How do I 'Backstory/build' with erotic content

[Dirty_Lymerick]

Hello,

I'm trying to write something, I've put together about 130+ pages thus far and I have run into a concern. I have at the introduction and had planned to later add several non-important characters as a sort of background to make the story seem less like a giant hallway. The concern I have is that some of these characters would not be 18, for instance, if I want to introduce a family or I'm walking my characters through a park(or getting frisky in the bushes), whatever the case may be, and I stress to clarify at no point will any character under 18 ever be exposed to or run into contact with sexual elements, but they may potentially be used to lead into sexual content. Is this ok to add to the writing?

ex 1.
18+ yr old char walks in and looks to the younger sister of other 18+ yr old "Where is so-so" exchange location information and then the 18+ yr olds bump uglies after an awkward meetup due to the younger sister's careless/negligent response.

Ex. 2
a teacher working part-time as a prostitute in the 'Kingdom of Boners' is getting railed out by a grizzled adventurer to buy books for her students, but they are doing it in her office and he tells her not to be too loud or everyone will hear.

Stuff like this. Please advise.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

As I understand it, children (meaning those under 18) may be mentioned, so long as they are not participating in or witnessing any form of sexual activity.

 

[amofiga]

As I understand it, children (meaning those under 18) may be mentioned, so long as they are not participating in or witnessing any form of sexual activity.

I'm not so sure about that unless it's quite "pure" and not in ANY way a sexual issue. Let's face it, teenagers pleasure themselves. Notice I don't use the "m" word or the "J.O." phrase here because that might be too specifically sexual. "Pleasuring yourself" "COULD" mean just eating a lot of ice cream because it feels good and gives you pleasure. Ridiculous? Sure. But I once got a story censored because a mom found a pair of her 14 year old's underwear in the hamper that indicated that he was doing something that begins with "m" that people used to believe made you go blind.

I'm not even using terms I want to in this post because I fear Big Brother is watching. I've had to work around the wording in stories by using terms like "a long time ago, blah blah" with out mentioning a specific age. I've had to pretend that people were virgins until they had just turned 18 and had just had their first experience. Maybe I'm being paranoid but ever since I had the censor's hand slap me down for mentioning something that we all know is "normal", I try to be careful. Maybe somebody can really clear up what is and isn't allowed.

 

[Dirty_Lymerick]

Yes, the context of the stories can certainly be changed, and characters aged up appropriately I am getting feedback from another post I've already put out that I seem to overthink and that there are plenty of easy or simple solutions to most of the stuff I am apparently worrying about.

I can just say people are ignorant and don't learn to read until 18 and enter college and bump the teacher's age up. I doubt people are going to care about the finer points while they wait for drool-inducing smut to emerge from within the writing. XD.

 

[ElectricBlue]

You can mention under eighteen characters, just use a very simple one-liner ("She lost her virginity aged sixteen"), don't describe the sexual action in any detail, and keep the nearest sexual content a thousand words away, with the young character gone from the room.

I have eighty or so stories/chapters published, and in amongst that lot I've got a fourteen year old pre-menstrual girl, at least four new-born babies, a toddler, and four or five teenagers in a village looking after pigs and goats. None of their scenes are sexual encounters, they're not the sexual protagonist until they're much older (and then they're explicitly stated as adults). I have one First Time story where the characters were up-aged to be a month or two past eighteen, and one story (written very early) where I had to discard a flash-back scene.

So, yes, you can write realistic juniors, just with no sex anywhere nearby. It's not hard to do, just keep the erotic elements a long way away.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm not even using terms I want to in this post because I fear Big Brother is watching. I've had to work around the wording in stories by using terms like "a long time ago, blah blah" with out mentioning a specific age. I've had to pretend that people were virgins until they had just turned 18 and had just had their first experience. Maybe I'm being paranoid but ever since I had the censor's hand slap me down for mentioning something that we all know is "normal", I try to be careful. Maybe somebody can really clear up what is and isn't allowed.

This suggests to me that you might be writing underage content here on Lit, and you know it.

Stay within the site owner's policy and you're okay. Dance around the line, and you're not. You may not be Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers, but I can hear tap dancing.

It's not censorship, by the way. Only governments censor. Laurel can publish or reject whatever she likes, as Lit is a privately owned site.

 

[Dirty_Lymerick]

You can mention under eighteen characters, just use a very simple one-liner ("She lost her virginity aged sixteen"), don't describe the sexual action in any detail, and keep the nearest sexual content a thousand words away, with the young character gone from the room.

I have eighty or so stories/chapters published, and in amongst that lot I've got a fourteen year old pre-menstrual girl, at least four new-born babies, a toddler, and four or five teenagers in a village looking after pigs and goats. None of their scenes are sexual encounters, they're not the sexual protagonist until they're much older (and then they're explicitly stated as adults). I have one First Time story where the characters were up-aged to be a month or two past eighteen, and one story (written very early) where I had to discard a flash-back scene.

So, yes, you can write realistic juniors, just with no sex anywhere nearby. It's not hard to do, just keep the erotic elements a long way away.

Thanks, that sums it up perfectly, i'm told that all of the stories are looked at anyways and will be rejected and all I have to do is change the specific parts they point out. (like you mentioned above) I appreciate the post.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thanks, that sums it up perfectly, i'm told that all of the stories are looked at anyways and will be rejected and all I have to do is change the specific parts they point out. (like you mentioned above) I appreciate the post.

If you do get rejected for possible under-age content, you will get a generic rejection note, couched as a number of questions. You will NOT get anything specific to your story.

It is up to you to identify what is non-compliant and either tweak your text or argue why it should be allowed.

 

[Hypoxia]

This again.

* Underage sex can be reported but not described -- say what happened but not how.
* UNDERAGE means appearing to be a human not yet 18 -- no prepubescent immortals.
* SEX includes involvement in or thinking of sexual activity -- no wet dreams by or of minors.

No, underagers are not ignorant of sex. We just don't write that for LIT. Laurel's rules have worked well. Underage, bestiality, and snuff go elsewhere. Good luck with writing.