In response to some negative feedback

[Lustin Kink]

Recently I received the below feedback on my story "A Little Lust Between Friends Ch. 2". I thought about deleting it from the public comments but as this site is such a strong supporter of freedom of expression, the comment will stay.

"Anyone who wrote this or called this great only revealed how unhealthy their psyche is. The story was truly queer in being man hating and woman whoring, both of which shows a dark soul with an agenda to hurt others.
And for some advice, leave the Jesus Christ out of your stories as you will be dealing with Him soon enough. It is completely tasteless to use His Name as you are the antithesis of everything He was about.
No Bible thumping, just historical fact, but that is all lost on someone so caught up in spewing your darkest persona into print. "

The reader who left this feedback chose to remain anonymous as was his/her right. This was disappointing to me as I would like to have an opportunity to respond to such strong words.

First, my psyche is just fine and I am very well adjusted although my mind may work in perverted ways. It humors me in that you call my story "man hating" as I am a man. Woman whoring? Well, yeah. That's how Jenna and Sheila are and that's the way they like it. I have no agenda to bring pain to anyone and I have never intentionally hurt anyone else in my life. As far as using the Lord's name in my story, apparently you have never pleasured someone to point of them screaming out to the Almighty. Trust me, that does happen in real life. Oh, and I have no fears about what will happen to my soul in the afterlife.

I find it amazing that, as much as you hated my story, you read through it all and took the time to beat me up afterward. What does that say about your psyche? I detect a little self-repression there. My advice to you is to stick to your fire and brimstone and leave the erotica to those that can handle it. I say to you, dear disgruntled reader, as I do to all my readers, thank you for your feedback.

~Lustin Kink

 

[Guest]

So sorry you got one of the "You're gonna burn in hell" comments.

Every once in awhile someone bombs many of the top-ranking stories and leaves comments about how we all need Jesus to save our souls.

*sigh*

It's funny how they damn you for having written the erotica yet even though they are looking at pornography they feel they remain sin-free. I always wonder what that type of person is doing surfing a porn site. Maybe they tell themselves they are saving souls, but I personally think they're just looking for stroke material.

I would delete that comment because it may spoil the enjoyment of your story for other readers. It isn't censorship, just good taste.

 

[Joe Powers 1122]

As I read stuff like this I'm surprised because I havent recieved 1 piece of feedback yet myself and I just added chapter 2 to my Saturday Morning story.

I dont think in my opinion that anyone has to or should have to defend what he or she writes.

Write what you like, write your expierences, write what turns you on and I'll bet you'll get good and bad....just the way this world works...

 

[Lustin Kink]

Thank you Joe and Sarah for your support. You can bet I'll keep writing as I do. One bash isn't going to slow me down. Oh, and Sarah, I took your advice and deleted the public comment although it's not something I plan to make a habit of.

 

[elsol]

Don't worry...

Soon (relatively speaking) I plan to start a firestorm by doing my homage to 'Paradise Lost'. Angels, God, Jesus, the Holy Ghost; the whole SHE-BANG is going in!

I can't wait to see what the bible-thumpers have to say... especially 'cause I'm Catholic and I've never quite been able to get over the "You're not Catholic, why aren't you our carousing and stuff... you're going to hell."

The Catholics will also have fun... cause I think we're worse than pagans. 'Drink of my blood and eat of my flesh!'

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Guest]

Thank you Joe and Sarah for your support. You can bet I'll keep writing as I do. One bash isn't going to slow me down. Oh, and Sarah, I took your advice and deleted the public comment although it's not something I plan to make a habit of.

Good for you!

But you have the choice. I've left the critical comments up on some of my things but have removed a few inflammatory anonymous ones.

Those serve no purpose, because anonymous is usually a dickless troll.

 

[dcraig]

Recently I received the below feedback on my story "A Little Lust Between Friends Ch. 2". I thought about deleting it from the public comments but as this site is such a strong supporter of freedom of expression, the comment will stay.

"Anyone who wrote this or called this great only revealed how unhealthy their psyche is. The story was truly queer in being man hating and woman whoring, both of which shows a dark soul with an agenda to hurt others.
And for some advice, leave the Jesus Christ out of your stories as you will be dealing with Him soon enough. It is completely tasteless to use His Name as you are the antithesis of everything He was about.
No Bible thumping, just historical fact, but that is all lost on someone so caught up in spewing your darkest persona into print. "

The reader who left this feedback chose to remain anonymous as was his/her right. This was disappointing to me as I would like to have an opportunity to respond to such strong words.

First, my psyche is just fine and I am very well adjusted although my mind may work in perverted ways. It humors me in that you call my story "man hating" as I am a man. Woman whoring? Well, yeah. That's how Jenna and Sheila are and that's the way they like it. I have no agenda to bring pain to anyone and I have never intentionally hurt anyone else in my life. As far as using the Lord's name in my story, apparently you have never pleasured someone to point of them screaming out to the Almighty. Trust me, that does happen in real life. Oh, and I have no fears about what will happen to my soul in the afterlife.

I find it amazing that, as much as you hated my story, you read through it all and took the time to beat me up afterward. What does that say about your psyche? I detect a little self-repression there. My advice to you is to stick to your fire and brimstone and leave the erotica to those that can handle it. I say to you, dear disgruntled reader, as I do to all my readers, thank you for your feedback.

~Lustin Kink

My friend, I am so saddened to see you also have been subjected to much of the same malice that Windstormy also recieved at the end of his new chaper. Only his came by three different ppl. It is even sadder that this type of malicious feedback cannot be monitored and dealt with somehow.

However, I find your reply to it very refreshing. It brought a very large grin to my face. And I would also concur with your theory of them.

 

[Boxlicker101]

My friend, I am so saddened to see you also have been subjected to much of the same malice that Windstormy also recieved at the end of his new chaper. Only his came by three different ppl. It is even sadder that this type of malicious feedback cannot be monitored and dealt with somehow.

However, I find your reply to it very refreshing. It brought a very large grin to my face. And I would also concur with your theory of them.

It can be monitored and dealt with. Lustin can delete it if he wants. I don't know if anything can be done about the one-bomb that probably accompanied it, though.

 

[Sigmund_Freud]

Yeah, that stuff ain't worth the electrons that carried it. And geez, myself, I post under BDSM -- no one's condemned me to hell yet. I'm kinda dissappointed...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Yeah, that stuff ain't worth the electrons that carried it. And geez, myself, I post under BDSM -- no one's condemned me to hell yet. I'm kinda dissappointed...

I post all over. Nobody had condemned me to Hell yet either but I have been called some very nasty things because of the things that some of my characters do.

 

[zeb1094]

I too am a new writer to Literotica and have received negative feed back from "one" anonymous reader. The thing that got me was he/she actually took the time to finish reading the series and comment on each and every chapter.

I knew it was the same person because of the wording and context of each message as you can see in the examples below.

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One
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"Well you had me on chapter 1 but now I see you are into self cuckolding
which is about as sick as a weak deviant half man can get - pimping out
your whore wife is about as disrespectful as anyone could fantasize or
actually do.

Sick puppy litle one - get some help soon. Now you know why the
scoring dropped sick one."

Two
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"Now it's not only sick self cuckolding but the writing, speeeeling and
word choices are bad - perhaps more so or maybe I just didn't notice
before.

Non-the-less, you have some talent and it's a shame you have spent all
this time on such a subhuman perverted disrespectful subject that
should be in FETISH.

Sick shit little sicko."

Three
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"Now that this is getting sillier and stupider it is somewhat less
offensive but still very sick little sicko.

What a waste - sad"

Four
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"Funny you mention family in your bio. Funny parculiar I mean as with
your words and story you may have caused one or more weak or young
spouses to try this perhaps against thier will but went along as they
trusted thier spouse.

However, the few truly numb jaded sicko's will love you for a while -
pump you up - then go on to someone more deviant - as the need
progresses - kinda like drugs (ya for you too)- addiction comes in many
forms doesn't it little sick one!

So now you are cultivating a very sick following with ruined lives at
your doorstep - you think not - read your other messages little sick
one - the weak are easily influenced and are you then proud - only if
you don't have a conscience - do you not little sick one?

Grow up - get some help - hopefully your wife has more sense than you
(with disrespect for you on her mind).

But what the hell - live each day and burn tomarrow or the next day -
it will come soon - reality that is for what you have done and what you
contemplate."

Five
-----
"What a shame as the sickness spews forth - what are you? Hardly erotic
- just a sick deviant trying to influence others - get some help little
sick one!!!"

Six
---
"Too late for the Dallas type dream little sick one - the story sucked
big time and the ending worse - how embarrassed are you still???

Quit demeaning - get some real - think about it for 12 to 15 years -
then consider writing again after having a dream that involved some
respect for your people and yourself!"


I couldn't help but laugh as the emails rolled in after each chapter was posted. It's obvious that he/she has a problem with fiction, as this is what it was, yet took the time to read each and every word I wrote.

Then left the mis-spellings and typos, which he complains about in my stories, in his/her emails. What a joke.


http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=292878&page=submissions

 

[susurrus]

My take on the whole thing is:

No matter how inflammatory or praising a piece of feedback is, if the person who created it is too embarrassed about their own comment to put their name to it, then it isn't worth considering. Yes, the positive ones feel better, but the more vehement a feedback is, whether it's a "Your story sucked" or "You're the best writer I've ever read," if the person writing it doesn't have balls enough to stand behind his own words by telling you who he is, he isn't worth your time.

And if he's so uptight that a few "Jesus Christs" grind on him, why is he reading this stuff in the first place?

As well, you are right (in my opinion) to thank this person, whoever he, she or it may be. The time was taken to spout this vitriol, and that must be acknowledged. You handled the situation with grace and thought, which is more than can be said about the feedback in the first place.

 

[caramelgirl_2]

My advice is to always take negative and positive feedback with a grain of salt. It is a way to calibrate if your writing was successful for what you intended as well as to see what readers were interested and what they were interested in.
So far, my writing for Literotica has been to done to please myself. Sometimes I have written with a particular subject in mind to please someone else, but it's usually been a mutual interest.
I recieved my first negative feedback here and I found it useful, because it showed me that something I wrote hit a nerve. The funny thing was that the anonymous responder also assumed it was ME and not the character who felt that way.
I have begun writing on Literotica again because I like the freedom of not having to censor myself on what I want to write. I certainly won't let a comment by someone other than Laurel and Manu do that.
Don't let it get you down. Imagine getting feedback face to face. A writer has to develop thick skin while keeping his/her ears open. Take it in stride, and keep writing, my friend

 

[caramelgirl_2]

Post Script:
Imagine all the writers who never would have been read if they let the response of one or many people stop them from writing what they felt?
I immediately think of Henry Miller, JD Salinger, William Burroughs. I know there are many many MANY more.

 

[fletch55102]

What purpose do we serve?

And if he's so uptight that a few "Jesus Christs" grind on him, why is he reading this stuff in the first place?

Maybe he only comes here to torture himself. Maybe we sick, deviant souls are his hair shirt, his method of self-flagellation. And god bless us all for whipping him, and spanking him, and pinching his nipples and... is it getting warm in here? I'm sure I had a point...

-Fletch

 

[Guest]

Maybe he only comes here to torture himself. Maybe we sick, deviant souls are his hair shirt, his method of self-flagellation. And god bless us all for whipping him, and spanking him, and pinching his nipples and... is it getting warm in here? I'm sure I had a point...

-Fletch

Please continue.

Especially about the spanking part.

 

[Bitch2003]

Keep writing Lustin! If they are not looking to read these kind of stories, then they should not be here.

I can't offer much advise, all I can say is I have enjoyed your writing.

 

[fletch55102]

Spanking

Please continue.

Especially about the spanking part.

Well, I'd be happy to oblige you with a nice spank, but maybe it's a bit off subject...?

-Fletch

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Keep writing Lustin! If they are not looking to read these kind of stories, then they should not be here.

They have to be here. It is their duty to be here. Who else is better qualified to protect us from ourselves? Surely you do not believe they come here because they enjoy it?! Someone has to do the 'dirty' work.

I am sure their disarming and diplomatic approach to bring everyone back into the fold truly showed us the error of your ways. Resolve had to have been dissolved like sugar in 'holy' water.

Hallelujah! Welcome back to the light!

 

[Lustin Kink]

Zeb,

It's relieving to know I'm not the only one. I read through all the comments you received and here's my take: Seeing as your reader took the time to read six chapters of your story and beat you up on each one, I'm thinking your reader was probably masturbating over your story the whole time and felt the need to chastise you to negate some deep seated guilt he/she felt for enjoying what could be interpreted as taboo. If you look at it that way, it's quite a compliment.

Keep writing.
Lustin Kink

 

[zeb1094]

Zeb,

It's relieving to know I'm not the only one. I read through all the comments you received and here's my take: Seeing as your reader took the time to read six chapters of your story and beat you up on each one, I'm thinking your reader was probably masturbating over your story the whole time and felt the need to chastise you to negate some deep seated guilt he/she felt for enjoying what could be interpreted as taboo. If you look at it that way, it's quite a compliment.

Keep writing.
Lustin Kink

Thank Lustin, that's just how I took it as I wasn't standing over him with a gun to his head to make him read 'the nasty' stuff I wrote.

I do plan on writting more, some more erotic than what he read and some not quiet as erotic.

Thanks again, Keep writting.

Zeb