Mentioning Contraception

[Uther_Pendragon]

The earliest notice I had that my latest story had been
posted was a piece of anonymous feedback. It said
essentially that any story mentioning contraception would
get a '1' vote from that reader. Now that raises several
issues.<P>
First, I don't think that this is fair voting. I've criticised
"poetry" which doesn't scan. I wouldn't go through the
poetry pages of Literotica, however, voting ones for every
offering which doesn't scan.
Even worse would be somebody who doesn't like homosexuality
going through the gay subdirectory voting '1' each time.<P>
A second issue is realism. Adults of our day *think* about
the consequences sometime around the sex act. Maybe not
at the moment of penetration, but if you depict the other
times of the relationship, you will see periods when the
couple either uses contraception, or is very conscious that
they haven't done so.<P>
Or is my correspondent in favor of having more children?
If so, his language is inaccurate. In the stories in
which my characters are seriously trying to make a baby, they are -- if anything -- more conscious of teh absence of contraception than they ever are of its presence.

 

[Whispersecret]

Uther, I hear ya. While I don't think that's a valid method for voting, it really is up to each individual. I mentioned condoms in a short story I wrote, so whoever read yours and didn't like the mention of contraception won't probably like mine either. Too bad. I wanted a degree of realism in that story and the characters having sex were strangers and too level-headed and intelligent to have unprotected sex. The whole premise (meeting during a game of golf and fucking in the gardener's shed) was a little unrealistic, and I think sometimes you have to balance that type of stretch with a heavier hand on the reality end of the spectrum.

Don't sweat it. Most of the time you don't know why someone votes a one. At least this way you can justify it to yourself that the person was irrational.

 

[Mickie]

For some people the mention of contraception is a turn off. It's an individual thing. All voting is a personal thing. The only criteria there is for voting is 'did you enjoy the story?'. That makes it possible for things like this to be fair voting. The contraception turned the commentor off, so he didn't enjoy the story. That's all there is to it. Other people don't feel that way, but we all have the right to vote on what we, personally, like and don't like. That's also why its so confusing when someone would downvote a story and the next one gives it the highest vote. One person's trash is another one's treasure.

Mickie