Limits on descriptions involving children?

[Halin24]

I'm working on a story (dozens really, but this concerns only one) that starts out in a childrens camp where a boy meets a foreign girl, a refugee from the Balkan wars in the early 90's. They are not involved in any kind of sex at all, I want to make that clear, but they become friends. They sleep beside each other the first night after they meet, among others, and the reason for this is that she feels safe with him, being in a foreign place with kids she doesn`t know and can`t talk very well with.
Years later they do have sex when she is about to leave him, moving back to Bosnia to go to university.

What I want to know is basically if this plot is okay and where the limit goes for my description of their early years as friends?

I know, no minors involved in sex or witnessing sex at all, and I agree 100% with this. A kiss, a close hug, sitting on a boy's lap holding him tight when scared and crying, laying in separate sleeping bags but close together and holding each other when waking up, always being together and holding hands: is that okay?
I have seen all of it in real life, kids simply acting on how they feel and with no intention of doing anything 'stupid' (they are too young anyway). I am, however, aware that adults often interpret things from their own point of view, not the child's, and that makes things complicated.

To answer my own question: yes, I absolutely think all those things are okay, but what is the general view, and that of Lit? I don't want to screw up in any way, but the way the two of them meet and what happens is the psychological basis of the plot, and without it there is nothing left.

Comments?

 

[i_would]

Seems to me that you'll be fine but in the end it's Lauren that has the final word.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think your premise is fine and your stressing everything is platonic, but the site is weird about this at times.

The editing process here is a very quick skim so if she spots young kids it could get a knee jerk response and rejection.

For this I suggest adding a brief explanation in the notes field saying the story contains child hood memories, but all non sexual.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Seems to me that you'll be fine but in the end it's Lauren that has the final word.

It's Laurel not Lauren. FYI.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

What's allowed here has nothing to do with what happens in reality. That said, as long as you don't describe sex or sexual arousal (the kissing might be chancy) it should be ok.

 

[Weird Harold]

What I want to know is basically if this plot is okay and where the limit goes for my description of their early years as friends?

I know, no minors involved in sex or witnessing sex at all, and I agree 100% with this. A kiss, a close hug, sitting on a boy's lap holding him tight when scared and crying, laying in separate sleeping bags but close together and holding each other when waking up, always being together and holding hands: is that okay?

I don't see any problem with the basic concept, but the devil is in the details.

The rule is (paraphrased) "no graphic description of sex involving children, including as voyeurs." It is that "graphic" qualifier that is the stumbling block. If you shade your descriptions towards what could be considered "foreplay" or "erotic" in adults, then you'll be straying into dubious ground. If you go into graphic details of the kids' feelings, that would be dubious ground.

Your best bet would be to write the story the best way you can and submit it with a note in the comments field that there is emotional attachment but no sex or erotic descriptions in the characters' early lives. Laurel will let a lot of borderline content slide in a well-written story where the borderline content is integral to the story. It is a judgement call on her part and is often negotiable.

 

[Ezrollin]

Well you little prev .....lol I had originally thought of writing an Lolita story before reading the restrictions.Don't get me wrong,I don't lust after under age girls but we all know that it exist in the real world. In some of my future stories,assuming there will be some, if I don't give an age I infer it in some other manner.

 

[sr71plt]

Well you little prev .....lol I had originally thought of writing an Lolita story before reading the restrictions.Don't get me wrong,I don't lust after under age girls but we all know that it exist in the real world. In some of my future stories,assuming there will be some, if I don't give an age I infer it in some other manner.

But here at Literotica you better be inferring it's over 18.

 

[lovecraft68]

But here at Literotica you better be inferring it's over 18.

A lot of stories here infer 18

I've still yet to meet an 18-19 year old girl with 'budding breasts' though. They must be slow developers.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It's a pain finding words to describe slender women with small breasts (pretty much my type, I've found, over the years) without wondering what the thought police will think.

My solution is to write about adult relationships, making it quite clear the protagonists are mature adults. You know, grown up people with a job and not still at school, or at least second or third year at university if they are young (and I'm recounting my under graduate days, sigh...)

I've never understood the fetish for huge breasts though. I look at girls in the street with huge breasts and just think, you poor thing, how the hell do you manage that weight.

A lot of stories here infer 18

I've still yet to meet an 18-19 year old girl with 'budding breasts' though. They must be slow developers.

 

[lovecraft68]

It's a pain finding words to describe slender women with small breasts (pretty much my type, I've found, over the years) without wondering what the thought police will think.

My solution is to write about adult relationships, making it quite clear the protagonists are mature adults. You know, grown up people with a job and not still at school, or at least second or third year at university if they are young (and I'm recounting my under graduate days, sigh...)

I've never understood the fetish for huge breasts though. I look at girls in the street with huge breasts and just think, you poor thing, how the hell do you manage that weight.

I'm a fan of smaller perkier tits myself(that's why I married a woman with a pretty impressive chest of course) but small perky tits aren't the same as "budding breasts" that does not infer small, it infers not fully developed.

 

[Weird Harold]

A lot of stories here infer 18

I've still yet to meet an 18-19 year old girl with 'budding breasts' though. They must be slow developers.

Aaaaargh!!!

The stories do not infer a damned thing, the story might imply an age, but it the readers that infer something from the descriptions.

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/imply-infer/

 

[lovecraft68]

Aaaaargh!!!

The stories do not infer a damned thing, the story might imply an age, but it the readers that infer something from the descriptions.

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/imply-infer/

Okay, I'll reword my post

A lot of authors lie about their character being 18 to get a quick pass from an editor that does not have time to read through an entire story. Then they give that character attributes and mannerisms of a much younger age.

Granted interpretation is out of an authors hands. If an author is writing legit 18-20 year olds, but the reader loves underage and in their mind will always see them as under 18 no one can control that.

But when the author has their 19 year old wearing a care bears night shirt or talking like a child or again, is 'budding' then the author is bullshitting the site and appealing to readers who are looking for stuff lit says they prefer not to have here.

Funny its mostly the girls. I don't see it as much with male characters because let's face it all the male has to have is a big cock so they can't be 'under developed' and...most people would rather the girl be under age, especially in dad/daughter stories or older man younger girl stories in mature.

 

[MellowGem]

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[Bramblethorn]

love complaining about his audience .... same old song, same old dance.



Limits on children. DON'T DO IT.


There you go.

Not very helpful unless you clarify what "it" means. Which was pretty much the point of this thread.

 

[EverLux]

I've never understood the fetish for huge breasts though. I look at girls in the street with huge breasts and just think, you poor thing, how the hell do you manage that weight.

Lots of Ibuprofen, a drawer full of expensive bras, and a good physical therapist.

As for small-breasted characters, the only one I've written about, so far, is an 18-year-old who's proud of her perky little tits. But to make her more "womanly", I gave her wide hips. It seems a small thing, but I just really didn't want her to have the body type of a 12-year-old. Also, I've always been kind of jealous of pear shaped women.