Polygamy / polygyny story - which category?

[talemestories]

I have a polygamy / polygyny story that I am trying to find a category for.

It's a straight hetro sex story with one man and three women with a bit of a religious tone (but not much). Basically, a man goes to be the husband of his three school friends on an off grid homestead. All are in their 20s. No anal.

I was thinking loving wives but ...

I wasn't sure if this might be taboo but without the incest, it's a tough placement.

Erotic couplings doesn't seem quite right either.

The search for both terms seemed to yield a wide range of placements but with some interesting combos.

Thoughts?

 

[THBGato]

Is it going to be romantic?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Is a sex story or a love story? If it's a love story, it could be in Romance. If it's a religion where the man (or the senior wife) is absolutely dominant and punishes sinners with paddles and bondage, it's BDSM.

I guess my point is, what is the story about besides being poly (if anything)?

--Annie

 

[TheLobster]

No anal.

Well, that mistake can always be rectified

More seriously, though, and to continue the line of questioning which has already been started by others: how many people take part in the sex? If more than two, then Group is a possible option. As usual, consider what is the main erotic theme of the story.

 

[Rob_Royale]

If the four of them are married then I think EC is your best bet.

 

[Lifestyle66]

My stories are usually about swingers or a married couple sharing. So, they are about "extra-marital fun, sharing, and more", and they belong in the LW category by that definition.

There is a large portion of the LW audience who believe that "Loving Wives" should be monogamous, and they HATE my stories.

I could hide my stories in other categories, such as calling them an "Erotic Coupling" (outside of the marital vows), a "Romance" (by some warped logic suggesting a different kind of romance), or "Group Sex" (if it's at a swinger party, even though they're just pairing off into separate bedrooms.)

Would it be appropriate to put a swinger story into "Lesbian", if I write about the swinger wife enjoying sex with another woman while the husband watches? I wonder how the Lesbian audience would react.

Sometimes a story just needs to go where the dominant theme in the story arc directs it, regardless of what a subset of the audience there tries to insist. In a polygamy story, are they "loving wives", sharing one husband between themselves? Maybe it depends on the POV or dynamic between the wives.

I take the hater comments and 1-bombs and just move along to write my next story.

 

[Bamagan]

I have a polygamy / polygyny story that I am trying to find a category for.

It's a straight hetro sex story with one man and three women with a bit of a religious tone (but not much). Basically, a man goes to be the husband of his three school friends on an off grid homestead. All are in their 20s. No anal.

I was thinking loving wives but ...

I wasn't sure if this might be taboo but without the incest, it's a tough placement.

Erotic couplings doesn't seem quite right either.

The search for both terms seemed to yield a wide range of placements but with some interesting combos.

Thoughts?

From the description, Group Sex sounds like the closest fit to me. T/I, LW, and EC all have cases that could made: it's definitely a family-related situation that is not widely accepted; it's definitely about spousal sharing even if it's the male being shared; since it seems like the wives have no sexual relationships with each other, any sex scenes will presumably be M+F and might well read like EC if not for the setting or context.

 

[talemestories]

It's male on female with no group.

All three females share one male, one at a time.

The common idea is to be impregnated by him to create a poly household.

It is somewhat romantic but more a coming together of a polygamous household centred around the homestead, making YouTube videos, and enjoying each other.

No female / female sex.

Because of the poly theme, I wasn't sure if it would suit romance or not.

Because the dominant theme is poly, would that make it taboo perhaps? The sex is vanilla for the most part.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Because of the poly theme, I wasn't sure if it would suit romance or not.

Because the dominant theme is poly, would that make it taboo perhaps? The sex is vanilla for the most part.

There can be romance in poly, really depends on how you write it.

Taboo in my opinion would be a good fit for this, but most of the people there expect incest. So you'd have a lot of the same problems as with putting it in LW.

How long is it? Could it possibly go in Novels and Novellas?

 

[Lifestyle66]

It's male on female with no group.

All three females share one male, one at a time.

The common idea is to be impregnated by him to create a poly household.

It is somewhat romantic but more a coming together of a polygamous household centred around the homestead, making YouTube videos, and enjoying each other.

No female / female sex.

Because of the poly theme, I wasn't sure if it would suit romance or not.

Because the dominant theme is poly, would that make it taboo perhaps? The sex is vanilla for the most part.

As I said above, I could see that as "Loving Wives" (literally, more than one!)

Depending on how you frame it, it might even elicit a chuckle from some of those monogamous-only, sharing haters. The male thinks: "I'm monogamous, just one at a time!" (They'll still hate it, but maybe 2-bomb versus a 1.)

 

[talemestories]

I think it could be seen as romantic.

It's kind of a mix of ideas that don't seem to fit anywhere. Most of my T/I is pretty family based and none of these folks are related.

It's not long enough to be a novel/la at present but may lead to other chapters.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's male on female with no group.
All three females share one male, one at a time.
The common idea is to be impregnated by him to create a poly household.
It is somewhat romantic but more a coming together of a polygamous household centred around the homestead, making YouTube videos, and enjoying each other.
No female / female sex.
Because of the poly theme, I wasn't sure if it would suit romance or not.
Because the dominant theme is poly, would that make it taboo perhaps? The sex is vanilla for the most part.

I like the idea and I think inserting some cattiness or competitiveness between the women would add a bit of spice to it to avoid it being too vanilla. I still think EC is the place for this. And it's not a bad category especially if you've already established yourself in other categories, which you have. Readers that enjoyed your work in those categories won't think twice about reading your EC story if it interests them.

 

[MrPixel]

I put my poly stories in Group Sex.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

If it's the story of four people in an arranged marriage learning to love each other, that would be Romance.

--Annie

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Well, the preggo bit kills it .....

 

[talemestories]

Yeah, it's not going to be everyone's favourite story, that's for sure.

I think I am going to go with Erotic Couplings with some tags and an intro piece at the start.

Thanks for all the ideas, folks.

If you do read it, let me know what you think. I quite liked it but it might be closer to my own dream than anything else.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

If you plan on making it longer-ish, maybe Novels and Novellas?

 

[talemestories]

I put a note into the editor with some of the ideas from here. EC is the current choice but, as many pointed out, there are many possible options. I'll let the editor place it as s/he sees fit if it needs to change. I am now curious as to the reception.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Is it going to be romantic?

How could it be romantic with no anal?

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I was reading this and I must admit - I was surprised to see the opinion come up so much that poly relationships are considered "taboo."

I'm curious from the OP - are the wives all happy with each other and such or is there drama between them? I know quite a few friends in poly relationships and there's much less drama than anyone outside of their relationships would predict. The only time there was drama was from someone not going along with what had been agreed upon. Maybe it's a biased sample that I'm drawing from because they are people I personally know well enough to discuss their relationships, but I see just as much open communication in poly relationships as I've seen in the healthy D/s relationships I've been privy to. So I'm just curious where your story falls in that?

 

[Britva415]

Because the dominant theme is poly, would that make it taboo perhaps?

Is it taboo to them? If so, then the Taboo category could be a good fit.

Honestly, I think EC is fine. Tag the story with a variety of "poly" tags and be informative with your Description field.

It does not clearly fit anywhere else, except for maybe Group. Even though there won't be group sex in the story, it's still kind of a group scenario. I honestly don't know whether readers in that category would get mad over the absence of orgies.

The story doesn't tick any of the Loving Wives boxes: Not the ones in the official category description nor the ones which many readers and authors have unofficially projected onto the category either.

There are people around here who call EC a rando shit-can category, but it really is the right place for stories which have not been contrived to fit into any of the others.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Side note: I was today years old when I found out there are different sub types of Polygamy.
I had to look it up...



Yes, I understand Monogamy isn't polygamy, but I needed to make the grid work, so deal with it, OK?