Interracial tag

[NaughteeDragon]

Working on a multi-chapter story that features a couple of interracial couples (black female/white male and Latina/white male). The fact that they are interracial is irrelevant to the story. However, there are a couple of times I point out the difference for aesthetic reasons

She watched her husband in the mirror, taking in his pale, handsome face and his short orangish-red hair. She loved the way the freckled skin of his pale arms looked against the deep purple of her dress and the black of her skin

...he watched her dark lips swallow him. It was the first time he’d ever been with a black woman and he thought the sight of her dark pussy taking his cock was beautiful.

This is a multi-chapter story that will be in group sex or T/I. Should I include the Interracial tag for this chapter of the story.

 

[THBGato]

Up to you. Lots of my stories feature couples of different ethnic backgrounds, I've never bothered to tag them as such. Have you explore other stories with that tag to see if they have a similar vibe to yours?

 

[Britva415]

The tag? Sure.

You're putting it in a category other than IR for reasons you already decided upon, but it doesn't sound like the story would satisfy the category because you aren't really leaning in to the IR aspect, which is what category readers would expect.

As a tag, though, I don't think it would subvert expectations.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Working on a multi-chapter story that features a couple of interracial couples (black female/white male and Latina/white male). The fact that they are interracial is irrelevant to the story. However, there are a couple of times I point out the difference for aesthetic reasons

This is a multi-chapter story that will be in group sex or T/I. Should I include the Interracial tag for this chapter of the story.

I would. It's a single tag, but might draw readers who otherwise might not be interested.

"orangish red hair" though, that's a bit clunky. Make up your mind what colour his hair is!

 

[Kumquatqueen]

IME it can draw more readers to a story in another category, but unless it's a mix the main IR readership find appealing (big black male, white woman, or East Asian woman, white man) they mostly won't appreciate it.

I had a story with a 4.88 rating for a few months. Since then, most readers have found it via the 'interracial' tag, and let's just say they don't seem to be fans of British Bangladeshi men, and definitely not a gay man getting together with a lesbian (Laurel wisely put it in Fetish, where readers expect any manner of weird). But a few found it 'refreshingly different'.

I've put 'gay interracial' as a tag, but the GM audience comment so little it's hard to tell if any care.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

In my opinion, it depends upon the context of the interracial elements. The fact that you have diverse racial characters in relationships in itself wouldn't justify a tag calling it out.

I the first excerpt provided by the OP, the benefit of a tag is questionable. I have several stories where interracial characters appreciate attributes of one anther, but since there is no detailed sexual activities between them, I didn't see any benefit to tagging the stories as having interracial content. I felt that to do so would be misleading to readers who sought interracial sex in a story.

However, with the second excerpt, that would benefit the readers to include the tag.

Obviously, you can't tag sections of a story, so if it has sexual acts between different races anywhere in it, use the tag.

 

[cw5523729]

I think it could go either way. On the one hand, there isn't much danger in tagging it and more information is always better than less. On the other hand, I feel tagging it as such implies a much more extensive level of interracial content than 1 character happens to be black and 1 happens to be white.

Since you mention that being interracial is irrelevant otherwise, if you could take the story, do a find and replace for the word "black" with "white" (or whatever) and it changes nothing else in the story, then what is the point?

 

[TheLobster]

I wouldn't use the literal "interracial" tag. Instead, I'd go to the Interracial category and check what is the most popular spelling of the particular coupling you're writing about (black female + white male).

Even so, this is still under the assumption that you have several more fragments like that second one. Otherwise I probably wouldn't bother.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

Thank you everyone for your input. I think I’m going to leave it out. It is not central to the story, but I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t something that people freak out about when they see it, like non-con or T/I.