Children in stories

[sr71plt]

I don't know why you are in a huff, because I agreed with you, at least the part that is highlighted. Then I clarified what you had said and added a comment of my own.

Because you are wrong in thinking that you clarified anything.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

On a slightly related note...

Why do people compare apples to oranges as if they are completely different?

They are both fruit, same shape, roughly the same pH...

Let us instead say... Apples to meteorites... Or Oranges to Euclidian Geometry...

As far as the actual content of the article... I'm not sure why there has to be a debate. I am perfectly fine with keeping my characters 18 or older. I've been scribbling my stories WELL before it was legal for me to be watching pornography. (or at least, for anyone to show it to me) The way it works, is I usually write characters that I can identify with. So when I was fourteen, I wrote characters that were 14-16 years old. When I was sixteen, I had characters between 16-18 years old. All of these stories were scribbled with horrible handwriting into the notebooks where I was supposed to be scribbling my math notes.

The way I see it, as long as everyone here is as old as they say they are, they shouldn't have the inclination to write as children, or even eighteen-year-olds for that matter. I noticed that the older I've become (listen to me... I sound so pretentious!) the harder it is to identify with fictional characters that are younger then me. I'm not sure how ANYBODY writes about characters younger then them without feeling utter contempt for them. Then again, I suppose a porn site filled with dirty old men wouldn't get a lot of traffic...

Anyway, I've been rambling a lot, but the summary...

Why should we quibble? We know it's against the law, and we don't want to get in trouble, or incriminate Literotica, and we don't want to add to the further sexualization of young children. There are enough pedos as it is... and if you JUST CANT STAND reading about people who are old enough to vote and join the armed forces... then read some goddamn hentai.

The japanese have far fewer restrictions when it comes to pornographic material involving minors... in one book I read, one of the sexually active characters was 8 years old!!!

Kinda made me stop... it was pretty good until a demon raped an eight-year-old boy.

 

[sr71plt]

Why should we quibble? We know it's against the law, and we don't want to get in trouble, or incriminate Literotica

*sigh* Writing about it isn't against the law. That's not relevant to the issue. And it's been mentioned about eleventy-seven times on this thread.

And "apples and oranges" (which I didn't use) is just an expression that everyone understands the use of.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

*sigh* Writing about it isn't against the law. That's not relevant to the issue. And it's been mentioned about eleventy-seven times on this thread.

And "apples and oranges" (which I didn't use) is just an expression that everyone understands the use of.

Well fine, maybe it isn't in the fine print, but do we really want to be writing about sexually immature teens who are too stupid to realize which end of the condom is which? I was one of those teens less then a year ago, and I look back on that time with regret and horror.

 

[sr71plt]

Well fine, maybe it isn't in the fine print, but do we really want to be writing about sexually immature teens who are too stupid to realize which end of the condom is which? I was one of those teens less then a year ago, and I look back on that time with regret and horror.

Beats me. That's an entirely different issue than any discussed on this thread thus far--so it isn't really a "yes, but" to my response to your post.

If you're writing a piece set in the European Middle Ages (or much more recent in many other areas of the world), I suppose you'd want to write teens having sex--because they were doing it a lot earlier then, not least because most of them would be dead before they got much older. It becomes laughable to try to write historical settings with today's morality as a limitation. It's all relative.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Well fine, maybe it isn't in the fine print, but do we really want to be writing about sexually immature teens who are too stupid to realize which end of the condom is which? I was one of those teens less then a year ago, and I look back on that time with regret and horror.

Actually, I often write about teenagers. Sometimes they appear in stories in the Mature or First Time categories, and one of my most recent stories is "Teenager's Ass." However, I always take pains to describe the age of the teenagers as 18 or 19.

 

[emipet]

I could never then write my autobiography for Lit.

 

[PennLady]

Well fine, maybe it isn't in the fine print, but do we really want to be writing about sexually immature teens who are too stupid to realize which end of the condom is which? I was one of those teens less then a year ago, and I look back on that time with regret and horror.

Apparently some people would if given the chance. Over at StoriesOnline.net (SOL), where they have far fewer restrictions, I saw plenty of stories involving kids, some as young as twelve. I believe they may be a bit stricter now on the ages but you can still write about underage over there. You have to remember that people who write and read those stories on sites like this get turned on by them, condoms or not. That's why they get written.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I know that people are turned on by teens... I just don't understand why.

I understand the physical reasons, sure... But we WRITE, so it's not about the images so much. When we write, we have to include social dynamics, and those are what turn me off to teenagers.

Maybe for strokers where you want a tight buxom lass of sixteen, I could understand... But if you had a story that had any kind of development or story arc, you would have to deal with all of a teenager's insecurity and shallowness and (lets be frank) pigheaded stupidity. I'm not out of that valley yet, and I acknowledge it.

I AM stupid, I AM shallow, and frankly, I don't think I'm mature enough right now to have a meaningful and loving relationship.

And that's part of the reason why I don't think that its morally right to write about teenagers. They (we) as a demographic, are mostly too immature to form a meaningful bond with an adult. There are always exceptions... there are fourteen-year-olds wise beyond their years and seventy-year-olds that have the brains of gofers... But in general, any kind of may-september relationship with young teens feels like exploitation.

As to where the line is drawn, I actually think that eighteen is a pretty good marker because it marks a huge change in responsibility. I'm far from mature, but I still realize how much I've grown in the past year because of the new responsibilities I've taken on. I pay a good portion of my own bills, I go to college, I have far more free time, to use or squander as I wish... Plenty of people who are eighteen are still too sexually and emotionally immature to engage in a meaningful relationship, but it's where society forces you to become something of an adult, and your entire attitude towards life can shift radically.

Of course, I'm talking about mature sexual relationships... and frankly, with all of the threesome and swinger and incest stories... maybe I'm just wasting my time.