Request for Blackmail Ideas

MartinConteggio

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Hi folks, new member of the community and author of a couple of works that are now being proofed before I submit them.

I’m not sure where this question belongs, and I do not wish to offend anyone with delicate sensibilities… so I thought I’d try here, perfectly expecting you guys to all tell me to go somewhere else, but at least not being terribly offended, I hope.

I’m developing a character that is the victim of Blackmail, and forced into slavery. Her slavery is at the hands of very brutal and completely disrespectful group of people who will attempt to compel her to do very horrible things and bring her into obedience with the threat of blackmail.

Unfortunately she’s a very strong willed and determined young lady, very well educated and extremely intelligent. All of these are qualities desirable to many men, but unfortunately make mostly invulnerable to the sort of blackmail ideas typically employed in erotic fiction. (i.e. Nude pictures of that one time at band camp; Telling her spouse about some sexual deviancy; etc…) I like realism and not fanciful plots.

Not even the threat of some criminal transgression being turned over the police will work (she knows the minute they turn her into the police she’ll have the opportunity to file charges on them for blackmail).

So as I notice many intelligent, willful and literate ladies are populating this forum I thought I might be able to solicit your ideas. What would someone have to blackmail you with to behave obediently in the service of people you absolutely hate, who make you do horrible things that you find completely immoral?

Everyone is encouraged to respond (not just the ladies). I realize the answer to this might be sensitive, and you would not want to broadcast it to your peers, so please feel free to PM me a response if it is too personal and I guarantee your confidentiality.
 
Perhaps, if she is employed and an aggressive career gal, blackmailing her with professional embarrassment may be effective.

For me personally, blackmailing with a threat to my children or family would be effective.
 
Involve my children in some way... if I didn't kill someone first, it might work.
 
Unfortunately she is too young for children. And no threat of her career would be enough for the demands placed on her.

See the story explores her emotions through her ordeals. As a plot device the "bad guys" are amused by making her perform without the threat of the whip and without bondage to keep her from escaping. She forces herself to obey just on the threat of the blackmail...

That is if I can ever figure out what the blackmail is ;) Hate having characters in my head that won’t fit nicely into their own story! She’s going to pay for that if she ever gets in there! :p
 
Is she, perchance, an exotic illegal alien who faces deportation if found out?

:)
 
well, depending on exactly how old she is....

she could be on an athletic scholarship to a school. Something hard to get into, but into athletics. New in North Carolina a place like Duke comes to mind.

Being that she's on a scholarship for athletics, she must submit to random drug testing to maintain elegibility. The blackmailers could bring her in for an interview of a part time job, or the could be teachers who are interviewing her for some role in school. They drug her drink, not with anything that will get her high, just something that would "pop her positive"

These people then use this to blackmail her. Providing her with clean pee, or just somehow get her excused from the testing all together. School would have to be the #1 thing in life for her.
 
Both good suggestions!

MissTaken, unfortunately, I don't think the risk of deportation would have her doing half the stuff in store for her.

Jenn, this sounds like an idea worth fleshing out. Some of the problems facing this proposition are how would the "bad guys" present the offer to her without her being able to fight back? If they forced a drug on her she could just go to a hospital and then the police.

She's a feisty Leo!

Who would have thought it would be so hard to control another human being with a threat alone?
 
It doesn't have to be offspring - how about a younger sister? They hold the younger sister custody (barely 18) - if she does as they act, her younger sister goes free, if not ... death or worse.



Or maybe .... they have something on her that she knows that she doesn't care if she's exposed for - like the threatening her career thing - but something inside of her compels her to submit and knowing she could go free at any moment, she instead chooses to submit and has to deal with that turmoil ... why is she doing this to herself? her career isn't THAT important right? and she has to struggle to admit to herself that she likes being forced to do these things.

... Just an idea
 
Nope - the person you describe would not respond well to a threat to the self.

It would have to be a threat to someone else - someone whose welfare she places above her own.

Hmmm a sister or brother or parent - perhaps a threat to ruin her father/mother and or their business.

It would have to be something of dire consequence.....
 
A threat to her parents, perhaps her father has a heart condition which would be easy to trigger.A phone call or photo might push him into a heart attack. Her mother might have a psych condition that would be likewise easy to trigger. Or a disabled sibling (who might require expensive care she cannot afford) or lives in an institution they might have access to or be on the board of....
A history of some trivial criminal activity by herself, that may threaten her current position. eg A drug possession offence can deregister anyone in the health industry.
A sibling with a drug addiction, who they can manipulate easily.
 
From my own perspective if she is both strong willed and highly intelligent I think you are going to find it a hard call to find a way to blackmail. If you threatened her with harming sick or ailing relatives she would likely be smart enough to figure out her disappearance, leaving, or being later exposed for her blackmailed exploits would harm them just as much or more, and ultimately pose a greater risk than calling the blackmailer's bluff. Most people of this personality type would weigh up their options and if they thought there was any significant risk, would either expose themselves in a controlled manner, decide to weather the storm, perhaps by engaging the help of someone else they trusted, lie their way out if necessary, or try and take care of the threat themselves at whatever cost. My way of thinking is the only way you would get her compliance is if she has secret desires and is either in denial about them or not, but needs an avenue of blame to excuse her responsibility for pursuing her most hidden desires.

Catalina:rose:
 
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Well since losing control would be her one weakness, you need to manipulate that happening. Curiosity is most everyones achilles heel. Perhaps a book with the main character being a woman who surrenders herself to her desires. Your character finds this and begins reading. She gets interested and swipes the book. Now after a certain period of time have one of her female co-workers she likes asks if she's seen it. Embarrased she admits she took it and how it turned her on. What she won't know is her friend is her handler. She gets her to go to a party, where she starts with one man but in the heat of passion leads to more men where she lets herself go not knowing she is being taped. Now since she did all the naughty stuff of her own free will she will submit more freely because she hasn't had time to come to terms with her inner bad girl. And part of her wants to do it .
 
Now of course MC, if you use any of the ideas here and get a publishing contract, I am presuming you will list the Literotica posters in your credits at least?!! LOL.

Catalina:D
 
snoozebutton said:
Well since losing control would be her one weakness, you need to manipulate that happening. Curiosity is most everyones achilles heel. Perhaps a book with the main character being a woman who surrenders herself to her desires. Your character finds this and begins reading. She gets interested and swipes the book. Now after a certain period of time have one of her female co-workers she likes asks if she's seen it. Embarrased she admits she took it and how it turned her on. What she won't know is her friend is her handler. She gets her to go to a party, where she starts with one man but in the heat of passion leads to more men where she lets herself go not knowing she is being taped. Now since she did all the naughty stuff of her own free will she will submit more freely because she hasn't had time to come to terms with her inner bad girl. And part of her wants to do it . [

Hey girl,thats some plot you just gave him!
 
catalina_francisco said:
Now of course MC, if you use any of the ideas here and get a publishing contract, I am presuming you will list the Literotica posters in your credits at least?!! LOL.

Catalina:D

Yes of course! :D

These are a lot of really imaginative ideas, I'm really glad I took the chance to ask you all. Unfortunately I'm just not feeling her fitting with them, or them with the plot.

I was hoping for some sort of generic blackmail. Something that would work on everyone and all readers would be able to relate to. So that intelligent women like her, and even callous male readers who are perhaps less family driven, would all be able to put themselves in her shoes and feel her determined obedience despite tremendous shame and disgust, for fear of exposure.

I'm trying to turn typical slavery on its head, I suppose... In a stark contrast to consensual D/s and even hardcode Master/slave relationships the vital element of obedience is always a choice. While she may yet grow to enjoy her slavery, the initial choice and freewill must be stripped from her for a lengthy period. Unfortunately blackmail is not fitting this bill..

I am a realist and prefer not to delve into fantasies of magic and hypnosis (no offense meant to any practicing witches or hypnotists, but I have not witnessed anything to suggest either craft could honestly possess anyone's freewill) that are typical plot devices to get around this problem.

I suppose I need to look at the problem differently and try to think of something else entirely to be the hook of control. If anyone has any further suggestions for blackmail, or any other means of controlling this feisty young lady please post 'em! I'm really enthused by the response I've gotten so far and I'm very glad I have found this community.

Thanks a bunch everyone!

(I will even entertain attempts to convince me of magic or hypnosis, but please do so via pm.)

-Martin
 
MartinConteggio said:
Unfortunately I'm just not feeling her fitting with them, or them with the plot.

I was hoping for some sort of generic blackmail. Something that would work on everyone and all readers would be able to relate to. So that intelligent women like her, and even callous male readers who are perhaps less family driven, would all be able to put themselves in her shoes and feel her determined obedience despite tremendous shame and disgust, for fear of exposure.

I'm trying to turn typical slavery on its head, I suppose... In a stark contrast to consensual D/s and even hardcode Master/slave relationships the vital element of obedience is always a choice. While she may yet grow to enjoy her slavery, the initial choice and freewill must be stripped from her for a lengthy period. Unfortunately blackmail is not fitting this bill..

-Martin


It seems to me that you and everyone who has posted so far agrees that the character type you have created cannot be blackmailed. It stands to reason then that problem lays not within the plot but within the character. This is why I and think some of the others made the suggestion that she "consents" to blackmail though what she is being blackmailed for is something she does not care about being exposed.

You want to explore slavery. You want to as you said "turn typical slavery" on its head. What is typical slavery? It is hard for me to imagine a way to help you in your dilemna when I'm not sure how you define slavery. I have to question you - have you ever been a slave? Your first post seems to suggest you aren't a bdsmer - I'm not saying a person can't empathize but I find it hard to believe you can write this particular story without having in some way experienced "slavery" yourself.

You said she needs to not have a choice. That it is forced upon her. Kidnapping her seems a viable solution. She could spend the first part reasoning ways to save herself, escape, to bargain with her captors - until she learns to love it. I find this a little hard to believe though and I think this sort of plot device can often detract from the real inner turmoil.

I personally argue that it would be a much more engrossing story if she realizes she has a choice and when she doesn't take her out, she is angry and ashamed. Those begins her downspiral into a world of submission. Her "captor" doesn't have to remind her of a threat, she will respond - almost without choice because of her own hidden desires. I have often felt without choice.


I'll tell a little story: I have a friend that I think could be a lover and in fact, more. I could probably spend my life with him. Except I can't because he's so straight. While I think he would be willing to occasionally tie me up or spank me - it would never be what I truly wanted or needed. I have no choice but to suffer the heartbreak of continuing to put him off until I have experienced my submission to its fullest. Because I will not and cannot refuse my submission until I have know what it can be. Does that make sense? I don't think the saying is true that you can not miss what you have never tasted. If I were to marry this vanilla man having only had a hint of a taste of submission, I would question myself until the day I died. I have to know before I enter a relationship like that if I can live without it and the only way I can do that is to know what it is like to live with it.

I hope that has helped.
 
Blackmail is only effective if you the person has something to lose. Find the one thing she can't lose (car?, pet?, lover?, family?) and remove it. A good story line is the old poison her and withhold the antidote until she submits, cheesy but if you are not overly worried about plot then it works well. Explosive collar (bracelet watch, etc) would work too, but the poison one, the person slips it in her food when she is out to dinner, the only symptom could be something like her urine turns blue (real thing you can do, the substance is called methyl blue, competely harmless but the kidneys filter it out as a nice bright blue) something that subtle could be all you need for a good plot line.

Carnus
 
But the interesting thing is we are getting asked a lot lately to help people out with their story lines for books. My way of thinking is if you are a writer and worth publishing, you do not usually advertise for people to outline a suitable plot based on a minimal idea you vaguely have thought up (as this one appears as getting the cooperation of our heroine is presumably the beginning or near to it), and how to make it workable, you usually have your own plot with the solutions to any hitches you come across. Isn't that part of the challenge of writing?

Catalina:rose:
 
landcruisergal said:
Hey girl,thats some plot you just gave him!

Well being a man not sure how to respond. If further proof is needed I have a few female refrences that will definately concur with my statement lol As to the plot I always did like the sneaky bad girl. :devil:
 
snoozebutton said:
Well being a man not sure how to respond. If further proof is needed I have a few female refrences that will definately concur with my statement lol As to the plot I always did like the sneaky bad girl. :devil:

Oops, Begging forgiveness. :eek: I should be more careful. Ive often been accused of being bad , but never sneaky.
:rose: accept my apology?
 
landcruisergal said:
Oops, Begging forgiveness. :eek: I should be more careful. Ive often been accused of being bad , but never sneaky.
:rose: accept my apology?

Well of course, I have a gender neutral name. So no offence taken. Besises who can say no to a naughty nurse. :)
 
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