Non-Erotic: where is the line?

[ElectricBlue]

Thank you for your thoughts and opinions, girls and boys. I think I am going to try a Romance in which sex is implied but never explicitly described. We'll see what Laurel has to say.

I'd be dropping that into Romance from the get go. Why limit your readership by putting it into a tumbleweed category?

Your stories are all romances, Sam, you old softie. Go where the warm quilts are, I reckon. Some folk like gentleness. And comfortable slippers, warm fires, and a pot of hot tea .

 

[SamScribble]

Your stories are all romances, Sam, you old softie. Go where the warm quilts are, I reckon. Some folk like gentleness. And comfortable slippers, warm fires, and a pot of hot tea .

Damn! I've be rumbled!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Damn! I've been rumbled!

And a tasty woman wearing a nice dress or nothing at all. Don't stop writing them .

 

[Hypoxia]

Thank you for your thoughts and opinions, girls and boys. I think I am going to try a Romance in which sex is implied but never explicitly described. We'll see what Laurel has to say.

My successful (and only) Romance piece contains exactly one instance of explicit sex, a briefly-noted blowjob during a marriage proposal. Implications in the rest of the story are apparently erotic enough.

 

[SamScribble]

Well ... I have a partial answer.

I wrote a story about yacht racing and food. https://www.literotica.com/s/the-last-race-of-the-season At no stage does a Tab A come within a metre of a Slot B. And I submitted it under Non-Erotic. It went up yesterday. But Laurel has moved it to Erotic Coupling. Oh well. I've always thought that sailing and food are serious competitors to sex.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Seems like my stories are better off when I don't try to force them in erotic categories. Most of my characters seem reluctant to pull it off, anyway.

To me, Non-Erotic stories can have sex, but without too much emphasis on it; stories you could show to your friends, without feeling embarrassed about the juicy details.

An intelligent man! (Meaning, of course, one I agree with.)

I think the acid test is whether or not the tale is intended to arouse. There is a major difference between a gynaecology textbook and a book of porn, so to speak. A story about a nurse which involves her bathing her (naked) patients could be aimed to arouse or, with but a slight shift in emphasis, her bathing them could be as erotic as a cook flipping burgers - just part of the job, with trimming toenails next on the list.

That of course hinges on the skill of the writer.

 

[NotWise]

Well ... I have a partial answer.

I wrote a story about yacht racing and food. https://www.literotica.com/s/the-last-race-of-the-season At no stage does a Tab A come within a metre of a Slot B. And I submitted it under Non-Erotic. It went up yesterday. But Laurel has moved it to Erotic Coupling. Oh well. I've always thought that sailing and food are serious competitors to sex.

So far, the EC readers don't seem to be complaining about the distance between Tab A and Slot B.

 

[sbrooks103]

Bear with me, people. I’m thinking this out as I go.

There is a story category here at Lit titled Non-Erotic. The descriptor says: ‘Fiction without a sexual focus.’ What do you think that means?

Over the new year break, I re-read a couple of old favourite books: Robert Drewe’s Our Sunshine and Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal. (I have a penchant for slim volumes.) I suppose that some people might consider The Dying Animal to be an erotic novel – although its main theme is commitment (or lack thereof). Our Sunshine is a fictionalised account of the last days of the infamous outlaw, Ned Kelly. But it does have a few highly erotic passages.

I have posted one Non-Erotic story on Lit (“Soul Cakes’). It has no sex whatsoever. But it was pretty well received.

Most of the stories I post here on Lit have not a lot of sex. They are stories about people, often people struggling with the stuff that people struggle with in everyday life. Some of the stories do OK. Some of them hover at the dreaded 4.49. (Is there a special award for having eight stories on 4.49 at the same time? If there is, how do I claim my trophy?)

I’m wondering if I should follow the lead of publishers of mainstream novels and post my sex-is-just-part-of-life stories in Non-Erotic. What do you think, girls and boys?

‘Fiction without a sexual focus.’ - That seems to allow for sex in the story as long as it isn't the focus. That would even allow for at least SOME Loving Wives type stories, where even though sex obviously enters into it, the FOCUS is on the relationships.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

I have two stories in Non-Erotic. Both mention sex but they aren’t erotic, if that makes sense. One is a 750-Word story called “Beautiful Glass” so it’s a quick example to read.

 

[GuessImJamie]

Well ... I have a partial answer.

I wrote a story about yacht racing and food. https://www.literotica.com/s/the-last-race-of-the-season At no stage does a Tab A come within a metre of a Slot B. And I submitted it under Non-Erotic. It went up yesterday. But Laurel has moved it to Erotic Coupling. Oh well. I've always thought that sailing and food are serious competitors to sex.

Under an alt we wrote a ca. 5500 word "love story" about where we live, no sex whatsoever. The words love, desire, enthralled abound. It said we swim without suits. It is in Erotic Couplings as well. But it isn't being slammed.

Our story about unrelated persons in a Dominance and Submission relationship that was put in Incest /Taboo, and the Humor piece put in I/T (he saw his parents naked) and the Group Sex about five girls and two guys moved to Lesbian are doing far, far, worse.

 

[yukonnights]

Oh, yes! Zipping along in my BMW M3, on a nice day, with the top down, was always a pretty sexy thing.

Ha ha ha. Don't knock it until you've tried it.

I did often have a young woman in the car with me - well, younger than me anyway.

And then, at 8:30 one morning, I stuck my head in an MRI machine. Two hours later, a neurologist diagnosed epilepsy. And, an hour or so later, a junior doctor was designated to inform me that my driving licence was no longer my driving licence. Since then, my former front seat passenger has been my chauffeur. Funny how these things work out.

Is it just me that's thinking; Sam's talking about zipping down the road while his chauffeur has her top down

 

[ElectricBlue]

An intelligent man! (Meaning, of course, one who agrees with me).

I just edited that for you, TP .

 

[ElectricBlue]

Is it just me that's thinking; Sam's talking about zipping down the road while his chauffeur has her top down

Just you, Yukon. Sam is far too much a gentleman to expose a young lady to the lustful eyes of lorry drivers and policemen. Besides, think of the wind chill .

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I just edited that for you, TP .

I shan't quibble, sir.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I shan't quibble, sir.

Is a quibble a quim getting nibbled? Or something else entirely?

Either way, a gentleman always respects a lady's wishes, especially when so politely expressed .