just a little bit of incest...?

[GrushaVashnadze]

I wonder if some of the more experienced Literoticians here could advise me on which category I would be best advised to put the next chapter of my novel Alison Goes to London in? This chapter contains a short section of incest (sister-brother blowjob) set in the context of a futuristic dystopia, and provoked by emotional trauma. But most of the sex in the chapter is not in that vein - and this is the only section of incest in the entire novel. (Other chapters so far have gone into anal, group sex, lesbian and, most recently, erotic horror.)

Some people on this site seem to suggest that incest is such a sensitive topic that the slightest mention of it should put the whole chapter into the incest category. Is that the case? Would I be courting disapproval by trying to submit it under "group sex" (which is what most of the chapter is)?

Thanking you in advance for your advice.

Grusha

 

[Rohitsharm3339]

Can you write a novel on incest of mother son story. ?

 

[BiscuitHammer]

It may not sound fair, true, but incest tends to be a 'trump' fetish, if you will. A whiff of it will enrage some readers, who want it shunted off to I/T as a result.

My Mike & Karen series is a romance, that's where I had it originally. It covers more categories than you can shake a stick at, but it is, without question, a romance. But a secondary couple in the story is involved in an incestuous relationship, and some slope-headed Pakled got triggered and whined at the powers-that-be, succeeding in getting it moved to I/T.

I hope that doesn't happen to your story, it really depends on how prominent the brother-sister beej scene is. If people come away from the story remembering that scene the most, getting shunted to I/T is likely.

If it's a brief memory, it will possibly slip through. If it's a whole scene, especially if the story isn't a long one...

Like I said, not fair, but reader tyranny counts here, unfortunately. It'll come down to framing that scene. Best of luck. Where the savage and often vicious consumers of free porn are concerned, you may need it.

- The Mighty Biscuit Hammer

 

[ElectricBlue]

When you submit it, advise Laurel of your preferred category, and she'll consider it.

Despite what some folk think, she does allow incest stories in other categories - stories like yours, where incest is a secondary theme - and will put an incest warning at the top of the story.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

When you submit it, advise Laurel of your preferred category, and she'll consider it.

Despite what some folk think, she does allow incest stories in other categories - stories like yours, where incest is a secondary theme - and will put an incest warning at the top of the story.

I'm gonna message her and see if she'd put Mike & Karen back in Romance.

 

[8letters]

I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't skip around categories. If the series is primarily Group Sex, all the chapters should be Group Sex. If you publish it in I/T, no one will read it as they aren't going to want to read as their entree into your novel the eleventh chapter, and they aren't going to want to read ten chapters of non-I/T to get to the one I/T chapter. And if they did read it, they'd give it a low rating as your story isn't a love story between family members that the I/T crowd is looking for. At this point, your readers are those that have followed you primarily through your Group Sex chapters, so an I/T chapter in Group Sex series isn't going to freak them out.

 

[SimonDoom]

Read this before proceeding further: https://literotica.com/s/love-your-readers-categories.

This article is the "Bible" on categorization at Literotica. It explains better than anything else can how you should approach your choice of category.

I agree with 8Letters. In my opinion, an erotic story should have an erotic focus, and if you want to explore different kinks and categories you are better off writing separate stories than trying to wrap them into one continuous story. Others have different opinions, and there's no right or wrong, but if you care about reader response then I think writing separate stories is the way to go.

 

[yowser]

I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't skip around categories. If the series is primarily Group Sex, all the chapters should be Group Sex.

I agree with this in principle, but there may be some exceptions to consider, and it may depend on what you want out of your stories with respect to scores, readership, etc.

One example: I have a couple multi-part LW series, with most of the series indexed in that category (certainly the first chapter, as that is the main topic) but a few chapters had themes better represented in other categories, so I placed them there.

Two things happened with this:

1. Scores increased measurably (duh), a .5 star or more gain in the non-LW sections (same story, same writing, same characters, just a more tolerant readership), a greater chance of scoring the sought-after Red H.

2. Potentially a wider audience for your series; if a reader likes one of your 'off-topic' chapters in the series, they may go back to the beginning and start from chapter one.

 

[GrushaVashnadze]

Thanks, everyone, for your responses to my original question. You have given me a lot to think about.

This thread seems to have morphed into a discussion of a different question - to what extent one is wise to "mix" categories within a series. I am relatively new to Literotica, but it seems that categories matter a great deal to a certain brand of reader here, far more than on Certain Other Sites. I take the point made by some of you that if I am chasing scores then that kind of reader needs to be assiduously courted. And I have written some "mono-category" stories, based around e.g. futanari sex, the smoking fetish, psycho horror etc., and they seem to be clocking up red H's nicely - so there is clearly some wisdom in that view.

However, writing for what a certain brand of reader thinks he/she wants is only one way of writing. By contrast, Alison Goes to London is a novel, driven by the characters, their development arcs, and their interactions, within the context of the futuristic sexually dysfunctional world in which they live. At rock bottom, though it contains an awful lot of filthy sex, it is not about sex per se, let alone any particular brand of sex - but about love, friendship, race, societal control, identity, truth - and there are no "categories" for that! Therefore, here as on Other Sites, it seems to be gathering a small but devoted following. Not as many red H's as my other stories, but enough to make me happy. I am pleased that it has been short-listed for "Best Erotic Story by a New Author" on the Clitorides Awards. So, I think it's a story worth taking a few risks with...