Navels

[Wifetheif]

Navels pop os a great deal in my stories. I find them sexy. This fact however puts me in conflict with much of my favorite recreational reading. I'm a huge fan of writing from the Depression Era to the end of WWII. The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Spider, Conan, and so many others are my go to reading of choice. The thing is though, pulp fiction is a navel free zone! Women just DON'T have them. They have breasts (on rare occasions nipples as well), arms, gams, girlish figures, or womanly hips, china doll faces, and well-turned legs, but no navels! At times it borders on high comedy. This is Helene Vaughn, the mate of Tarzan clone, KI-Gor. It is established in virtually every story that she is running around in a leopard skin bikini (or less). Yet, at NO point was she permitted to show her navel on the cover of "Jungle Stories" the magazine her stories appeared in. Nor does she have a navel in any story. For the record, she gets naked three times in this adventure, including an off-page stripping by the villainous henchman of the scheming female antagonist. Ths applied as well to the "Spicy" pulps. Magazines of erotic stories for "red-blooded" men. The dictum to the writers wasyeah get her naked but don't you dare mention that she onc had an umblilical cord! I know this navel phobia persisted into the 60s with "I Dream of Genie" but that was it's last gasp.
What weird body parts phobia have you encountered in your reading travels. Have some of your readers objected to how you portrayed a body part or became a Puritan at the mention of your preferred fetish? I know we get scolds over incest tales (Then why read them?) and that Loving Wives brings out the trolls but are there more? What makes your readers go ick? There are probably a ton of great stories from those reactions.View attachment 2431622

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

The dictum to the writers wasyeah get her naked but don't you dare mention that she once had an umblilical cord!

As someone with a jeweled barbell in her navel, I'm personally offended by this selective prudishness from an era that predates my birth!

What weird body parts phobia have you encountered in your reading travels. Have some of your readers objected to how you portrayed a body part or became a Puritan at the mention of your preferred fetish? I know we get scolds over incest tales (Then why read them?) and that Loving Wives brings out the trolls but are there more? What makes your readers go ick? There are probably a ton of great stories from those reactions.

As for offended readers, when I first started writing NC/R stories, I used to get a few comments by people expressing how appalled they were to discover that a story in the Nonconsent/Reluctance category contained *gasp* nonconsensual sex! But that rarely comes up because most people who show up to read stories in a given category do so because they like the category.

 

[Wifetheif]

As someone with a jeweled barbell in her navel, I'm personally offended by this selective prudishness from an era that predates my birth!

As for offended readers, when I first started writing NC/R stories, I used to get a few comments by people expressing how appalled they were to discover that a story in the Nonconsent/Reluctance category contained *gasp* nonconsensual sex! But that rarely comes up because most people who show up to read stories in a given category do so because they like the category.

I got accused, just the other day, of beeing "Creep/groomer adjacent" simply BECAUSE i specialize in NC stories! Did Agatha Christie actually murder people?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Why, yes, she was the most prolific serial Killer of the first half of the 20th century. LOL

I got accused, just the other day, of beeing "Creep/groomer adjacent" simply BECAUSE i specialize in NC stories! Did Agatha Christie actually murder people?

 

[Wifetheif]

No, It's Jessica Fletcher of "Murder She Wrote." According to an analysis of F.B.I. statistics, her small town in Maine has the highest per-capita murder rate on the planet! Clearly, Jessica Fletcher is a serial killer without peer!

 

[MillieDynamite]

Actually, that is calculated off the 274 murders in the 264 episodes she solved in the run of the show. Less than a 1/3 of the episodes were set in Cabot Cove. Only 54 of the shows were set there, and she solved about 55 or so murders in 13 years that happened in CC. That's 4.2 murders per year in a town of 3600 residents (some of those murders were in a county, not the town), which is high but not so high as to draw the FBI's attention. Now, the fact that everywhere she went, and every time she wasn't actually in the episode, she narrated a story about murder, makes her a magnet for murder. I say it makes because even though Angela Lansbury is dead, Jessica Flecher will always be alive.

No, It's Jessica Fletcher of "Murder She Wrote." According to an analysis of F.B.I. statistics, her small town in Maine has the highest per-capita murder rate on the planet! Clearly, Jessica Fletcher is a serial killer without peer!

 

[SimonDoom]

Actually, that is calculated off the 274 murders in the 264 episodes she solved in the run of the show. Less than a 1/3 of the episodes were set in Cabot Cove. Only 54 of the shows were set there, and she solved about 55 or so murders in 13 years that happened in CC. That's 4.2 murders per year in a town of 3600 residents (some of those murders were in a county, not the town), which is high but not so high as to draw the FBI's attention. Now, the fact that everywhere she went, and every time she wasn't actually in the episode, she narrated a story about murder, makes her a magnet for murder. I say it makes because even though Angela Lansbury is dead, Jessica Flecher will always be alive.

This is a great book series concept. A serial killer masquerading as the detective that solves the crime by falsing pinning it on an innocent person every time. What a great idea.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

This is a great book series concept. A serial killer masquerading as the detective that solves the crime by falsing pinning it on an innocent person every time. What a great idea.

But how do you make it erotic enough for this site?

-Rocco

 

[MillieDynamite]

You mean, like, oh, say, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay, the first in his crime/Thriller series about American forensic analyst/serial killer Dexter Morgan. Only he didn't pin murders on innocent people.View attachment 2431715

 

[MillieDynamite]

I have a series of stories I've begun about a serial killer who is a sometime cop. But it'll never be put here. Or I don't think it will.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

I got accused, just the other day, of beeing "Creep/groomer adjacent" simply BECAUSE i specialize in NC stories! Did Agatha Christie actually murder people?

There's an anonymous comment under the penultimate chapter of one of my series expressing violent outrage that the FMC escapes a bad situation along with her kids (whom the commenter referred to as "skin rats"). It's very much a NC/R series, but because she initially tries to pass the rapist's baby off as her husband's, it does have some cuckolding/Loving Wives elements. If I had to guess, this commenter's usual haunt is Loving Wives.