Mystery Erotica - Anyone?

[Kitlekyana]

I'm just wondering why there is no category for erotica with an edge of mystery or whodunnit? I tried a story like that last year but I had to interchange it between romance and erotic couplings when I felt it didn't fit into either because the readership base for mysteries is completely different.

 

[PennLady]

I suppose the answer is that the site owners didn't put it in and haven't done it since. You could ask by sending a private message to Laurel, but I don't think they'll do it.

I've seen mysteries in romance, and it works just fine. I guess they'd get classified as romance/suspense or something like that.

 

[beatrice_dreams]

I'd certainly read a good mystery/romance in the Romance category any day! These days I think genre mixing is almost expected?

I love crime fiction...hmm...perhaps I should try it myself one day...

 

[Kitlekyana]

I'm actually trying to experiment with the genre but I'm not sure I'll find readership in Literotica. People seem to really have a taste for incest (you should see the number of hits on my incest stories). For a moment I actually thought my mystery erotica series was going to get a below 4 point score..... cringe...

 

[Dragonlipz]

I like the idea of following up on the action implied during a 'noir' detective story - turning it into a really sleazy sex-drugs-murder-betrayal tome....

 

[3113]

Type of Sex, not type of genre is what matters

If there is one thing that you learn very quickly on this site, it's that people are very particular about what they like sexually. If gay male turns them off, then they won't read it. And they object VERY STRONGLY to any story that is in a category that suggests it's going to be all hetero, but yet has a gay male sex scene (like group). Thus, this site--which is, after all, a porn site where people come to read porn--is geared to make sure people get the sex scenes they prefer, not the genre they prefer.

Putting it another way, you could have a mystery story in any of the categories--gay male, incest, group. If you're looking for a gay male sex-mystery, then you've only to use the search engines to find gay male stories that are crime/mystery. But if there was a mystery category, all people visiting that category would know is that it will be a crime/mystery. NOT what kind of sex would be involved--and that's not good for a porn site, is it? If the reader isn't into incest, and it's an incest mystery, they're going to get half-way through and be upset. So, the categories are focused on giving people their preferred sexual pleasure. It's up to them to find their preferred genre pleasure within that category.

As you may note, the exceptions to this are romance, fantasy/sci-fi and horror. Romance is heterosexual, monogamous, and not real kinky by default, so it is a kind of sexual preference, too. If you want a gay male romance, you, once again, have to go to the gay male category and use the search engine to find the romance stories. Ditto with lesbian. As for Horror/fantasy/sci-fi these genres lend themselves to all kinds of sex and most readers are okay with this--more open to it. But I can promise you that mystery/crime readers would be as picky as romance readers about the kind of sex acceptable in their fiction. I remember a wonderful writer who had a gay male detective and included some mild sex scenes in his books. The mystery bookstore owner told me that very few people showed up for this guy's signing because mystery fans viewed him as a gay writer, not as a mystery writer.

So, the short answer: there is no mystery category because this is a porn site. Readers want to pick their preferred sex first (like incest) then find the genre (like mystery or western) within that category. Not the other way around.

 

[oggbashan]

I tried it with a Nude Day Contest Entry. Danger! Naked Woman Chapter 01 Chapter 02

It seemed successful but was that the mystery? Or the sex? Or the sheep?

I don't know.

 

[sr71plt]

I write erotica murder mysteries. That's difficult for submission here, as murder is one of the taboos of this site (you can't use it as a keyword, for instance). But murder mysteries are about as popular and mainstream as you can get. It's pretty impossible to have a murder mystery without someone being murdered.

 

[TxRad]

I write erotica murder mysteries. That's difficult for submission here, as murder is one of the taboos of this site (you can't use it as a keyword, for instance). But murder mysteries are about as popular and mainstream as you can get. It's pretty impossible to have a murder mystery without someone being murdered.

I have two stories up with murders in them. The first was to see if I could write a convincing murder and the one that came out today, which is a Loving Wives story with a premeditated murder in it.

No, you can't use it as a keyword but you can do murders.

 

[Edward Teach]

"Mystery Writer" was a very good author on here several years back--I think he's dead now--who wrote nothing but mysteries, most of which were non-erotic. He had a solid following and even sold some of his work. I think it shows that good writing will be rewarded on here regardless of the erotic content.

 

[sr71plt]

I think to be a good story, any story really needs to have some level of mystery in it.

 

[MaxSebastian]

I would definitely vote for a mystery category, but I'm not sure there are enough erotic mysteries on the site to make a case.

It's this kind of thing that the tag system is for, though.

 

[electric1]

My Halloween humor story, Moan, was a whodunit. But I have no idea if the mystery aspect was responsible for the low score, of if the score was even low for a humor story. None of the feedback focused on the mystery aspect. But I did make the effort to plant red herrings and the whole shebang.

 

[Kitlekyana]

I would definitely vote for a mystery category, but I'm not sure there are enough erotic mysteries on the site to make a case.

It's this kind of thing that the tag system is for, though.

I still think the only reason there aren't identifiable erotic mysteries is because there's no category. Literotica is much more than a site, it's an opportunity to learn something (oh look...I just found out I can write good incest stories even if the category makes me cringe). Some writers test all categories just to see if they can and erotic mysteries would test their writing skills beyond the usual stimulating sex scenes.

 

[Laurel]

The Tags portal is a good place to find stories by keywords. For example:

crime drama
http://tags.literotica.com/?search_tag=crime+drama

mystery
http://tags.literotica.com/?search_tag=mystery

whodunnit
http://tags.literotica.com/?search_tag=whodunnit

private eye
http://tags.literotica.com/?search_tag=private+eye

thriller
http://tags.literotica.com/?search_tag=thriller

suspense
http://tags.literotica.com/?search_tag=suspense

You'll see that many of the stories tagged with these terms are highly rated with many reads, so I think Lit readers are definitely receptive to this genre.