Would this be acceptable?

[DreamerByTheDiamonds]

I'm considering writing a story one day that involves a character that becomes physically disabled, through a traumatic way, and how it's dealt with in their relationship with someone else. I'm scared to death that writing such a story would earn me accusations of fetishizing (is that the word for it?) disabilities and or injury. I hope to make it pretty damn clear that the character's physical disability is NOT the reason why they're considered attractive by their lover. In fact, they were in love before the incident that caused the disability. BTW, in case it's not clear, these characters are adults and they have all their mental faculties. No severely mentally disabled are people involved in this fictional scenario.

Would this type of story be allowed on Literotica? If so, do you think many readers would read such a thing? And I would it be in poor taste to add ... well ... tag words like "disabled" or some other term describing the character's physical condition? For example, say one character was missing an arm because it had to be amputated? Should I warn the reader with a tag like, "amputee?" Or would it be better to have a light warning in an author's note?

Once again, I don't want to make the disability a spectacle. Still, I don't want to throw that onto a reader without preparing them for it. I also certainly will NOT fetishize (not sure what word I'm looking for?) the traumatic event that caused the disability.

Does anyone have any advice on how to do such a thing, respectfully, on this website?

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

I wrote a story about a guy with CP in a wheelchair and his neighbor. TBH I cowrote. The guy with CP was written by someone with CP.

Telling a story with someone who has a medical condition is not fetishizing it, unless another character is aroused by thaat condition. Just treat it as you would any other character.

Make sure you understand the condition you're writing about and how it affects people with it. If possible find someone with that condition to beta read the story.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

My story Meg hinges on a one-legged woman with PTSD. There was no thought of eroticizing her amputation. I just wrote it as if those things were part of her. It worked.

 

[sirhugs]

It can be well done, at least in cinema . See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13.

As one with CP, I would probably not read the story, worrying about trigger effects, but would not object to a tasteful presentation. We need more mainstreaming. Geeks like sex too.

 

[Small_Island]

As a non-disabled vet, with disabled vet friends, I think it would be good to show their sex lives can go on; especially with the romantic angle you imply. A spouse being able to adjust to the change in the other spouse and still get physical could be uplifting.
I wouldn't put amputee or the like as a tag, however. To me such a tag would indicate a fetish. Your idea of a gentle author's note up front seems better.
Good luck.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Does anyone have any advice on how to do such a thing, respectfully, on this website?

Do some basic homework so you get the essentials right, and write with sensitivity and understanding.

I've done it - bravest thing I've ever written. It was well received.

https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/rope-and-veil

 

[dirtyriceking]

It can be well done, at least in cinema . See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13.

As one with CP, I would probably not read the story, worrying about trigger effects, but would not object to a tasteful presentation. We need more mainstreaming. Geeks like sex too.

I'm a non-geek with Spina Bifida, but I agree wholeheartedly!

 

[RetroFan]

I've written quite a number of characters who have physical disabilities or health problems and the feedback has been positive in every case. These have included Julie from April Leads Julie Astray who was crippled by polio, Tara from My Brother's Friend Deflowered Me who is a paraplegic, Karen from Donny and Karen's Giant Leap who has cystic fibrosis, Holly from Jehovah's Witness Romance who is an albino with poor eyesight and severe asthma and Samantha a support character from Trailer Trash Teen Hates Rules is a cancer survivor.

 

[FINLEYDIXON]

Finished the first draft of a story set in the 1950s about a closeted young man with cerebral palsy living with his closeted brother. Gay incest alert.

Really need an editor.

 

[FINLEYDIXON]

Published that story and did 99% of the editing myself
https://literotica.com/s/silence-between-brothers