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[Hypoxia]

I tried raising this question in a couple of attempted threadjackings but got no reply so I'll try a separate thread.

I'm curious about the LIT position on mental capacity in stories like BIG where a minor awakens in an adult body. The mechanism might be magic or a coma. I've read at least one such LIT story, highly rated; magic was the trick there. I'm considering writing of a well-tended comatose kid awakening at 18 with a prepubescent mind. But that's cutting it close -- it may have to be tragedy.

Do other authors see ethical problems here?

I do NOT wish to skirt the 18 rule. I claim no insights into immature mentalities. If anything, high-school seniors in my tales are too emotionally mature. But the prospect of tracing their sudden forced maturity intrigues me. I'm ambivalent.

 

[Carnevil9]

I think the only meaningful answer to your question must be a ruling from the Board Sachems. We could debate the ethics and morality or immorality of depicting underage sex in a story (by either bending or ignoring the rules) until the tentacled cows come home, but it would be an exercise in futility. Everyone has a different opinion, none of which would be likely to be changed, and certainly none of which will actually matter as far as Lit publishing rules go.

 

[sr71plt]

Only Laurel can answer this for Literotica. That's probably why you haven't been getting an answer from anyone else on it. It would be wasted breath.

Personally, I would say that if they are past puberty, they have basic biological sexual needs that shouldn't be blanket denied and it becomes an "it depends" on how these are met.

 

[PervOtaku]

The best metric I've ever seen suggested is to ask what age person would be needed to play the character in a movie.

So, for instance, in a Freaky Friday scenario, daughter-in-mom's-body would be okay for sexual activity while mom-in-daughter's-body would be a no go.

I think the theory is that pedophile readers are looking for the imagery of an underage person having sex, though since we're talking prose here, you would think that the behavior of the underage character also plays a role. At least one erotica site extends the no-under-18 rule to include characters that are explicitly said to be 18 but are shown to have a strong lack of knowledge about sex in the way an under-18 person being molested might.

As was said, Laurel would have to make the ruling to know for sure.