The Literotica Universe

[gunhilltrain]

Maybe some of you have seen this recent essay by MaryAnderson.

https://www.literotica.com/s/welcome-to-the-literotica-universe

What do you think of it? (It already has forty-two comments.)

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hmmm. I think I live in a different part of the Lit Universe, because I've never written a DD in a halter-top, I've never boffed mom in the back of a car, and I don't drive a pick-up truck. But my cock is above the Kinsey average, so there is that .

Tres amusant .

 

[KeithD]

I have some of that in my Literotica universe. Isn't erotica supposed to be arousal fiction? Don't superlatives serve arousal? I include it in my writing and see no need to belittle it or write satires about it. The essay didn't arouse me, so I guess it didn't do much for me as a Literotica work.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

I commented on it a while back. I think ever new writer should read this as a "Do Not" before that first submission.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Well, same universe, possibly same galaxy, definitely a different spiral arm. I think the author exist heavily in the Incest / Loving Wives spectrum where that might be the case. I on the other hand live in a universe where 18 year old Chinese girls innocently continue with their middle class suburban lives until they meet a biker while sweeps them away on a Harley, or an alien who wants a host for its eggs or .... whatever. I think I'm in another spiral arm for sure.

 

[KeithD]

I commented on it a while back. I think ever new writer should read this as a "Do Not" before that first submission.

I don't agree with that at all. Different strokes for different folks in both reading and writing, and those who want to impose their likes/dislikes on others should just leave the others the hell alone and be grateful that their own preferences and fetishes are supported here.

Sorry, but this is really irritating.

 

[NotWise]

Sorry, but this is really irritating.

Why?

I read the essay as being mostly tongue-in-cheek commentary from someone who has written a lot of successful stories in a lot of different Lit categories, but none in GM as near as I can tell.

Maybe she could speak for herself, but I doubt she wanted to limit anyone's choice of story or character. She was commenting on trends and tropes, all of which seemed spot-on to me.

 

[ishtat]

The essay was ok - but a bit like a joke which had been re-told mebbe a time or two too many.

And Miss Tzang - put your biker on a real bike, say a Vincent Black Lightning/Shadow, or a 'Featherbed' Manx Norton, not that crap Harley turns out!

 

[NotWise]

And Miss Tzang - put your biker on a real bike, say a Vincent Black Lightning/Shadow, or a 'Featherbed' Manx Norton, not that crap Harley turns out!

Harley's are a cult thing. They have their place in Lit.

 

[KeithD]

Why did you feel compelled to bring GM up? What does that have to do with anything? Under SR71plt, I'll bet I've posted more stories here in every straight category you have written to than you have--or close. I'll have to go off and check that.

I am not defending anything I personally write or read here. I'm defending the right for other writers and readers to enjoy what this Web site permits them to read/write without being subjected to nose-up derision from anyone else here.

I can't understand the inability of some at a greatly permissive site such as this to just not leave readers and writers the hell alone to enjoy their preferences/fetishes just like the nose-up deriders can.

Later: Yep, upon check I've seen that I've posted far more stories outside of the GM category and in far more straight categories than you have under my sr71plt name--all without having to go to accounts I have where there are no GM stories. So you can just stop trying to limit the relevance of my posts to the GM category now.

 

[NotWise]

I'm defending the right for other writers and readers to enjoy what this Web site permits them to read/write without being subjected to nose-up derision from anyone else here.

I really doubt that she intended to limit anything that anyone wants to write. Her essay was primarily humorous.

 

[KeithD]

I really doubt that she intended to limit anything that anyone wants to write. Her essay was primarily humorous.

You didn't respond to the question. What a surprise.

 

[ishtat]

Harley's are a cult thing. They have their place in Lit.

Absolutely agree.

They're also Donald Trumps favourite. No US. manufacturing firm in the past 70 years has ever received such massive subsidies and tariff protection. For a crap Product/Cult Icon.

 

[rae121452]

when maryanderson writes a story about a 55 year old hooker who has suppurating sores from her heroin addiction and nipples that graze her waist, giving head to a 60 year old obese, smelly trick with a 4 inch dick..........and her feedback is overwhelmingly positive........that i want to see. giving the market what it wants is just good business. if you want to write the edsel of porn stories, fine........just don't try to be superior because everyone else wants their story to be a Porsche.

 

[SimonDoom]

I can't understand the inability of some at a greatly permissive site such as this to just not leave readers and writers the hell alone to enjoy their preferences/fetishes just like the nose-up deriders can.

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I don't read Mary Anderson's article as dismissive or disapproving, or as telling authors "here's what you should not do." It's just a humorous piece. And it is humorous. Like you, I see nothing wrong with exaggerating traits and characteristics for erotic effect. Eroticism is, or at least in many cases is, a form of fantasy, and there's nothing wrong with playing to a fantasy.

But sometimes I do step back from my stories with super horny hot moms and sons with impressive rejuvenation skills and laugh. I keep writing them anyway, but I get a laugh out of them, too.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The essay was ok - but a bit like a joke which had been re-told mebbe a time or two too many.

And Miss Tzang - put your biker on a real bike, say a Vincent Black Lightning/Shadow, or a 'Featherbed' Manx Norton, not that crap Harley turns out!

Ha! I'll have you know that Round Out in "Chinese Takeout" is rebilding an old Norton Commando as well as an AJS650 (the AJS was from memory, it might e been another one) as well as a riding a Harley.

 

[NotWise]

Absolutely agree.

They're also Donald Trumps favourite. No US. manufacturing firm in the past 70 years has ever received such massive subsidies and tariff protection. For a crap Product/Cult Icon.

Harley's have an erotic angle. They're massive vibrators.

I'm not a biker, but the touring bikers I've known wouldn't touch a Harley. You're exhausted by the end of a day. BMWs and Hondas were common in that crowd. Locally, Nortons are hard to find.

 

[Oblimo]

Harley's have an erotic angle. They're massive vibrators.

“She came so hard atop the Harley she had tinnitus symptoms for weeks afterward?”

I'm not a biker, but the touring bikers I've known wouldn't touch a Harley. You're exhausted by the end of a day. BMWs and Hondas were common in that crowd.

Two bikers I knew got imported crotch-rockets and died.

 

[NotWise]

Two bikers I knew got imported crotch-rockets and died.

So us in the US should all stick with domestic crotch rockets. How many are there? Harley and Indian are all that come to mind right now.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Pretty sure I've broken at least four of those "rules" at one time or another. Many of the others aren't applicable for me since I rarely write male characters or detailed physical description.

They're certainly common tropes, reflecting the fact that a lot of readers and writers get off on those particular elements, but I assume she has her tongue firmly in cheek when she presents them as universal rules. It came across to me as friendly ribbing rather than attacking those tastes, but YMMV.

 

[ishtat]

Harley's have an erotic angle. They're massive vibrators.

That's caused, I think by the deliberately uneven firing of the cylinders in the classic Vtwin. It also produces the unique 'sound' sometimes described as potato/potato.

 

[dididothat]

Maybe it's me

Well I broke two rules, I wrote a disappointing sex scene and I broke my heroines nose.

I think they may have been trying to be funny, humour is harder to write than sex

 

[Handley_Page]

The essay was ok - but a bit like a joke which had been re-told mebbe a time or two too many.

And Miss Tzang - put your biker on a real bike, say a Vincent Black Lightning/Shadow, or a 'Featherbed' Manx Norton, not that crap Harley turns out!

I've enjoyed a Triumph, myself; later a 500 Norton (featherbed framed), and an old BSA B31; all damned good bikes. T%he thing we all wanted early on was a Black Shadow, but they were spectacularly rare in my world.

The modern alternative might be a Suzuki Hayabusa which leaves everything in the dust; (ideal if you an early death. . . .)

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have some of that in my Literotica universe. Isn't erotica supposed to be arousal fiction? Don't superlatives serve arousal? I include it in my writing and see no need to belittle it or write satires about it. The essay didn't arouse me, so I guess it didn't do much for me as a Literotica work.

Re: Arousal fiction. Sometimes that is true, but it is also valid to write about sex (and romance) that ends up disappointing, or even disastrous. Downbeat stories are probably not going to be the tops in popularity, but they may have something interesting to say about sexuality.

 

[oggbashan]

I've enjoyed a Triumph, myself; later a 500 Norton (featherbed framed), and an old BSA B31; all damned good bikes. T%he thing we all wanted early on was a Black Shadow, but they were spectacularly rare in my world.

The modern alternative might be a Suzuki Hayabusa which leaves everything in the dust; (ideal if you an early death. . . .)

One of my (wealthy) friends inherited a Black Lightning from his father. It was fitted with a dual seat and 'Bobby-dodger' lights so it could be registered for use on the road. Later a blower (supercharger) was temporarily added to make it go even faster. Why? An unmodified Black Lightning was the fastest production motorcycle in the world. The blower was removed after a couple of months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Black_Lightning

He never let me ride it alone but with me as a pillion passenger we exceeded 110 miles an hour on the A23 London to Brighton Road. He wanted to do 125 mph but we ran out of straight road.

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