Sexually repressed times.

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Wondering, do people like to write stories during times of sexual repression? Such as the nineteen fifties, or the nineteenth century. Or Victorian England?

I have a lot of experience writing with sexual repression, because my category is Gay Male. Unless it is the future, or perhaps some sexually open society like the greeks, I HAVE to write my characters doing it in secret, or being careful about their trysts.

I'm wondering if anyone else likes to write about sex in a time where getting caught would mean severe punishment. Does it add to the thrill?
 
Having lived during the 50's and early sixties I can say that sex was alive and well but yes it was kept hidden.

I've written some stories set in that time of my life but they are under 18 so I haven't posted them. Across the board they aren't much different from today except changes over time.

Back then smoking was excepted, as was drinking and driving. It was a more peaceful time without drugs being readily available, the same for guns and gangs.

From my point of view (Age) some things are better and some things are much worse.
 
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In Victorian times, at least in major cities such as London, sex was rampant - just not mentioned very often.

The number of prostitutes as a percentage of the population in later Victorian London was higher than any time before or since. One study suggested that there was one prostitute for every seven adult men! Others say that was an overstatement and it was only one for every ten or twelve men...
 
Wondering, do people like to write stories during times of sexual repression? Such as the nineteen fifties, or the nineteenth century. Or Victorian England?

I have a lot of experience writing with sexual repression, because my category is Gay Male. Unless it is the future, or perhaps some sexually open society like the greeks, I HAVE to write my characters doing it in secret, or being careful about their trysts.

I'm wondering if anyone else likes to write about sex in a time where getting caught would mean severe punishment. Does it add to the thrill?

My guess is that people have been writing about sex since writing was invented and that it will never change. Authors tend to write on topics they are passionate about, and few things in life evoke passion quite like sex. During times of sexual repression, sex stories get more notice because of their in-the-day shock value, but I don't think they are produced in numbers that are significantly different from those at other times.

The prospect of getting caught adds to the thrill. Everybody like to get away with something.
 
In Victorian times, at least in major cities such as London, sex was rampant - just not mentioned very often.

The number of prostitutes as a percentage of the population in later Victorian London was higher than any time before or since. One study suggested that there was one prostitute for every seven adult men! Others say that was an overstatement and it was only one for every ten or twelve men...

Yes, and I've read examples of the porn from the time! Lets just say that there was a fetish for hairy women at the time. VERY hairy women.

I mean when sex wasn't publicly condoned. Or when it was a larger taboo to talk about it.
 
Having lived during the 50's and early sixties I can say that sex was alive and well but yes it was kept hidden.

I've written some stories set in that time of my life but they are under 18 so I haven't posted them. Across the board they aren't much different from today except changes over time.

Back then smoking was excepted, as was drinking and driving. It was a more peaceful time without drugs being readily available, the same for guns and gangs.

From my point of view (Age) some things are better and some things are much worse.

EXCEPTED, huh?
 
LOL! My Victorian stories are of an alternate time line and sex is most assuredly not repressed, at least among persons of a certain class, i.e. the one's I write about.
 
I cannot write about gay or lesbian life in historic times, and I don't much like reading it either-- especially lesbians, who usually get raped or whipped for the sake of historic accuracy, and invariably give up the love of their life for the sake of her happiness with a husband in those novels a la "Well of Lonliness." I'm always waiting for the yucky shit to start happening, which is not what I want to be doing when reading erotica!
 
I was a teenager in the Fifties, and I thought things were quite wild. Of course, I had no real basis of comparison. I do remember how so many girls and women were "saving themselves for marriage" which I always thought was a dumb idea, and something no boy or man would ever consider doing. I have also written stories in the first person about the decade, mostly about me in the US Air Force.
 
I cannot write about gay or lesbian life in historic times, and I don't much like reading it either-- especially lesbians, who usually get raped or whipped for the sake of historic accuracy, and invariably give up the love of their life for the sake of her happiness with a husband in those novels a la "Well of Lonliness." I'm always waiting for the yucky shit to start happening, which is not what I want to be doing when reading erotica!

I don't see where raping or whipping need to have any more to do with a gay historical story than a current day one does. I write a lot of historical stuff and the main problem I run into is that sex could occur a lot earlier in life in most historical pieces than it can here on Literotica.

Luckily for the current historical I'm doing now (the White Russian evacuation through the Crimea during the Russian Revolution), my protagonist starts off as a cadet in the Imperial Military Academy--which, historically, didn't take in anyone under 18 from the get go.
 
I don't see where raping or whipping need to have any more to do with a gay historical story than a current day one does. I write a lot of historical stuff and the main problem I run into is that sex could occur a lot earlier in life in most historical pieces than it can here on Literotica.

Luckily for the current historical I'm doing now (the White Russian evacuation through the Crimea during the Russian Revolution), my protagonist starts off as a cadet in the Imperial Military Academy--which, historically, didn't take in anyone under 18 from the get go.

I actually find it easier to have eighteen year old virgins in historical pieces. Because even if there isn't exactly sexual repression, it's a lot easier for them to be naive about it, or at least very shy.

And with my Gay stories, it becomes a cake walk. It's easy to have a virgin at almost any age, if they were afraid enough of the consequences, and unlucky enough to never find the underground communities.
 
I actually find it easier to have eighteen year old virgins in historical pieces. Because even if there isn't exactly sexual repression, it's a lot easier for them to be naive about it, or at least very shy.

And with my Gay stories, it becomes a cake walk. It's easy to have a virgin at almost any age, if they were afraid enough of the consequences, and unlucky enough to never find the underground communities.

Oh, I don't do much with virgins at all. But I do like to work with eighteen-year-olds. :D
 
'50s, '60s...in the mid 50's small bedroom communities were springing up on the outskirts of big metropolitan areas. Sex was popular not only among spouses but between like minded couples. Parties were held with sexually suggestive games played. Even though there was no sexual couplings at the party, there were plenty of couplings afterwards, in bedrooms around the neighborhood. And not always with each others spouse.

Drugs were just as readily available as they were in the '60s, '70s, right up to today. Reefer and heroin were the drugs of choice, although alcohol was used by more people than hard drugs.

The early '60s is when sex really became recreational entertainment in the suburbs of large cities. The only fear was pregnancy and gonorrhea. Gonorrhea was easily cured with the then popular antibiotic penicillin. Pregnancy was not so easily dealt with and caused some marriages to be dissolved.

Drug addiction wasn't as much a problem as today, but was something that happened, even to the best families.

Even though the 50's were a gentler time, sex has always been in the forefront of every human, male and female. And there were always those few couples on the block who had no children to get in the way of wild times.
 
If you have a story, write it. Don't write to be popular write what your story has and let it guide you. Hell, my stories aren't popular they just went where the characters took them.
 
Even though the 50's were a gentler time,

Yeah, the gentle tolerance of McCarthy, when integration meant a few token blacks could play ball, when a man could thrash his wife when he liked with impunity, when queers didn't exist - or dare to admit it, when the Reds could be blamed for everything. Life was just so so gentle!:)
 
Yeah, the gentle tolerance of McCarthy, when integration meant a few token blacks could play ball, when a man could thrash his wife when he liked with impunity, when queers didn't exist - or dare to admit it, when the Reds could be blamed for everything. Life was just so so gentle!:)

And you think today is all that different?
 
I cannot write about gay or lesbian life in historic times, and I don't much like reading it either-- especially lesbians, who usually get raped or whipped for the sake of historic accuracy, and invariably give up the love of their life for the sake of her happiness with a husband in those novels a la "Well of Lonliness." I'm always waiting for the yucky shit to start happening, which is not what I want to be doing when reading erotica!

Florence King is an excellent source of information about lesbians in the 50s. She was one back then.

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. The Florence King Reader (1995)


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Florence_King
 
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Yeah, the gentle tolerance of McCarthy, when integration meant a few token blacks could play ball, when a man could thrash his wife when he liked with impunity, when queers didn't exist - or dare to admit it, when the Reds could be blamed for everything. Life was just so so gentle!


And you think today is all that different?

Today is vastly different, although colddiesel is exaggerating. McCarthyism affected only a relatively few people,and most of them probably deserved to be affected. Now, avowed Communists have held down high level job in the administration. Terrorists, who not only admit to their terrorism but brag of it are respected citizens. Young people who burn and destroy and call it "demonstrating" are idolized by the press and actually supported by the president of the USA.

By the late Fifties, there were many prominent black athletes, in the Olympics, in major league team sports and most other venues, including all-star games. Don Newcome and Jackie Robinson and probably others won the highest individual awards MLB has, the MVP award, during the Fifties.

Men were not allowed to thrash their wives with impunity, but battered wives usually made no protest, so the men frequently got away with it. If she complained and actual injuries were present, the men got put in jail just as they do now and just as they should. However, "battering" meant more then than it does now.

I agree with colddiesel about gay people. They almost always have an easier time now than they did fifty or sixty years ago. There is still gay bashing, but it is an anomaly rather than the norm. For most people now, the attitude is "Live and let live."

"The Reds" did get blamed for a lot back then, sometimes correctly. Now it's the CIA who gets reviled.
 
McCarthyism affected only a relatively few people,and most of them probably deserved to be affected... [blah blah bluh bluh]
Oh, Box. Box.

oh... Box.

I hope you have a box to lick, baby. Today is one of those days when you need to do something you're actually good at-- as opposed to, say, thinking.
 
Oh, Box. Box.

oh... Box.

I hope you have a box to lick, baby. Today is one of those days when you need to do something you're actually good at-- as opposed to, say, thinking.

The population of the US then was about 180 million. A few thousand of them, mostly in politics or the entertainment industry were affected by McCarthyism. That is a relative few. I certainly wasn't affected, nor was anybody I knew.
 
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