Minimum age for story...

[SexySmartMinx]

I hope I'm posting in the right place....

I have a story I have written/started that takes place in the 1800's (pre-civil war time). The story involves a girl who is ALMOST 16.... I know Lit has rules about posting about minors, but during this time, the age of consent was younger than 16. Would I be allowed to share a story of a 15.75 year old girl in a sexual situation? I could easily change it to make her 16 at the time, but then that would mean changing her "Sweet 16" party later to a "Sweet 17". I had a friend in the UK who insisted he would not read it unless I made her 16.... Thoughts?

 

[Imstillfun]

I hope I'm posting in the right place....

I have a story I have written/started that takes place in the 1800's (pre-civil war time). The story involves a girl who is ALMOST 16.... I know Lit has rules about posting about minors, but during this time, the age of consent was younger than 16. Would I be allowed to share a story of a 15.75 year old girl in a sexual situation? I could easily change it to make her 16 at the time, but then that would mean changing her "Sweet 16" party later to a "Sweet 17". I had a friend in the UK who insisted he would not read it unless I made her 16.... Thoughts?

18 is the limit. No matter what

 

[ericalauren]

I hope I'm posting in the right place....

I have a story I have written/started that takes place in the 1800's (pre-civil war time). The story involves a girl who is ALMOST 16.... I know Lit has rules about posting about minors, but during this time, the age of consent was younger than 16. Would I be allowed to share a story of a 15.75 year old girl in a sexual situation? I could easily change it to make her 16 at the time, but then that would mean changing her "Sweet 16" party later to a "Sweet 17". I had a friend in the UK who insisted he would not read it unless I made her 16.... Thoughts?

No. As you probably already know, 18 years old is the minimum age here on Literotica.

 

[SexySmartMinx]

Ah - thanks for clarifying!! That helps. I don't know why I was thinking 16.... Maybe because of what my UK friend had said. I'll adjust if I decide to post here.

 

[oggbashan]

Ah - thanks for clarifying!! That helps. I don't know why I was thinking 16.... Maybe because of what my UK friend had said. I'll adjust if I decide to post here.

The Literotica rule has nothing to do with the age of consent (16 in the UK).

Anything involving anyone under 18 that is remotely sexual e.g. even thinking about it, would lead to instant rejection.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Ah - thanks for clarifying!! That helps. I don't know why I was thinking 16.... Maybe because of what my UK friend had said. I'll adjust if I decide to post here.

Characters in your story can be under the age of 18 as long as they don't see, hear, smell, taste, or feel anything sexually related.

So, for example, if you want this female character to appear before she turns 18, it can be done, but only if there is no involvement in ANY sexual activity until she turns 18. I have several stories posted here where this is the case and I have never experienced a rejection.

 

[HBuff]

The answers are thorough, so I'll just add a bit from my own experience as a relatively new Lit writer.

Laurel uses a bot that red-flags certain words. I think "teenager" is one of them. When words are red-flagged, the passages are reviewed by human eyes, but I still go and check already-published stories to see what's allowed and what isn't in the context of sexual activity.

For example, my last story, set in 1947, includes two young couples that are double-dating. They are all 19 or 20 years old. The boys are wearing varsity jackets and one of the girls has a varsity sweater with a letter in front. They have a very teenage vibe, but I never used the t-word; "boys" and "girls" are OK in that context, and I clearly indicated the characters' ages through their dialogs. In fact, I only indicated the girls' ages, but it got passed since it was clear that the boys were the same age or slightly older.

In these dialogs, neither of the varsity couples talk about some backseat bingo (kissing and making out in a car) they might have had when they were 17, let alone sex. It is essential not to refer to any pre-18 past of a sexual nature when you use minimum-age characters.

Be very wary of things, even details, that seem safe, but could get your story rejected on underage basis. In the very beginning of the afore-mentioned story, I describe the bustling life in Philly and there were "groups of youths with some couples walking hand in hand". I changed it for "young couples walking hand in hand" to be on the safe side.

It's worth the time and effort. Your story will be read by thousands and will give much pleasure to hundreds of souls who share your fantasies.

 

[MillieDynamite]

In the 1800s, children could marry as young as 12. That still doesn't make it where you can write about their honeymoon or indicate they have sex at this site.

 

[Handley_Page]

In ancient Babylon, girls could wed at 12.
It ain't gonna change Lit's Rules, tho'.
Less than 18 and it don't fly !

 

[TadOverdon]

I have had stories bounced back because I used the word "boy," but (so far) never because of "girl." "Boy" is used in a lot of colloquial ways, of course, other than to refer to very young males, but I just decided the easiest thing is to avoid it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have a story I have written/started that takes place in the 1800's (pre-civil war time). The story involves a girl who is ALMOST 16.... I know Lit has rules about posting about minors, but during this time, the age of consent was younger than 16. Would I be allowed to share a story of a 15.75 year old girl in a sexual situation? I could easily change it to make her 16 at the time, but then that would mean changing her "Sweet 16" party later to a "Sweet 17". I had a friend in the UK who insisted he would not read it unless I made her 16.... Thoughts?

Aside from it being against the site rules, that sounds glaringly anachronistic to me. I don't have a definite reference but I'm not aware of "Sweet 16" parties by that name happening before around the 1950s-1960s.

Trying it out in Ngrams, American corpus, "sweet sixteen party" doesn't show up in books until around the 1930s, and doesn't really pick up until the 50s-60s:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sweet+sixteen+party&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1;,sweet sixteen party;,c0

Searching on just "sweet sixteen" gets a lot of hits from 1855-1865, girls were often described that way, but in the first couple of pages of hits I didn't see anything resembling a "Sweet 16" party.

I'm open to contradiction by historians but if I saw it in a story pre-1860s it'd feel like a major howler to me. There were things like "coming-out parties" but not specifically attached to age 16, AFAIK.

In the 1800s, children could marry as young as 12. That still doesn't make it where you can write about their honeymoon or indicate they have sex at this site.

Still happening in some US states as of a few years ago :-/ http://apps.frontline.org/child-marriage-by-the-numbers/#home

And, yes, still not Lit-legal.

 

[HBuff]

I have had stories bounced back because I used the word "boy," but (so far) never because of "girl." "Boy" is used in a lot of colloquial ways, of course, other than to refer to very young males, but I just decided the easiest thing is to avoid it.

My last story got passed no problem, and I used both "boy" and "girl". I had clearly established that the boy was a big 19-year-old kid and the girl was a witch who looks like she's 22 years old and acts like she's unfathomably older.

I think the bot picks up these key words and a moderator checks the context. I made sure to see how these two words are used in other published works.

 

[sirhugs]

In ancient Babylon, girls could wed at 12.
It ain't gonna change Lit's Rules, tho'.
Less than 18 and it don't fly !

Im medieval times, royal dynastic weddings often resulted in children being married off, but usually with promise they would not have sex until ...hmmm...14 or so?
the peasants just rutted when the urge sruck.
life might have been nasty brutish and short, but that was just all the more reason to procreate in multiples.

Lit has rules for the 21st century.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

Im medieval times, royal dynastic weddings often resulted in children being married off, but usually with promise they would not have sex until ...hmmm...14 or so?
the peasants just rutted when the urge sruck.
life might have been nasty brutish and short, but that was just all the more reason to procreate in multiples.

Lit has rules for the 21st century.

In fact, in the Middle Ages, most people waited until their twenties to get married. It just that we have a skewed idea of what happened since the lives of the large majority of people were not as well documented as that of the elite few.

Also, while average life expectancy was much lower, this was largely due to high rates of infant and child mortality, not because of adults dying much earlier.

 

[MillieDynamite]

In fact, in the Middle Ages, most people waited until their twenties to get married. It just that we have a skewed idea of what happened since the lives of the large majority of people were not as well documented as that of the elite few.

Also, while average life expectancy was much lower, this was largely due to high rates of infant and child mortality, not because of adults dying much earlier.

War also figured in to mortality ranges or averages as well as men to women ratios. A fact of life in the 1870s, a single woman who wasn't a prostitute in the west was rare and average of women to men was vastly off balance but in the east the percentages were far more women than men. Partially because so many men went west and partially because so many men died in the Civil War. In the hole of the United States the percentage of women was higher than men. But by the 1880 census the men had made much of their losses. Throughout history the number of women in a society have had a slight percentage edge over men of a few percentage points, and since war has been the business of men, until recently, that would have been the expected outcome.

 

[Amy_66]

At Amy's, all of our erotic stories are carefully crafted from the finest ingredients and then aged for a minimum of two years in a carefully charred American oak-- Quercus alba-- barrel. You can recognize these stories by their sweeter taste and resulting notes of vanilla, caramel and spices.

 

[AlexBailey]

At Amy's, all of our erotic stories are carefully crafted from the finest ingredients and then aged for a minimum of two years in a carefully charred American oak-- Quercus alba-- barrel. You can recognize these stories by their sweeter taste and resulting notes of vanilla, caramel and spices.

I find aging in charred Quercus alba tends to produce a more astringent and nutty quality

 

[Amy_66]

I find aging in charred Quercus alba tends to produce a more astringent and nutty quality

Nutty... yeah... I've heard that... (But not astringent.)

 

[AlexBailey]

Nutty... yeah... I've heard that... (But not astringent.)

Well, if the entire lot is aged in new American oak barrels it gets that way, especially if you’re talking white wine.

I worked in a cellar for several years where we blended lots from different barrels to avoid the astringency of new American oak. Sauvignon Blanc got it the worst and it was much less of an issue with the French oak, but more importantly to the topic of this thread - the problem went away once the barrels themselves were properly aged.

 

[oggbashan]

Well, if the entire lot is aged in new American oak barrels it gets that way, especially if you’re talking white wine.

I worked in a Napa Valley cellar for several years where we blended lots from different barrels to avoid the astringency of new American oak. Sauvignon Blanc got it the worst and it was much less of an issue with the French oak, but more importantly to the topic of this thread - the problem went away once the barrels themselves were properly aged.

Back in the 1950s, with my father who bought sherry for the whole Royal Navy, I visited the Gonzalez Byass sherry cellars in Jerez. They had massive stocks of very old sherries, ports, and wines.

One large cask was reserved for Napoleon Bonaparte but Waterloo happened before he could take delivery. My father had one glass out of that massive barrel. In one cellar all the barrels were pre-WW2, some of them pre-WW1, and some, like Napoleon's, 19th Century.

 

[Amy_66]

Back in the 1950s, with my father who bought sherry for the whole Royal Navy, I visited the Gonzalez Byass sherry cellars in Jerez. They had massive stocks of very old sherries, ports, and wines.

One large cask was reserved for Napoleon Bonaparte but Waterloo happened before he could take delivery. My father had one glass out of that massive barrel. In one cellar all the barrels were pre-WW2, some of them pre-WW1, and some, like Napoleon's, 19th Century.

So... he wasn't poisoned... but rather died stranded on Saint Helena... of intense heartache. Thinking about generations of Arthur Wellesley's countrymen enjoying "his" sherry.

 

[SteelPoint]

Normally I don't think SF and erotica should go together. However...

In a galaxy far, far away, there's this planet... Htrae

And on this planet there's a man called Nhoj...

... who has a lauxes relationship with his daughter, Enaj...

... who is 71 years old.

Nhoj himself, you won't be surprised to hear... is 84.

A bit of an age gap but clearly completely above board and meeting Lit's arbitrary, in-house rules. So that's ok, then...

 

[oggbashan]

Normally I don't think SF and erotica should go together. However...

In a galaxy far, far away, there's this planet... Htrae

And on this planet there's a man called Nhoj...

... who has a lauxes relationship with his daughter, Enaj...

... who is 71 years old.

Nhoj himself, you won't be surprised to hear... is 84.

A bit of an age gap but clearly completely above board and meeting Lit's arbitrary, in-house rules. So that's ok, then...

No. That won't fly. His daughter was born when he was 13!

 

[SteelPoint]

Sorry, silly, silly moi. Meant 94.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

Normally I don't think SF and erotica should go together. However...

In a galaxy far, far away, there's this planet... Htrae

And on this planet there's a man called Nhoj...

... who has a lauxes relationship with his daughter, Enaj...

... who is 71 years old.

Nhoj himself, you won't be surprised to hear... is 84.

A bit of an age gap but clearly completely above board and meeting Lit's arbitrary, in-house rules. So that's ok, then...

...revelc woH