HELP! How do you contact these people??

[smartiepants123123]

I submitted a story to this site which was rejected. The only thing listed under the reason was:

Did your story contain sex with a persons under the age of 18?

It went further to say if I had any more questions after reading the submission guidelines to let them know.

Well, couple of problems here....

1) My story made absolutely no mention of anyones age (and before you say well, that's the problem, I have already had one story approved and published on this site that did not contain any age reference either)

2) Nowhere can I find an e-mail link or anything to contact these people to let them know that I do have further questions.

Can anyone help me get in contact with these people? I mean, I find it hard to believe that we would be at the whim of a few editors (webmasters)..whatever...because they want to put a spin on a story that was not intended.

Help please.... Thank you!

 

[minsue]

Try sending a PM to Laurel. Go to any of the stickies at the top of the page. They are posted by Laurel. At the bottom of the post there are buttons including one to PM the person who's post your looking at.

You might want to be a bit more considerate in your PM than you were in your post, but that's just me. If nothing else, I'd suggest not using the phrase "you people" or "these people" or anything along those lines.

Good luck!

- Mindy

 

[KillerMuffin]

Possible age related rejections:

If your story mentions dates that don't add up to over 18. Sometimes people will have their parents divorce when they're 12 and then four years later have sex.

If the character isn't at least a senior in high school. If I'm not mistaken, that's Sixth Form in the UK, this can lead to a rejection.

If you describe the character's body in a fashion that's not consistent with adulthood, you can get a rejection, particularly if the character behaves childishly. For example, a "little girl" with a hairless vagina or words or phrases that give off the idea that the character's body is still "developing" or "growing".

If you have adult characters engaged in "ageplay", this usually nets a rejection as well.

 

[snooper]

... If the character isn't at least a senior in high school. If I'm not mistaken, that's Sixth Form in the UK, this can lead to a rejection...

Sixth Form entry in the UK is usually sixteen, so by the end of second year Sixth, or Year 12 as some schools call it, they can be 18.

This causes problems at some schools where drinking beer is allowed on the premises, because 18 is the legal age for alcohol.

It causes no problems about sex IN THE UK because the age of consent is 16. I do understand that on planet Literotica not even married couples know sex exists until they are both eighteen.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think that even if you don't mention ages, the fact that the story involves a guy picking a girl up at the playground is a hint that MAYBE the characters aren't as old as they should be.
Atleast not if the girl puts down her toys and follows the nice man. Could be perfectly innocent, yes, could be a grown woman masturbating with a couple of different vibrators in an abandoned playground, but just to be sure, you might want to add something like "she took his hand, and asked him `your car or mine?´"

 

[Svenskaflicka]

If you have adult characters engaged in "ageplay", this usually nets a rejection as well.

If I'd write about a 45-year-old woman's birthday party, were she gets a Brazilian wax, and then has sex with her husband, and he touches her hairless vagina and calls her his little girl, would that be rejectable?

 

[NoJo]

Depends how you wrote it, Sven




skaflicka.

 

[smartiepants123123]

The UK has schools that allow drinking? Don't tell that to the American kids....they'll be flocking over there in droves.

And, as hesitant as I am to show ingorance, I'm really not sure what a Brazillian wax is...? ~

The point of my original post was that there was no indication of an under-18 participant. No playground, no mention of what year of school..nothing.

However, I did get the person who rejected the story to send me a note that said the title "Daddy's Little Girl Gets Ravished" indicated she was under 18 and since I did not state anywhere in the story that she was 18 or older, it was rejected.

Now, my main question would be, why would anybody submit a story intending for any of the participants to be under 18 when the rules clearly have stated that all must be over 18. To my way of thinking, since that is the rule, that should also be the assumption. Call me crazy....

 

[NoJo]

Brazilian Wax

No drinking till you're eighteen in England. So you have stay into the 6th form. I did. We weren't allowed to drink during school hours. But we used to go down to the pub at lunchtime anyway, and see some of our teachers there, who were also not allowed to drink during school time! So we all got away with it.

 

[MNGuy]

The universal standard opening lines for a story should include the bold text:

Doug was a strapping cowboy with a twelve inch cock, and he was over eighteen . When he first saw Prahamashikvu, the very essence of a Hindu goddess, and she was also over eighteen , he immediately got a boner.

 

[Madame Manga]

And, as hesitant as I am to show ingorance, I'm really not sure what a Brazillian wax is...? ~

Now, my main question would be, why would anybody submit a story intending for any of the participants to be under 18 when the rules clearly have stated that all must be over 18. To my way of thinking, since that is the rule, that should also be the assumption. Call me crazy....

Brazilian wax: a beauty-parlor procedure that rips out all your pubic hair by the roots except for a strip on the mons. Obviously, this leaves people's genitals smooth and pre-pubescent in appearance. And their owners screaming in pain, but that's beside the point.

The Lit age rule is not one of assumption. It is construed in the strictest possible way. The ages of the characters must be positively stated, especially when there could be even the slightest ambiguity. It must be obvious to the slowest intellect that no minors are being portrayed in sexual acts. Lit has to defend itself against the sort of people who would *love* to be able to misconstrue what is posted here.

MM

 

[snooper]

The UK has schools that allow drinking? ...

Yes. Some boarding schools even have their own licensed bars which are member-only clubs for staff and pupils.

... Don't tell that to the American kids....they'll be flocking over there in droves. ...

I am always surprised that the US is so illogical about drinking, and the UK somewhat the same.
The way to avoid wild drunken parties among young people suddenly let loose on alcohol is for them to learn to handle it the same way as any other facet of life, start young and in small quantities. We even do that with solid food, so why should alcohol be any different?

No drinking till you're eighteen in England.

That only applies in public licenced premises. My kids started to have watered wine with meals at home from about ten to twelve years old.

Now why alcohol and nicotine should be selected as legal addictive substances while mosty of the others are illegal ... that is a wholly different topic.