Cell phone cameras in erotic stories.

[ChuckWolf]

In certain erotic stories (CFNM, Femdom, exhibitionist, etc.) often, one (or more) of the main characters are (with a cell phone) recorded being engaged in a humiliating sexual act, with the video used to publicly humiliate and/or blackmail that character.

Do you think this trope is overused?

 

[SimonDoom]

No.

Cell phones/cameras are an essential fact of modern life. They play a big role in dating, in relationships, in all types of communications. They're ubiquitous. One shouldn't shy away from featuring them in a story. I'm sure despite all the ground that's been covered there are new story concepts that can be generated from them.

I wouldn't worry about something being an overused trope. Just try to write the specific story as originally and well as you can.

 

[KeithD]

Agree with SD. It's natural that they would be used to take photos of sexual activity/poses, so I don't see any reason not to include that in erotica stories.

 

[TxRad]

Agree with SD. It's natural that they would be used to take photos of sexual activity/poses, so I don't see any reason not to include that in erotica stories.

Yeah, it works great until a reader points out that the digital camera you are using didn't exist in you stories time setting of 1970.

 

[Rustyoznail]

How could you write a story set in the present without referencing a cellphone? Unless you have it in Amish country...

 

[KeithD]

How could you write a story set in the present without referencing a cellphone? Unless you have it in Amish country...

A cellphone isn't necessary in the sex act, so I can see how an erotic story can be written without referencing a cellphone. I rarely reference one. I don't use one myself and I hasn't gotten in the way of me dreaming completed erotic thoughts.

 

[Emirus]

Why not?

In certain erotic stories (CFNM, Femdom, exhibitionist, etc.) often, one (or more) of the main characters are (with a cell phone) recorded being engaged in a humiliating sexual act, with the video used to publicly humiliate and/or blackmail that character.

Do you think this trope is overused?

I hardly read any stories nowadays as against before I began writing but I can only remember one in which a camera was mentioned snd that was as a tool for blackmail. If the use of a cellphone/camera fits in with the story then I don’t see a problem.

I’m writing a story now in which the main character has to contact someone urgently. She’s not in her office, the person is hundreds of miles away, so she uses her cellphone. As long as it’s not “forced” into the story or, as TxRad says, in the time period in which it’s set it doesn’t exist.

Unless you can give a good explanation as to why you’ve included it, as I did once, and explained why in the introduction but someone didn’t read the introduction and, although they liked the story, knocked a point off. Perhaps I should have put the sentence in bold or capitals. I’ll know for next time.

 

[ElectricBlue]

How could you write a story set in the present without referencing a cellphone? Unless you have it in Amish country...

Easy. Set it in Australia and call it a mobile.

You're not selling out to those damn Yanks, are you, Rusty?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

How could you write a story set in the present without referencing a cellphone? Unless you have it in Amish country...

When all your use you cell phone for is to make and receive phone calls you tend to forget about all the other stuff they can do today. I grew up without them. The only phone we had was on a special shelf in the kitchen and another one in my parents bedroom. And there were lots of phone booths back then.

There was a line from a TV show, where a detective goes back in time. He tells the detectives there that one day they would have personal phones they carry around with them. The group looks at the phone on the desk and then all say 'you expect us to carry that thing around with us? no way.'