Most suprisingly reader (occupation) you've had?

[HeyAll]

Ever have a reader contact you that surprised you?

A doctor? A lawyer? A politician?

I know of a few female school teachers that have read my incest stories, who are older in age. That's the most interesting as far as I know.

You?

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I'm not sure if this counts as "contact", but a retired naval officer left an anonymous comment on my sci-fi story about an enlisted technician and an officer trapped together in a life pod. He mentioned his career in the military to praise how accurately I had portrayed the enlisted/officer relationship.

I don't recall any other reader who has commented or emailed me about a story ever mentioning their occupation.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I actually had someone who said they had worked as a correctional officer compliment me on the prison chapters of My Fall and Rise.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

I've had a professor give me their actual edu email to further discuss a story.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Had a dentist and a couple of doctors make private comments on my stories. Left a real email address too. We corresponded for a while. I have also had a few retired Marines contact me asking me what units I served in. Surprised them when I told them I was in the Air Force, not the Marines.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I honestly can't think of an occupation that would surprise me. I assume people from all occupations read erotica.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

I've had a professor give me their actual edu email to further discuss a story.

Same here. I’ve had a handful of readers contact me with real names and professional email addresses and that just amazes me.... In one, very vain, sense, I’m flattered that readers feel that I’m to be trusted with their real contact info etc, but, still seriously, please please please make dummy email addresses, dear readers.

My stories are about law, finance and college, so a lot of people contact me, especially from a couple of specific hedge funds, law firms and schools. But the most interesting: my FMC grew up in Hungary and many of my characters worked on a (fictitious) acquisition for Netflix from a Hungarian production company. One of my readers who now contacts/emails me frequently is actually a producer in Budapest. It’s a very small world after all.

 

[YDB95]

I don't believe any of my readers have ever divulged their occupations. It never really occurred to me to wonder anyway; I figure there's one of everything in our audiences.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ever have a reader contact you that surprised you?

A doctor? A lawyer? A politician?

I know of a few female school teachers that have read my incest stories, who are older in age. That's the most interesting as far as I know.

You?

Hmmm, I’ve been contacted by some very interesting people. Military, ex-military, bikers, a ceo or two, and it’s lead to some fascinating conversations via email.

 

[vanmyers86]

Probably my most unexpected one was an English military historian specializing in WW1. I heard from him after No Men to Love (a story set in London just after WW1). He offered assistance and some details about England circa 1920. Since then, we have become good friends.

 

[Polyacrylate]

The only occupation that would truly surprise me contacting a writer here would be someone claiming to be an active priest or other type of clergy.

Not because I wouldn't expect the clergy to read Literotica (I'm certain plenty of them do), but because I couldn't see anyone who is really a man or woman of the cloth admitting to viewing this online, even "anonymously."

 

[ChloeTzang]

It's not uncommon for me to feel uncomfortable, seeing the usernames of people who 'Favor' my stories, or seeing which other stories they've Favored.

I find that fascinating, and I’ve read a few stories l, and come across some good writers I’d never have encountered otherwise.

 

[Javahead]

I find that fascinating, and I’ve read a few stories l, and come across some good writers I’d never have encountered otherwise.

There are times, given their other favorites, I seriously wonder why they find that particular story of mine appealing.

Or even why they follow me. I have one follower/voter who hates non BTB stories in Loving Wives with a flaming passion due to his real life experience (per his comments and user profile, his then-wife did her best to ruin his life while he was on a combat tour). When I posted my own deliberate over-the-top and happy-ending LW story, he made a point of 1-bombing every chapter within the first 10 minutes of posting, and letting me know that he was doing so.

But he also marked a couple of those chapters as favorites, as well as a some of my other, decidedly non LW, stories. ???

 

[whowrotethisshit]

Same here. I’ve had a handful of readers contact me with real names and professional email addresses and that just amazes me.... In one, very vain, sense, I’m flattered that readers feel that I’m to be trusted with their real contact info etc, but, still seriously, please please please make dummy email addresses, dear readers.

You'd be so surprised what sort of personal information people would send me when I wrote erotica for pay. Men would send me photographs of their family that would make me SO DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE. One dude described in paragraphs and paragraphs of text his best friend's daughter (my dude had a obsessive crush from hell), and the guy who takes the cake is the one who sent me his log in and password information for dropbox so I could properly describe his naked wife, their naked and tied up (consensual) sex slaves. Except! The drop box was under his real name and he had tax papers in there. I never opened them. I told him I wasn't comfortable seeing the photos or, just, any of that.

 

[KeithD]

There was a reader who e-mailed me, saying that he was a former Army officer at JUSMAG in Bangkok in the 80s, and that one of my stories sounded awfully familiar to him. He sounded awfully familiar to me, too, and I don't know whether he was hinting that he had been a character in that story or didn't quite understand that he probably was.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

There are times, given their other favorites, I seriously wonder why they find that particular story of mine appealing.

Or even why they follow me. I have one follower/voter who hates non BTB stories in Loving Wives with a flaming passion due to his real life experience (per his comments and user profile, his then-wife did her best to ruin his life while he was on a combat tour). When I posted my own deliberate over-the-top and happy-ending LW story, he made a point of 1-bombing every chapter within the first 10 minutes of posting, and letting me know that he was doing so.

But he also marked a couple of those chapters as favorites, as well as a some of my other, decidedly non LW, stories. ???

It's probably not a list of appealing stories, it's a list of appalling stories to them. IE - "OK, let's go through and see what new crap we have to one-bomb"

 

[HeyAll]

You'd be so surprised what sort of personal information people would send me when I wrote erotica for pay. Men would send me photographs of their family that would make me SO DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE. One dude described in paragraphs and paragraphs of text his best friend's daughter (my dude had a obsessive crush from hell), and the guy who takes the cake is the one who sent me his log in and password information for dropbox so I could properly describe his naked wife, their naked and tied up (consensual) sex slaves. Except! The drop box was under his real name and he had tax papers in there. I never opened them. I told him I wasn't comfortable seeing the photos or, just, any of that.

A lot of guys secretly have a thing for sharing intimate pictures of their wives, without their wives knowing.

I've seen that online a lot, and a reading on kik shares pictures of his inlaws and says all kinds of stuff.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It's not uncommon for me to feel uncomfortable, seeing the usernames of people who 'Favor' my stories, or seeing which other stories they've Favored.

Not so much usernames, but I've had that with bios once or twice. "Oh, I wonder who this nice person is who commented on my - whoah, I really hope this bio is fantasy."

The only occupation that would truly surprise me contacting a writer here would be someone claiming to be an active priest or other type of clergy.

Not because I wouldn't expect the clergy to read Literotica (I'm certain plenty of them do), but because I couldn't see anyone who is really a man or woman of the cloth admitting to viewing this online, even "anonymously."

I don't remember the name, but there's a priest who sometimes posts on the forums, IIRC mostly in BDSM. He's mentioned that he doesn't have any moral objection to reading erotica.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

You'd be so surprised what sort of personal information people would send me when I wrote erotica for pay. Men would send me photographs of their family that would make me SO DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE. One dude described in paragraphs and paragraphs of text his best friend's daughter (my dude had a obsessive crush from hell), and the guy who takes the cake is the one who sent me his log in and password information for dropbox so I could properly describe his naked wife, their naked and tied up (consensual) sex slaves. Except! The drop box was under his real name and he had tax papers in there. I never opened them. I told him I wasn't comfortable seeing the photos or, just, any of that.

That’s insane... I’m speechless.

When you wrote pay erotica, were you writing similar categories/genres as on Lit?

 

[jehoram]

Probably my most unexpected one was an English military historian specializing in WW1. I heard from him after No Men to Love (a story set in London just after WW1). He offered assistance and some details about England circa 1920. Since then, we have become good friends.

A WWII historian once wrote me about a story I'd set in that era, correcting me on a few points of military culture. It didn't really affect the plot line, though. Easy revision, and I thanked him.

 

[Polyacrylate]

I don't remember the name, but there's a priest who sometimes posts on the forums, IIRC mostly in BDSM. He's mentioned that he doesn't have any moral objection to reading erotica.

Thanks for sharing that. I am officially surprised!

 

[Touch_type]

Ever have a reader contact you that surprised you?

A doctor? A lawyer? A politician?

I know of a few female school teachers that have read my incest stories, who are older in age. That's the most interesting as far as I know.

You?

Someone who made their living having sex for money.

 

[KeithD]

The most surprising reader contact through Literotica that I've received was from another Literotica author who had figured out (correctly) who I really was--from reading my Literotica stories.

 

[KeithD]

FYI. Rocketlauncher_ is a troll from the General Board, who stole the account name of another poster with a contrary political leaning by opening an account that just adds an underline to the account name.

 

[RocketLauncher]

FYI. Rocketlauncher_ is a troll from the General Board, who stole the account name of another poster with a contrary political leaning by opening an account that just adds an underline to the account name.

Thank you, KeithD. I appreciate the shout out.