A placement question

[ManitowocMike]

Plot: An 18 year old guy with a potentially bright future is protected from harm by older members of his community. They never conduct the business that they are later alleged to have conducted in front of him, always telling him to leave the room, or else they leave the room. He watches, both the comings and the goings and the sexual activities of his protectors. He hears things about things he isn't a party to, both sexual and otherwise.

A primary scene is a strip-tease bar. He watches the performers. There is a considerable amount of sexual activity that the narrator witnesses, lesbian, anal, fetish, light bdsm, and sometimes engages in. The bar owner's wife enjoys rewarding the narrator with blow jobs, often as the owner watches or is himself blown by one of his employees. The owner's home is basically a revolving door sex-party: sex, booze, and rock and roll. Usually there are more than two participants in any sex act.

The protagonist is torn between that concrete world that truly exists in the "here and now" and another that possibly exists and is being offered to him, maybe, if he does as he is told and all goes according to plan. Sexual activities in that world are polite respectful male dominance with bisexual females who are consensually submissive. He both watches and participates.

There is no (trump category) "Incest & Taboo" that the storyteller is aware of (he doesn't check IDs). Some male-male sex is alleged but never described in detail or actually witnessed by the protagonist.

My thought was E & V because at first he is in awe of this other world and then far more is happening than he could possibly participate in. Or Group because most sex scenes have more than two participants. Someone suggested I "make" the protector figure an "uncle" because I & T has the largest readership. Another suggested novels and novellas...

What say the experienced (Jimi)...

"Ah! But are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful..."

 

[RejectReality]

I think Group or E & V are both perfectly viable options as described. Changing one character to a relative ( especially a non-nuclear family relative ) is not likely to garner you much appreciation from IT readers. It's not the focus. The odds are better than not that you'll get a combination of apathy and negativity from that sort of move.

When there's any other option, there's no point in going with N & N. No sense sacrificing eyeballs for the safety net of readers with no particular expectations.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

You can put it wherever you want. Just make it believable for there. Good luck.

 

[PennameWombat]

If you want to aim for I&T, go all out and make it one, big extended family... Otherwise, don't throw in some random 'uncle' just for the purpose of that category. Yeah, it has the most readers (or does LW? That's the other 'big' one), but so what? My guess is they won't appreciate such a half-assed approach. Why do that? It's a fine fit for Group or E&V as it is. N&N is one of the lesser-read categories, and mainly for stories that have no dominant theme.

But this has similarities to a Group Sex story I did, which has received good scores. It's two M/F couples, one has a son, the other a daughter, the children now college-ages. The adults have always wanted their children to 'get together,' but one couple moved far from the other when their offspring were pre-teens. But, unknown to the kids, their parents have long been swapping, and would get together on occasional trips to fuck in various combinations.

On a summer holiday, the kids (now 18 and 20) reconnect. They'd always been attracted, so... but, they also discover their parents. At one point, the son and his father doubly-penetrate the young woman, while she performs oral sex on his mother while the young woman's parents fuck each other and watch (all due to competition between the young woman and her mother to fuck the most and hardest). More combinations ensue, but I was very careful that each set of parents and THEIR child never actually touched. At one point, the son, through his POV, did think about how he'd never expected his cock and his father's cock to be in the same woman at the same time and only be separated by thin flesh, and seeing his mother's legs spread (he was on his back, his girlfriend on top, the father doing her from behind) while his girlfriend ate her, was also not something he expected.