I would really love to see...

[ArnaldoBC]

...Stories following the same line of the best erotic story (for me) I have ever read: "Unable To Move", written by one "Herhubby", in the Kristen Archives site.

THAT really got my blood pumping.

I don't know if there is a problem about posting the link to the original story... I'm guessing no, so I'll post it here. If there is a problem I will remove it:

[URL removed by the OP]

 

[Abbafan]

...Stories following the same line of the best erotic story (for me) I have ever read: "Unable To Move", written by one "Herhubby", in the Kristen Archives site.

THAT really got my blood pumping.

I don't know if there is a problem about posting the link to the original story... I'm guessing no, so I'll post it here. If there is a problem I will remove it:

https://www.asstr.org/~Kristen/25/hallow08.txt

That's actually against the rules. No linking to Literotica competitors.

 

[ArnaldoBC]

Oh, thanks. I will delete it.
Never thought of Kristen's as Literotica's competitor.

That's actually against the rules. No linking to Literotica competitors.

 

[sirhugs]

That's actually against the rules. No linking to Literotica competitors.

Lit has competitors?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I thought ASSTR(did I get that right?) was shut down?

 

[jaF0]

I thought ASSTR(did I get that right?) was shut down?

It was down for a few days, but came back up. There is also a Kirtsen stand alone site, but the problem there is many of them are not Litable.

As for the OP, use the basic premise (without excessive detail) and write your own story.

 

[gunhilltrain]

That's actually against the rules. No linking to Literotica competitors.

Another one of Lit's quirks, but that's the way it is. I don't think of them as "competitors," but it is not my site.

It reminds me of, "Does Macy's tell Gimbel's? (US, dated, colloquial, rhetorical question.) A rhetorical question with the implied answer being that competitors do not share business secrets with one another." (Gimbel's used to be two blocks from the other store.) I think my parents used to say that expression.

Except, do sites like this truly have business secrets, or at least secrets available to their users?

 

[gunhilltrain]

It was down for a few days, but came back up. There is also a __________ stand-alone site, but the problem there is many of them are not Litable.

As for the OP, use the basic premise (without excessive detail) and write your own story.

So people went ahead and mentioned the competitors anyway.

Since they already did, I have a question about the first one that was shut down. (I guess this is a business secret?) I'm not really interested in posting there (some of it violates my sense of decency), but I looked at it. And I can't figure out the technical details of posting there. Does anybody know? PM me if you wish.

 

[LupusDei]

Another one of Lit's quirks, but that's the way it is. I don't think of them as "competitors," but it is not my site.

Apples and oranges compete as fruits. Like, if you want an apple, but have to invest effort to get one while an orange happens at hand, you may settle for that instead, but if you have both you have a choice.

That's the perceived risk here. Even if possibly presenting different standards and thus different market segmentation, that, and other sites are still competition in the simple sense that they do host erotic stories. And it's not like there's no overlap at all. Even if anything, while Lit may have advantages in library size over some, or relative ease of search over other (badly broken by many years of neglect), that's the other sites that may potentially provide in segments Lit doesn't host. That's a potential competitor discovery risk right there.

It's not exclusive Literotica quirk either. For example on some other site that also has alive forum (even if significantly less active) mention of Lit would see your post automatically deleted. Don't know how it's elsewhere, but probably pretty much industry standards.

 

[ArnaldoBC]

I actually could. Maybe I do. And believe it or not it would be a real history. Because something similar actually happened to my wife in the first year or two of our marriage.
Well, let's say 50% similar. And the "supernatural" part being actually only in her dreams. Still, it was something interesting to see.

EDIT: Hey! Maybe that phase of our life is why that story makes me so aroused!

It was down for a few days, but came back up. There is also a Kirtsen stand alone site, but the problem there is many of them are not Litable.

As for the OP, use the basic premise (without excessive detail) and write your own story.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Apples and oranges compete as fruits. Like, if you want an apple, but have to invest effort to get one while an orange happens at hand, you may settle for that instead, but if you have both you have a choice.

That's the perceived risk here. Even if possibly presenting different standards and thus different market segmentation, that, and other sites are still competition in the simple sense that they do host erotic stories. And it's not like there's no overlap at all. Even if anything, while Lit may have advantages in library size over some, or relative ease of search over other (badly broken by many years of neglect), that's the other sites that may potentially provide in segments Lit doesn't host. That's a potential competitor discovery risk right there.

It's not exclusive Literotica quirk either. For example on some other site that also has alive forum (even if significantly less active) mention of Lit would see your post automatically deleted. Don't know how it's elsewhere, but probably pretty much industry standards.

The sites can do whatever they wish, and I respect that, but it's kind of hard to think of them as an "industry." As in most other businesses the product eventually becomes a commodity, and the differences among them are quite small. Eventually everybody knows all the players and whatever the differences are. I guess it's sort of like automobiles, or airliners, or software. There are only a few companies that really compete, and they're all basically offering a similar product.