Expansion

[BB47]

Quick question.. why isn't there an expansion story category?

I simply refuse to believe that breast expansion, penis expansion, inflation, and all the other types of body expansion are not a prevalent enough trope to not garner their own division.

Agree or disagree?

 

[sr71plt]

Well, certainly. And a separate one on piercings and one on tattoos and one on toe jam and one on . . . (But by all means have none on bi and only one each on all aspects of lesbian and gay.)

 

[TxRad]

First of all, welcome to Lit.

Second of all, we've got what we've got and that seems to be the end of it.

Ideas for breaking up Loving wives into three categories come and go.

Most people say the Gay and Lesbian sections need to be broken down into another half dozen categories.

Then there are all the fetishes that need their own category.

So, you are adding this to an already rather long list that hasn't changed in the years I've been here and I don't expect it to change in the future.

 

[Handley_Page]

Quick question.. why isn't there an expansion story category?

I simply refuse to believe that breast expansion, penis expansion, inflation, and all the other types of body expansion are not a prevalent enough trope to not garner their own division.

Agree or disagree?

disagree.
It is an Author's choice to post a story or not. We know the Rules and proceed accordingly.
Besides, most of the 'fantasy' class of authors seem to think that all desirable women have 38DD at least, so mentioning a boob job seems a waste of effort.

 

[oggbashan]

Quick question.. why isn't there an expansion story category?

I simply refuse to believe that breast expansion, penis expansion, inflation, and all the other types of body expansion are not a prevalent enough trope to not garner their own division.

Agree or disagree?

The Fetish category would be the appropriate place for expansion. It may be your favourite but it does not have a large following compared to many other fetishes.

 

[BB47]

What is the most popular fetish in your opinion?

It appears that I am a bit naive when it comes to erotic lit when viewed as a whole. From our little corner of the sphere BE & PE stories are the bees knees. Upon venturing into this wonderful community, I was surprised to find it severely lacking in expansion. This leads me to one of two hypotheses.
Either a) the creators of this site didn't deem it necessary to include it and therefore it is prevalent.. but just mixed in with everything else. Or b) it is far less popular than I previously thought.
By these few responses, I now realize it is the latter. Even the above comment by Handley, whether tongue-in-cheek or not, displays a rather strange assumption that the BE fetish is somewhat banal. Ouch.

Nonetheless, it is my fetish of choice and therefore, hopefully I can help change a few minds about it with my writings.

 

[SamScribble]

Quick question.. why isn't there an expansion story category?

I simply refuse to believe that breast expansion, penis expansion ... are not a prevalent enough trope to not garner their own division.

Agree or disagree?

Gosh, about half of the stories already have women with 44-inch breasts and men with 12-inch penises. How more 'expansion' were you thinking of?

Oh, and welcome to the AH.

 

[beatrice_dreams]

Nonetheless, it is my fetish of choice and therefore, hopefully I can help change a few minds about it with my writings.

I think by their very nature, fetishes are usually pretty specialised. Because the Fetish category is a catch-all for so many of them, be sure to add specific tags to your stories so that anyone interested in your particular specialism can find your stories easily via the search page.

 

[PennLady]

Gosh, about half of the stories already have women with 44-inch breasts and men with 12-inch penises. How more 'expansion' were you thinking of?

Oh, and welcome to the AH.

Yes, welcome. I'm thinking, though, that there's probably a difference between stories about large-breasted women and men with big penises and stories about the expansion or growth of breasts and penises. Not that I particularly want to read or write one, but that's just me.

I think by their very nature, fetishes are usually pretty specialised. Because the Fetish category is a catch-all for so many of them, be sure to add specific tags to your stories so that anyone interested in your particular specialism can find your stories easily via the search page.

I agree. There are probably so many fetishes -- I'd say foot fetish seems to be one of the biggest -- that to divide them into categories would be almost impossible. You'd have a ridiculously long list of them. The tags are probably the bet way to go, as well as being specific about it in the tagline to the story.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I think by their very nature, fetishes are usually pretty specialised. Because the Fetish category is a catch-all for so many of them, be sure to add specific tags to your stories so that anyone interested in your particular specialism can find your stories easily via the search page.

Yes, and the psychologues have been long busy inventing names for every particular phobia and fetish (There's an idea - an expanded category of fetishes and phobias. Could it include a fetish or phobia for expansion itself - would that be some form of autofetishism or autophobia? or are those for people who like/fear cars? or car crashes?) Oh, I know - Expansiphilia - the inordinate love of things enlarging.

By the way, in Anthropology, where we have an inordinate lovefor studying these things, we lump them - BE, PE Tat, Binding, Piercing, etc - under the term "body modification."

Of course, we could ask authors to list the specific philias in their stories as keywords forthe search engine so philiacs may find their metaphiliae...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Lit was built back in the early dark ages of the internet, before the Global village was large enough to bring many trope-lovers together. The cats are naive and unthinking to many of us freaks and queers, concieved of by a hetero couple who had no idea of how big the world really is. And because Manu coded it by hand, it's very difficult for him to add new features or change old ones.

However!

Manu has recently embraced tag words, which will be your saving grace. Put your inflation stories in fetish, and tag the fuck out of them.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

tag the fuck out of them.

But... but... the story needs some fuck left over for the reader, doesn't it?

 

[BB47]

Yes, welcome. I'm thinking, though, that there's probably a difference between stories about large-breasted women and men with big penises and stories about the expansion or growth of breasts and penises. Not that I particularly want to read or write one, but that's just me.

Yes, you are correct. Although "large" is wonderful to the expansionist, "larger" is the idea.
To truly understand it you would need to visit the forum at the "bearchive" or read a well-rated story at "The Overflowing Bra". Although, I did see that you did say you weren't particularly interested.

The expansionist fetish is all about "bigger is better". Breast expansion is by far the most popular. This is where and why you see these women who keep getting their bust increased to 'insane' proportions. They are the real-life fantasies of the BE community and have an incredible following.

It occurred to me after a while that although there are a decent number of categories, literotica is truly a tag based inventory.

One thing that confused me at first was the fact that at least 10 of the categories, excluding Gay/Lesbian/Trans, are ACTUAL fetishes. So, in truth the "Fetish" category is a catch-all for everything else.

Furthermore, there are less than 2400 stories in the mind-control fetish category. Perhaps this is because most of the MC peeps are posting their stuff over at another archive. But perhaps not. I consider MC to be a specialized fetish and THEY got their own category. Actually, they got two categories if you lump it together with non-consent. My point is.. if they are catering to a fetish like MC that has a small showing.. why not give other fetishes a chance.. they might be surprised. There's easily that number of BE stories out there.

I have a theory, that the lack of categories is the very thing that defines this collection. If you build it they will come.. no pun intended. And due to this very fact, the missing fetish categories have ipso facto.. discriminated against the minority - which - by my humble opinion, may not be as minor as one may think.

Or, I could be wrong, or just whiny, which is probably worse.

 

[beatrice_dreams]

Of course, we could ask authors to list the specific philias in their stories as keywords forthe search engine so philiacs may find their metaphiliae...

Manu has recently embraced tag words, which will be your saving grace. Put your inflation stories in fetish, and tag the fuck out of them.

So are we saying that tagging in and of itself could be a fetish for the archivally-passionate among us? Indexiphilia?

Maybe this site could tell us: http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html

One of the oddest must be having an obsessive passion for 'looking up' - anablephilia!

 

[Tio_Narratore]

So are we saying that tagging in and of itself could be a fetish for the archivally-passionate among us? Indexiphilia?

Maybe this site could tell us: http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html

One of the oddest must be having an obsessive passion for 'looking up' - anablephilia!

I took a look, but couldn't find an entry for having an obsessive passion for reveries of women who guide 13th Century Italian writers through the nine spheres of heaven...

 

[sr71plt]

One thing that confused me at first was the fact that at least 10 of the categories, excluding Gay/Lesbian/Trans, are ACTUAL fetishes.

Well, golly, then heterosexual is just a festish too, right? Therefore, we don't need separate categories. One "Fetish" file should do it all.

 

[beatrice_dreams]

I took a look, but couldn't find an entry for having an obsessive passion for reveries of women who guide 13th Century Italian writers through the nine spheres of heaven...

That's just shoddy. Tsk. We shall have to inform the webmaster with some urgency of their omission!

 

[BB47]

Lit was built back in the early dark ages of the internet, before the Global village was large enough to bring many trope-lovers together. The cats are naive and unthinking to many of us freaks and queers, concieved of by a hetero couple who had no idea of how big the world really is. And because Manu coded it by hand, it's very difficult for him to add new features or change old ones.

Thank you, that actually clears it up a little.

However!

Manu has recently embraced tag words, which will be your saving grace. Put your inflation stories in fetish, and tag the fuck out of them.

Just to nit-pick.. inflation is different than expansion. I know it sounds the same, but it's not.

It's a little more subtle than lumping somebody bi with gay.. but.. to explain:

Inflation is a whole-body fetish. People who are into inflation like to see everything grow.. tummy, ass, breasts, everything. And it is perfectly fine.. or even preferred for it to be full of a single substrate.. like air or fluid. The giant ball-person is the goal.

Expansion, on the other hand, is case/organ specific. Which is why we delineate the acronym. "B"E for breast or "P"E for penis. BE purists don't want to see belly inflation. They also don't really want to see her breasts full of air. They usually want her growth to be organic in nature.. her actual breasts and nipples growing bigger, and more sensitive. Lactation is usually desired but not necessary. The breasts themselves somehow become a "measure" of her increased sexuality. The bigger the breasts the bigger the desire, the sexuality, the lust.
But BE purists enjoy the contrast of breast size to the rest of the body. They like the extreme hourglass shape.. NOT the inflationist Ball shape.

 

[BB47]

Well, golly, then heterosexual is just a festish too, right? Therefore, we don't need separate categories. One "Fetish" file should do it all.

Nah.. gender pref isn't a fetish. Sexual fetishism is mostly object or situation based. You know.. breast, ass, shoe, penis, rubber, baloon, dildo. And sitch would be mc, bdsm, control.

 

[sr71plt]

Nah.. gender pref isn't a fetish. Sexual fetishism is mostly object or situation based. You know.. breast, ass, shoe, penis, rubber, baloon, dildo. And sitch would be mc, bdsm, control.

You're right. I misread what I quoted.

 

[peebudy]

as a niche writer in the Fetish category (let's see if you can guess what my niche is?), i can tell you that all there is to further classify stories are the Tags that the writer can specify when submitting the story. Try using the advanced search to locate expansion or other niche topics.

Ideally, the single-select hard coded category option would be replaced by a dynamic auto-categorization routine based on the story tags. This would allow a group sex story that includes anal and piss to be cross posted to all three 'categories'

however, with the thousands of volunteer authors contributing to the site, it would be near impossible to assign tags consistently and accurately enough for this to work.

 

[lovecraft68]

Nah.. gender pref isn't a fetish. Sexual fetishism is mostly object or situation based. You know.. breast, ass, shoe, penis, rubber, baloon, dildo. And sitch would be mc, bdsm, control.

Good comment.

Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice/sexual preference, not a kink or fetish.

Ignore the idiot who has been mocking you. His vanilla ass would not know what a fetish was if it bit him and he is pathetic to the point he feigns bisexuality so people here will think he is cool.

Fetish by loose definition is anything other than the basic act of sex involving the normal sexual parts so to speak that gets you sexually aroused.

For instance I have a foot fetish. All the wife needs to do is sit with her bare feet up on the ottoman and I'm ready to go. Technically feet have no involvement during intercourse which is why this is a fetish.

It would be impossible to give every fetish it's own category, they are too wide ranging.

The best thing an author can do is to make good use of the fetish in the title of the story as well as the "tag line" and use as many tags as possible to attract like minded readers to their stories.

 

[beatrice_dreams]

You're right. I misread what I quoted.

Misread, you say? That's getting to be a bad habit with you lately...

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Good comment.

Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice/sexual preference, not a kink or fetish.

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I realize that this is still under hot debate, but the general consensus of most open-minded people is that it is not a lifestyle choice.

You would do well to remember that on this site, especially since you seem to have some enemies and probably don't want to make more.

 

[sr71plt]

Misread, you say? That's getting to be a bad habit with you lately...

Where else? And are you criticizing me for admitting it? I guess I'm supposed to pretend I was right? Is that the way it's done here?