Age Restriction

[stranger92]

Hi,

My main character is 18 years old, but still in high school. Is it going to be a problem for the story to be published on the site?

Thank you,
Stranger92.

 

[R. Richard]

Hi,

My main character is 18 years old, but still in high school. Is it going to be a problem for the story to be published on the site?

Thank you,
Stranger92.

So long as it is explicitly stated that ALL characters are at least 18-years-old, should be no problem. You aren't allowed to have 17-year-olds watching sex.

 

[sr71plt]

But why is it necessary for your character to be in high school (and, presumably, having sex) if you aren't trying to play the underage card?

 

[49greg]

Have things changed since I was in HS (1960s)? I don't think anyone in my graduating class was 18 at graduation. One guy was still 16 and I didn't turn 18 until first semester of college.

 

[stranger92]

But why is it necessary for your character to be in high school (and, presumably, having sex) if you aren't trying to play the underage card?

It's a fantasy series, and he is still living with his guardian. He is a senior in high school, less than a month away from graduating.

 

[sr71plt]

Have things changed since I was in HS (1960s)? I don't think anyone in my graduating class was 18 at graduation. One guy was still 16 and I didn't turn 18 until first semester of college.

I was struck by this the other day (having gotten a reunion flyer). No, I wasn't 18 when I graduated. Turned 18 the following summer. I think some probably were 18, though.

 

[sr71plt]

It's a fantasy series, and he is still living with his guardian. He is a senior in high school, less than a month away from graduating.

OK, not that that responds to the question. Just thought you might want to think about this again.

 

[heartofdixie1992]

I have an approved story with 18 year old students. Many students I graduated with were 18 pre-graduation. I'll say because of the crack down on 4 year olds entering kindergarten, making some kids wait till 5 and a half to enter. So go for it

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

I would have been 18 had I stuck around to graduate.

Mike

 

[sr71plt]

High school is an underage environment. Let's be real. And, yes, it's a porn writer's heaven--fit kids bursting with hormones and not too much thinking going on between the ears.

But then the first few years of college aren't much different--and they don't invoke the interest of Internet vigilantes. But, if the goal of the story is to evoke the underage crowd . . .

 

[RichardBacula]

Have things changed since I was in HS (1960s)? I don't think anyone in my graduating class was 18 at graduation. One guy was still 16 and I didn't turn 18 until first semester of college.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081115123306AA22b7n

18 is the average age to graduate at.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

In the state where I was born, the cut off for enrollment in kindergarten was December 1. As a result, around 50% of my class was 18 at graduation, the other 50% was 17.

I now live in Florida, where the cut off is August 1. That means around 75% are 18 at graduation.

And there are always a few unfortunate 19 year olds.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hi,

My main character is 18 years old, but still in high school. Is it going to be a problem for the story to be published on the site?

Thank you,
Stranger92.

There are plenty of stories here that fit that bill. However, if it feels like you're trying to write an under-age story and just tacked on a "they're over 18" to cover yourself, it might still get modded.

I ended up reporting one recently, where the author started out by stating that the character was 18 but then made a big point of how she looked much younger. It felt like an attempt to sneak underage fetish material past the mods.

 

[stranger92]

There are plenty of stories here that fit that bill. However, if it feels like you're trying to write an under-age story and just tacked on a "they're over 18" to cover yourself, it might still get modded.

I ended up reporting one recently, where the author started out by stating that the character was 18 but then made a big point of how she looked much younger. It felt like an attempt to sneak underage fetish material past the mods.

Hi Bramblethorn and also sr71plt,

I wanted him in high school because he is still living with his guardian. This guardian has a small but significant role in the story. As I said it's a fantasy series. He thinks he is eighteen years old, and in a sense its true, but in another point of view he is over thousand years old.

 

[PennLady]

Hi Bramblethorn and also sr71plt,

I wanted him in high school because he is still living with his guardian. This guardian has a small but significant role in the story. As I said it's a fantasy series. He thinks he is eighteen years old, and in a sense its true, but in another point of view he is over thousand years old.

Even if he was over 18, he could still live with his guardian while he went to college, worked, whatever. After all, if the story is set in a contemporary setting, plenty of people are still living with parents post-college and all. It wouldn't be that unusual.

 

[glanglais]

I was having sex in high school with a girl who was the same age as me. I can't write about those experiences?

In fact, I have 3/4 of a book built around many of my own experiences where the initiation of a sexual relationship between the protagonists at an early age is integeral to the story arc -- and has nothing to do with appealing to pedophilic audience.

 

[sr71plt]

I was having sex in high school with a girl who was the same age as me. I can't write about those experiences?

Yes, you can write it. You just can't publish it on Literotica unless they both are clearly specified as at least eighteen.

 

[SandraMustard]

I was having sex in high school with a girl who was the same age as me. I can't write about those experiences?

In fact, I have 3/4 of a book built around many of my own experiences where the initiation of a sexual relationship between the protagonists at an early age is integeral to the story arc -- and has nothing to do with appealing to pedophilic audience.

You can write what you want. You just can't publish it on Literotica. They are iron-willed about their rules to keep free of legal troubles. Your intent is not the issue. You can't predict what will appeal to a pedophile. You can't win any arguments against the age rule. Accept it.

 

[glanglais]

Well, I suppose I could have his brothers still living at home at 25 and 28 respectively during the 1960's, driving him around because he doesn't have his drivers license at 20 yrs of age, having him graduate high school at 23...

I'm pretty creative, but I'd really have to push the ol' "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point to get that to work.

Or I suppose I could just start the story when they meet at ten, talk about badminton and Monopoly games until they're 13, skip ahead to their 18th birthdays, allude vaguely to the fact that they had been having sex in between, then have the rest of the arc make absolutely no sense at all...

Jeez -- even Jodi Foster did "The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane". You can do an underage relationship which which is integeral to the story yet doesn't pander to the pedophilic sickos.

I'm not arguing for it one way or the other, as I don't believe that "freedom of speech" gives anyone the freedom to say whatever stupid thing falls out of their mouths. I just think that it's a little arbitrary.

 

[PennLady]

Well, I suppose I could have his brothers still living at home at 25 and 28 respectively during the 1960's, driving him around because he doesn't have his drivers license at 20 yrs of age, having him graduate high school at 23...

No one's saying you should do that, but that's info we didnt have before. You hadn't specified when the story was set. if that stuff is important to the story, then yes, keep the ages where you need to.

I'm not arguing for it one way or the other, as I don't believe that "freedom of speech" gives anyone the freedom to say whatever stupid thing falls out of their mouths. I just think that it's a little arbitrary.

It may be arbitrary, but it's the rule. It's where they drew the line and it is not an unusual line. There are other sites that are stricter than Lit, that won't take incest stories, for example, or other things. Lit has two rules -- no underage sex, and no bestiality. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

 

[sr71plt]

Or you could just publish your underage stories elsewhere. We get this argument twice a week here. This Web site is a private business. They can ban whatever element of a story they want to.

 

[colddiesel]

The fact that the original question was effectively answered on post 2 but that it took a further 20 odd posts to convince the two "virgins," convinces me that Pilot's suspicions were right on this occasion - they hoped to fiddle the age rule.

I wonder how long before this question is asked again, my guess is within 4 to 6 weeks.

 

[glanglais]

Oh -- the old "they can do whatever they want even if it's a stupid reason because it's a private business, so you can just go elsewhere" schtick. [ I was reading that tired old saw on BBS's back in the 80's. I would have expected an author to come up with something a little more imaginative thirty years later...

I don't actually publish underage stories -- I'll let you slid on that one for now -- and I don't have any intention of posting it here or anywhere else, anyway. I got 3/4 of the way through it and realized that wasn't going anywhere, and didn't make a whole lot of sense anyway. I may go back and take a second run at it, but it's on the shelf for the forseeable future.

I know that Literotica is pretty liberal, which is why I signed up. The age restriction (and the one on bestiality) is completely understandable, from a legal perspective, and I certainly won't put up a stink.

I just think it's kind-of funny. Most people start thinking about sex around puberty and are experimenting in some way shortly after that. But I understand that there are a lot of restrictions on pornog... adult erotica materials in the U.S. specifically to prevent abuse and exploitation.

 

[glanglais]

The fact that the original question was effectively answered on post 2 but that it took a further 20 odd posts to convince the two "virgins," convinces me that Pilot's suspicions were right on this occasion - they hoped to fiddle the age rule.

Your personal experiences aside, not everyone who asks clarification on a rule has the intention of "fiddling" with it.

 

[sr71plt]

I certainly won't put up a stink.

Ah, but you are putting up a stink. And it's as tiresome as that put up by all those who have done so before you.