SusanJillParker
I'm 100% woman
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I want to do two different things with my story that come close enough to Literotica TOS violations that my mind keeps going, "Hey, that's dumb, don't try to do that," but then at the same time, "Hey, maybe I could just..."
The characters are of-age in the story now, I want to go through a sequence of flashbacks to show who they used to be/what made them what they are.
I have a girl who's been the protagonist's best friend all throughout high school, who's developed a semi-secret crush on him. I want to go back through flashbacks to the first day they met, which would've been freshman year of high school, and continue on through 'till their senior year where she tries to kiss him. I want to show how she first became interested with him, and how she started to develop feelings for him. Sorta show how they've grown and changed in those years to become who they are in the current story.
As if that wasn't enough, I then also through these flashbacks want to hint at (but not show) how the protagonist was abused by his parents to explain how he became somewhat of a doormat for his overbearing girlfriend later on in his life/in general had problems forming trust and developing intimacy in relationship. The unrequited-crush girl would develop some of her feelings for the protagonist when she found out and tried to help him with these issues.
I know that I can write all of that out in a non-sexual manner, and I know that I can make it interesting. But does that matter? Is it too close or right on top of a line that just shouldn't be crossed? I mean, I recognize and appreciate that the line is there for a good reason, and even my own first knee-jerk reaction in giving myself advice for this is to write it out if I have to, but not submit it/include it in the chapters posted online.
One of my snippets:
Should I risk toe-ing the line here? I'm half-sure that even written out in a non-sexual way, and even if I only hint/imply abuse without showing it, I'll still get the chapter taken down or reported regardless. I just keep wanting to write it out so that readers can understand who they are and why it becomes significant years later (when they're of legal age, in their early twenties) that characters come together.
I'm hoping you guys have run into this problem already and found a better solution for this kind of situation, or at the least you can tell me it's just a no-go no matter what so that I can stop trying to make excuses for myself.
Your fiction is the reality of my life from 5 to 15 with seven different men (long story).
It's a story I'd love to write but I can't even if I wanted to write it, too painful. The story is too disturbing. Instead, I write as if everything that happened to me as a child, happened to me when I was 18-years-old. The reader is smart enough to read into what I'm writing to know that the sexual, emotional, and physical abused started long before my 18th birthday.
It's when you start rubbing ages of minors in Laurel's (the owner) face that she'll reject your story. I can't say that I blame her. I never write stories with under age characters for obvious reasons. I can't. I just can't.
What happened to me has ruined my life. Even now, after years of therapy, I still have nightmares and rage. Even after years of therapy, here I am writing erotica on a porn board. Go figure.
Yet, I'm one of the lucky ones. Most abused victims turn to alcohol, drugs, and suicide. Most abused victims become abusers themselves. Instead, I turned to reading, writing, and music. Even though I dropped out of high school, 5 years later, I earned my GED and graduated magna cum laude with a 3.65 gpa from Northeastern University with a BS in English with creative writing and English literature minors.
Yet, still, with all that I went through and all the I know, I married a drunken, abusive, Boston undercover cop who physically abused me. Our marriage lasted three years. The icing on the cake was when he told me that he had a vasectomy just before he married me. He didn't want children, even though he knew that I did.
We fucked like rabbits for three years. He didn't tell me that he was sterile until after we signed the divorce papers in the lawyers office. If I had a gun, I would have shot him.
Then, when I started writing here, afraid to post a story under my real name, I wrote under BostonFictionWriter from 2007 to 2008 and under my brother's name, Freddie. I was scared to death to post here as a woman. Now, I proudly write under my real name, Susan Jill Parker.
Yet, even now, the emotional abuse continues with Sr71plt and TxRad continuing calling me a man and questioning my honesty and sexuality. These two men hate women. That's the only explanation that I have why they would act so hateful to me.
Good luck with your story.