KillerMuffin]

John Connor (who is in the story, not Thomas Dekker) was 15 & 16 during the time frame you've set the story in.

That's what got the story rejected.

Now, if you'd written:

Thomas Dekker broke their kiss and stared deeply into Summer Glau's eyes (and so on), that'd be different because they're both over 18. John Connor, however, isn't.

You got this story approved? It'll be retroactively rejected when someone runs across it and does the FanMath.

 

[strapon_tales]

I had a story rejected for similar reasoning, but there's still a "Labyrinth" fanfiction floating around. (Jennifer Connelly was sixteen at the time the movie was released, so was probably fifteen during filming.)

 

[baphemetis]

John Connor (who is in the story, not Thomas Dekker) was 15 & 16 during the time frame you've set the story in.

How could you possibly know what time frame I've set the story in? It's a fictional alternative universe where John Connor reprogrammed Cameron to go back in time and have sex with him. It doesn't jive with the TV show. I can set the events to reoccur at any time frame I want.

I swear some people (not you personally KM) are just stupid about useless minutia. They're fictional characters. They can be any age you imagine. If you want to imagine them as 12, they're going to be 12 in your head. I think we need to worry less about what people think and pay more attention to what people *do*.

The story appears for free and unedited on other sites including my ASSTR site so it doesn't really matter if Lit runs it or not. But in my opinion, they're fucking idiots accomplishing a whole lot of nothing by sweating the small stuff. But hey, I'm biased.

 

[Auden James]

@ baphemetis

It's the simple question if you want to approve child porn or not: take a look at ASSTR where you even find toddler porn etcetera.

Besides your complain should be directed at Laurel and not at the SDC, for it isn't the place to discuss individual cases of alleged malpractice of Lit's submission policy.

 

[PacoFear]

How could you possibly know what time frame I've set the story in? It's a fictional alternative universe where John Connor reprogrammed Cameron to go back in time and have sex with him. It doesn't jive with the TV show. I can set the events to reoccur at any time frame I want.

I swear some people (not you personally KM) are just stupid about useless minutia. They're fictional characters. They can be any age you imagine. If you want to imagine them as 12, they're going to be 12 in your head. I think we need to worry less about what people think and pay more attention to what people *do*.

The story appears for free and unedited on other sites including my ASSTR site so it doesn't really matter if Lit runs it or not. But in my opinion, they're fucking idiots accomplishing a whole lot of nothing by sweating the small stuff. But hey, I'm biased.

Yep, you're a little biased.

There's a continuum of believability to be observed and it's been a Lit tradition for some time that "aging up" an otherwise underage fictional character represented hand-waving that was just a little too weak.

Of course, the best way to avoid these sorts of arbitrary decisions is simple -- do the work of creating your own characters rather than hijacking the fruits of someone else's honest effort.

See? I have my biases too.

-PF