Has Lit Corrupted Your Brain?

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Can you still do a story about a normal two person couple having mundane relations at home, in private?

Or must you have a twist or kink in every story?

Then again, would anyone read a 'normal' story?

 

[AlinaX]

I was watching Mock the Week last night and cuck chairs were a running theme. And peeing on people popped up as well. I guess I’m no longer someone who finds these things unusual.

 

[old_prof]

Can you still do a story about a normal two person couple having mundane relations at home, in private?

Or must you have a twist or kink in every story?

Then again, would anyone read a 'normal' story?

Several of my recent stories have been lesbian couples, but I'm not sure if you count that or not. Snow Fall in Love was a hetero couple in a romance. No real kinks. It's got 18K+ views so far and a 4.83 rating, so you can do fine with "normal" sex here. And if my FMC wasn't such a bitch, the rating would be higher.

I will admit I have a three-some (750) story and two large scale group sex stories (20 lumberjacks one woman in one and an orgy involving 12 people in the other) since then, and a BDSM story shortly before it.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The door opened, and Billy raced past her, saying, "Hi, Mom!" and then pounding up the stairs .

Her words chased him: "Hi, Bill ... ee." He was gone.

Jack came in the door, shaking his head and smiling a little as she turned to greet him with a hug. He kissed her on the cheek. "Hello, love. How'd the showing go?"

"Wrong house for the client. I have them again Wednesday, for a smaller place closer to the railroad station. How was your day?"

Or is that not what you meant?

--Annie

 

[SimonDoom]

I think I was corrupted before I started writing here, but yes, I think this is an issue.

So far, I haven't written any non-erotic fiction, but I could easily see it going this way:

I start writing a non-erotic story about a husband and wife trying to work their way through a marital crisis. They're sitting in the living room, talking things over.

Then I start thinking about the length of the wife's skirt. "It really ought to be shorter," I think. "Even shorter than that. I mean, doesn't she care about her husband's feelings?"

Pretty soon it's so short it doesn't cover her bum. "Better," I think. "This will help them bond again."

But I think, "The husband's not doing his part." So he takes his shirt off and stands still while the wife applies nipple clamps.

"This couple is meant for the long term," I think.

And so it goes.

 

[Comshaw]

Has Lit Corrupted Your Brain?​

Oh hell no. Life and a bunch of fucked up people managed to do that long before I ever meandered to this place.

Comshaw

 

[CalBishForNow]

If I can be pretentious about it for a minute, a writer should aspire to make their characters unique and distinct. Therefore there are (or should be) no normal, mundane characters; every character is (ideally) unique and special, even if it's as simple as the fantasies they enjoy while they go about their daily lives. A good writer can make Mr. and Mrs. Brady alluring; a bad writer can make James Bond boring. (It's called Dirk Pitt. But I digress.)

More seriously, I've never tried to write a story that's as simple as "two people go at it in missionary position at home and it feels good" before and I'm not inclined to try. I've also never tried to write a story about a mailman's daily route, a regular exercise routine in which everything goes as planned, or a conflict with no stakes. But most if not all my characters start out as normal and vanilla until the events of the story change things somehow. For the stories I'm publishing here, that generally involves making things kinkier. I guess it doesn't have to if I wanted to focus on other kinds of growth or conflict, but that's my interest.

Plenty of stories exist about people with more conventional sex lives, though. I'm not sure if this one counts, both because they've got a thing for roleplay in general and because it's "Part One" with no follow-up, but it mostly seems vanilla. This one definitely counts. It's in the Romance category and I'll bet many more stories there would count too.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Several of my recent stories have been lesbian couples, but I'm not sure if you count that or not.

I said 'two person' for a reason, so as not to be too specific and exclude anyone.

I think I was corrupted before I started writing here, but yes, I think this is an issue.

So far, I haven't written any non-erotic fiction, but I could easily see it going this way:

Doesn't have to be non-erotic.

Your couple could have a regular date night where they get dressed nice, go to dinner, come home, close the bedroom door ....

 

[SexMan1959]

my stories are pretty wild, I gotta say

 

[crookedletter]

In a word, no. At least, not in the way you're describing.

I've written stories where people have sex. I've written stories where they don't.

Sometimes I've set out to write something erotic, but it doesn't end up going in that direction. I don't have any problem with that; I just don't post it here.

Erotica, to me, is a genre of sorts, and I write in lots of genres, depending on my mood or what's stirring up my imagination. I might write about people who meet up and get along -- or don't -- and end up destroying the world for one reason or another. Or I might write about people who meet up and get along -- or don't -- and end up having pages and pages of sloppy sweaty sex.

As far as:

Then again, would anyone read a 'normal' story?

That's an interesting question. I have stuff out there in the "mainstream" fiction world. Not much, but some. It's much harder to get out there. And I honestly don't know if anyone ever reads it. I don't know of any places like Lit that are not Lit: places where you can post more or less without editorial review and selection, where your stories get thousands of eyes on them and ratings and feedback. Sending stories out into that world is like putting a message in a bottle and tossing it in the ocean.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Let's see... Two person normal couple. Have I written about those? Well, normal no....

But two person couple! Okay so she's getting ready for a date when her boyfriend calls and asks her to wear a monster buttplug. Ah, no that's not vanilla, especially since later the tentacles will come out. Ah I got one! He wakes her up in the middle of the night by braiding her hair, and then he ties her up... Guess still not vanilla. Oh I know! She goes up to his room to find him in an insatiable rut! Wait, no again, closer but still not there...

Maybe let's try couples that aren't pre-established? Hmmm, foot job, no. Tentacle sex, no. Ah I got it! She lures her oldest friend to her room and seduces him into realizing that she's a girl! But... They're orcs, so again maybe not...

Sorry I can't seem to write normal. But if it's any consolation I don't think lit had any influence on that.

 

[IWroteThis]

I think I was corrupted before I started writing here,

I KNOW I was corrupted long before I started writing here. Heck, I was corrupted before here was here. I can't even blame it on the Internet, as it was Usenet and alt.sex.stories that led me astray. Well, that led my writing astray. I went astray before I had access to Usenet.

As to the actual question asked, yes, I tend to find my mainstream writing tainted more since I embraced writing on Literotica. Luckily, mainstream today is such that I really just have to cut out the explicit stuff and just fade to black as they get started.

Of course, my dream of writing children's books is probably doomed, although there is a market for adult themed books written as if they were children's books, so who knows.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Can you still do a story about a normal two person couple having mundane relations at home, in private?

Most of my stories are what I call "suburban erotica," normal everyday people getting about their day-to-day lives, their cafés, the commute, the pretty barista to make their morning that bit brighter.

Or must you have a twist or kink in every story?

Rarely a twist, not that much drama or tension, but emotion, intimacy, connection. And the occasional kink, quietly happening. My current WIP is written around that idea, but it's more than that, I hope.

Then again, would anyone read a 'normal' story?

Not in their tens of thousands in the first week, they don't, but over time, I think people do. One reader wrote in a comment, "Your stories are like a safe haven, where I can forget about the world for a while, connect with my body while reading your words." I liked that comment, very humbling.

 

[InvisibleHarvey]

Can you still do a story about a normal two person couple having mundane relations at home, in private?

Or must you have a twist or kink in every story?

Then again, would anyone read a 'normal' story?

I think I write for a different reason than the writer you're imagining. I'm not trying to tell stories about real life or some idealized version of it.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I was definitely well corrupted well before encountering Literotica. But a two-person vanilla story - yes, I've done a couple of those.

Romance and First Time will include mostly that, though the story will generally be about how A and B got together and got round to the sex, rather than the sex itself. I could write a sweet story about married A and B going upstairs, but not sure many readers would appreciate the lack of plot - maybe some realisation that they are happy in their vanilla way could make it into a story? Obviously there are readers who want simple strokers, but they tend to be male and want more crude action.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Curious how it would go over in LW.

Maybe while they're out at dinner, a third wanders by, makes advances and is rebuffed.

They get back home and laugh about how 'did they really think they had a chance?'

 

[IWroteThis]

Curious how it would go over in LW.

Maybe while they're out at dinner, a third wanders by, makes advances and is rebuffed.

They get back home and laugh about how 'did they really think they had a chance?'

Actually, that sounds like something that GarySmith69 would write. His thing is the husband and wife being a team against the wanna-be interloper. He's not exclusive, but primarily posts in LW.

I don't think he has any HOT icons, but his scores tend to trend around 4* mark.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

Can you still do a story about a normal two person couple having mundane relations at home, in private?

Challenge accepted!

 

[MK_Whimsy]

I actually found myself wondering if publishing the kind of content I do would lead me to think, "Gosh, now that that's out of my system, I'm suddenly interested in normal things!" So far, that hasn't happened though.

 

[Dodola]

The opposite for me. I thought I liked reading sexy scenes, but after a reading for a while, I found that plot and romance, interesting characters, are what I really like. I often skip over the sex scenes now.

 

[LFM90]

Oh for sure! Definitely corrupted my brain

 

[anthrodisiac]

I wrote a few personal erotica a few people I was involved with, and they all featured me and them, which meant it was one normal human and a weirdo.

Besides that, I've written exactly one human/human story under a different username. It was pretty bad. Somehow has an H, but really subpar by my standards now. The rest of the stuff I wrote prior to writing here was transformation porn, so definitely not normal.

Now, if you expand the definiton of people to include non-humans, then yes, that's actually the bulk of my work here. A lot of hookups where they just go to one of their places and have sex. A magic goat spirit where they have sex in the guy's room. Nothing necessarily kinky, other than, you know, anthros.

...and monster girl torture porn. But just the once!*

*Twice if you count guy being punished by Icelandic cat spirit.

 

[Baztrachian]

my stories are pretty wild, I gotta say

You haven't posted a new story for twenty years. Come on. Write something new!

 

[SmilingLez]

I've been enjoying the non-erotic category. There are some excellent writers

 

[KittyOfSteele]

My heel, I started killing people in writing. I'd argue fucking people in writing is less problematic. Not that I don't indulge in literary crimes from time to time.

I should write dark romances for here once or twice now that I think about it...