Acceptance criteria for ageplay stories

[kittenlittlesunshine]

Hi! I had a story rejected because it was a Daddy/little roleplay. I had a disclaimer that it was a roleplay between consenting adults and didn't mention age at all in the story itself. The more exact reason I was given was that Literotica does not "post stories in which a character speaks, acts, or claims to be under the age of 18 (aka "ageplay") - even with a "All characters are over 18" disclaimer."

Fair enough, but I've seen many stories in which a character speaks or acts like they are under 18, but it is simply explicitly stated in the text of the story that they just turned 18, or even not mentioning age but that they are in college or something along those lines. Is that all that is needed? Or do I actually need to change how my "Little" character talks?

Thanks for any input!

 

[KeithD]

This is the call of one and only one person--Laurel, the site submissions editor (and site owner). No one else can tell you where the fine line is on her accept/not accept on each separate story submission is. Whenever you are dealing with age play you are dealing with the possibility that she won't accept it. If you really want the story here, you'll just have to rework and resubmit until Laurel is comfortable with it--and she may be uncomfortable with something on Tuesday that she wasn't on Saturday.

 

[kittenlittlesunshine]

Got it. I got the impression from reading through similar threads that it's kind of arbitrary, so good to get confirmation on that. I'll try again!

 

[SimonDoom]

I think it works this way, but this is just my interpretation based on what I've observed and KeithD is correct that the only judgment that really matters is Laurel's, and the published guidelines on this subject matter are not as clear as they could be.

Is your story GENUINELY about adults, so that the reader will see them as adults, even if there are elements about one of the characters that makes them seem young in some way,

OR

Is your story REALLY trying to appeal to readers who want one of the characters to be underage, and you're dressing things up to skate around the underage prohibition.

This is a fuzzy distinction to some, although I think it becomes clearer over time if you pay attention.

If you say in a disclaimer that everyone is over 18 but then in the body of the story itself everything about the story makes the female character out to be under 18, then it's probably going to be rejected.

On the other hand, if the story has a clearly 40-year old married woman who likes to dress up in school girl outfits and talk to her husband in a high pitched voice and call him "Daddy", my guess is that's probably going to be OK as long as there really is no doubt that the character is a 40-year old woman and readers will see her that way.

But I'm not 100% sure of that.

 

[KeithD]

Got it. I got the impression from reading through similar threads that it's kind of arbitrary, so good to get confirmation on that. I'll try again!

It probably is a little arbitrary, since, as I posted, it relies on one person who can have slightly different perspectives on the issue from one day to the other. It's still the bottom line on story acceptance here, though.

 

[kittenlittlesunshine]

Is your story GENUINELY about adults, so that the reader will see them as adults, even if there are elements about one of the characters that makes them seem young in some way,

OR

Is your story REALLY trying to appeal to readers who want one of the characters to be underage, and you're dressing things up to skate around the underage prohibition.

This is a fuzzy distinction to some, although I think it becomes clearer over time if you pay attention.

If you say in a disclaimer that everyone is over 18 but then in the body of the story itself everything about the story makes the female character out to be under 18, then it's probably going to be rejected.

That's a good point! It's obvious *to me* that the story is about adults pretending since it is based on a roleplay I (an adult) did with my partner (also an adult), but I can see it coming across as more like the second option.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Fair enough, but I've seen many stories in which a character speaks or acts like they are under 18, but it is simply explicitly stated in the text of the story that they just turned 18, or even not mentioning age but that they are in college or something along those lines. Is that all that is needed? Or do I actually need to change how my "Little" character talks?

It's the age you write the character that's important. If you write them or describe them as if they're young teens or pre-teens you will come unstuck, no matter what age disclaimers you bolt on. You have to write them as adults, clearly older than eighteen. Daddy/little role-play will always be tricky, because context is important.

You have to keep sexual content away from any "young" character.

Also, if you do see stories that you think skate oveTr the age policy line, you can report them. They'll go back to the site editor for another look.

 

[jaF0]

Fair enough, but I've seen many stories ...

I've seen many cars exceeding the speed limit, but only one or two gets stopped.

Why?


Some slip by.

 

[NotWise]

We have the "over eighteen" rule, and people have tried any number of ways to get around it. I can think of: writing an immature character and adding an age, or just a claim to an age, that puts them over eighteen (despite the budding breasts or tiny little cock); making the character some kind of ancient alien who just happens to look like an eight-year-old; writing "age play" in which the underage character never acts at all adult. I'm sure there are more.

I don't know what your intent was for the story, but from what little you've said, it looks like you're trying to get around the "over-eighteen" rule.

 

[jaF0]

making the character some kind of ancient alien who just happens to look like an eight-year-old;

Reminds me of a couple of Star Trek episodes where the 'children' were dozens or hundreds of years old.

 

[RejectReality]

It's not the story, but the scene that must be unambiguously between 18+ adults. If the sex scene can be pulled out of the story and read as underage sex without the context of the rest of the story, it's going to get rejected.

There's got to be concrete indication within the scene that it's role-play — and not just a passing mention. It needs to be integral.

Then you're into the somewhat murky territory where Laurel will make a call. That's the baseline.

 

[kittenlittlesunshine]

I don't know what your intent was for the story, but from what little you've said, it looks like you're trying to get around the "over-eighteen" rule.

I'm truly not, it's something I wrote for my partner based off a roleplay we did and I thought other people would find it hot as well. I didn't know going into it that ageplay roleplay isn't allowed on Lit. I was confused at the feedback I got from Laurel because of other stories I've seen get posted. All of my questions have now been answered and I am no longer confused.