Question for my fellow editors

[ovmylf]

What is literotica's policy on minors being in the story for Example if the author writes in their story about a 15 or 16 year old girls coming of age body? Not describing anything graphic in a sexualized way

 

[ronde]

The policy is in the "Content Guidelines" and the relevant part to your question is this. The italics are mine.

"
To that end, we DO NOT publish works of any type featuring the following content:

• Sexual activity involving characters under the age of 18 (including but not limited to explicit sexual discussion, voyeurism, exhibitionism, fantasizing, masturbation, and graphic sexualized descriptions, in addition to actual sexual intercourse). Literotica has always had a strict policy against any under-18 content, and any attempt to violate that policy is grounds for account termination."

I'm not sure how you could write about a "15 of 16 year old girls coming of age body" without it involving a fairly explicit sexual discussion.

Personally, I would avoid writing any thing involving anyone under the age of 18 just because I don't believe it's appropriate. I have written something on the order of, "when she was old enough to understand, her mother taught her about her body...", but that was the extent of it - no age and no details.

 

[ovmylf]

I understand the " content guidelines," Maybe I didn't word my question correctly. Thanks for the advice? I got it figured out

 

[Demiurging]

I tend to go with the "will a reasonable person think they're trying to slip something in under my nose" test. For a coming-of-age thing, I'd say you're pretty much constrained to the level of shoujo manga, and by that point why are you putting it on a porn site?

 

[Kumquatqueen]

What could you mean by 'coming of age body' that isn't sexual?
"My periods finally started"? As soon as you mention changes in breasts or hips and the like, that's sexual and not allowed here.

 

[StillStunned]

What could you mean by 'coming of age body' that isn't sexual?

It probably means that withering look that all women can summon to turn any man into a puddle of apology.

 

[mildlyaroused]

I agree with others' interpretations of the rule, but I'm always a little irked by the accompanying "But why would even want to write about that?" questions that seem to follow in these threads. There is nothing inherently inappropriate about writing about people under the age of 18 - not even on a erotica website, because it's perfectly understandable to want to flesh out a story and world beyond the erotic moments/themes themselves. I'm sure the OP isn't writing child abuse.

 

[MillieDynamite]

The rules, by design, are restrictive. You can't write about it in erotica you publish for sale, either. But mainstream literature can have pornographic sections as long as it isn't published as erotica. This makes a mockery of the question, "Is there any sexual content?", since they don't admit there is.

 

[jehoram]

I think that something like "I noticed that men started to look at me funny once I started to grow boobs" would pass. It's not sexual activity, but simply states a fact of life, like having periods. I think Athalia wrote something like that in a story I edited for her, and it passed without complaint.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

What could you mean by 'coming of age body' that isn't sexual?
"My periods finally started"? As soon as you mention changes in breasts or hips and the like, that's sexual and not allowed here.

I'm not so sure. Context is everything.

One could easily write a story, a very hot story, with the two main characters, M and F, having young-teen daughters. One of the latter is very irritable and her sister advises the couple not to mind, as, "she's just PMSing." The daughters then exit, stage right, and are seen no more in the story. That would, I think, be okay, despite pubescence and periods. Lingering descriptions of teenage bodies is of course out, but children and menstruation are facts of life, provided of course that they don't participate in or see sex or be seen as sexual.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think that something like "I noticed that men started to look at me funny once I started to grow boobs" would pass. It's not sexual activity, but simply states a fact of life, like having periods. I think Athalia wrote something like that in a story I edited for her, and it passed without complaint.

Yeah, that's probably going to get a pass, just by itself. Bolt a few more sentences on, probably not.