Stories about High School Teenagers

[OmnislashXX]

So... I'll come right out and say it. I think plots involving older teenagers ( 16 on up) can be really hot if written correctly. I think virgin stories can get the blood pumping just as well, but I'm realistic in knowing those kinds of character are probably going to be young and in high school. And yes, stories generally centering around school (Students and teachers for instance) can be pretty intense.

That said I'm currently writing a fiction that's basically going to be about a senior in high school trying to seduce her friend's dad. Age difference is one major reason why I want the male character to resist his attraction to her flirtatious advances. However, I know these kinds of plot lines are generally rejected on Literotica. So,I just want to know how I could get the story published on here or what people may recommend.

Thanks in advance.

 

[_Lynn_]

So... I'll come right out and say it. I think plots involving older teenagers ( 16 on up) can be really hot if written correctly. I think virgin stories can get the blood pumping just as well, but I'm realistic in knowing those kinds of character are probably going to be young and in high school. And yes, stories generally centering around school (Students and teachers for instance) can be pretty intense.

That said I'm currently writing a fiction that's basically going to be about a senior in high school trying to seduce her friend's dad. Age difference is one major reason why I want the male character to resist his attraction to her flirtatious advances. However, I know these kinds of plot lines are generally rejected on Literotica. So,I just want to know how I could get the story published on here or what people may recommend.

Thanks in advance.

You should keep in mind that Lit's minimum legal age is 18. No sexual activity involving underage persons will be considered. Guidelines here.

 

[oggbashan]

You should keep in mind that Lit's minimum legal age is 18. No sexual activity involving underage persons will be considered. Guidelines here.

Just stating that a character is aged 18 isn't enough. He/she has to have adult characteristics.

If you really want to write about High School Teenagers then Literotica isn't the place to post those stories. They will always be close to breaking Lit's rule.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

No Lassie, no Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm here on LIT.

 

[oggbashan]

No Lassie, no Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm here on LIT.

They could be here - IF nothing sexual happened and they were in the Non-Erotic category.

We can write about dogs and children but not about sex with dogs and children.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Another one who doesn't read the submission rules, a link, which is right there on the first page.

You want underage sex? Go to Asstr.

 

[sr71plt]

What would be the difference in having the younger character in a nonresidential junior college rather than high school other than the need to play the underage card?

 

[MayorReynolds]

However, I know these kinds of plot lines are generally rejected on Literotica.

No, the plot lines aren't what is rejected. The character being underage is.

Even if she is eighteen, she needs to look and act eighteen. You cannot have a paragraph about how she's 4'8" and her nubs started coming in yesterday and then rubber stamp it with "By the way, she's eighteen!" Don't mention her falling asleep and having an older adult carry her to bed in his arms (I've seen that before; nice try.) Laurel has probably seen submissions in the six figures by now. You will not skirt around the rules that way.

As an added precaution, take her out of high school. A high school setting is precarious. It's safer if it is summer after high school or first day of college. "High school" is an automatic red flag for "underaged."

And please read the rules. It sounds like you either skimmed them or misunderstood them.

 

[OmnislashXX]

Yeah, I already know everything you people just told me. Quite frankly, I can -and have- read the rules. And while I have no desire to write about young people who are in stages of sexual development, I would like to portray them with adult characteristics and in settings that I believe are interesting.

Thanks for the advice and all.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

If you state she's 18 and she doesn't look or act 15, you'll be fine. Younger women and older men is a staple here. As noted, if you avoid the sense that you're "really" trying to write a 16 year old and slip her past the rules, it's all good.

You can look at my Why I Love My Job as a story with an 18 year old girl who acts 18, with a guy in his early 30's. (I think it's an interesting story because it's the guy who ends up growing up.) It went through without a hitch.

Some decades hence, when people are hitting puberty at 8 and the US okay's sex at 16 (like many other places), Laurel or her successors might conceivably consider a rules change, if only to keep market share. But that time is nowhere near soon.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

They could be here - IF nothing sexual happened and they were in the Non-Erotic category.

We can write about dogs and children but not about sex with dogs and children.

LAUREL gives me trouble about murders that have nothing to do with sex. When she has an ICK response any excuse works for her. I don't do kids or pups ever. But alligators are okay.

 

[sr71plt]

LAUREL gives me trouble about murders that have nothing to do with sex.

I think she looks at Literotica as an erotica story site, something that doesn't seem to have occurred to you yet.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I'd suggest it's only your misplaced sense of artistic integrity preventing you from bumping up the ages into an acceptable range.

Many of my stories involved learning about sex for the first time. It's an easy hook for hanging a plot. I would suggest that you can still tell the story you want without violating the site's conditions and terms. Many people don't lose their virginity until later in life. Either challenge your Muse to overcome the minor restrictions of the site or accept that the site will somehow persevere without your contribution.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It's an attempt at a work around. A way to skirt the rules. What is this, like the third post about this in a month?

OP, I don't need to hear your response to this.

 

[TamLin01]

High school is fine. Who said it wasn't? I've written stories set in high schools here, and so have plenty of other people. You just can't have underage (18) characters having sex. That's all there is to it.

 

[sr71plt]

High school is fine. Who said it wasn't? I've written stories set in high schools here, and so have plenty of other people. You just can't have underage (18) characters having sex. That's all there is to it.

"High school" is code for underage, and is understood as such by those looking for underage. Sorry, that's the way it is. That's all there is to it.

I think we can stop beating up on the OP on this now, though. The OP graciously bowed out on the need to write underage here several posts ago.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

"High school" is code for underage, and is understood as such by those looking for underage. Sorry, that's the way it is. That's all there is to it.

The rules state no described sexual involvement under the age of 18. Check - characters need to be 18 years of age. Adding a list of additional criteria - she can't be slight of build, she can't be in high school, she can't have a tendency to put her finger in her mouth or do any other flirtatious sign of innocence that real people over 18 do... these aren't requirements. Yes, there are readers out there that will construe such characters as underage, but there are readers out there that will do that regardless, and I don't think as authors we are asked to be thought police.

Laurel set an age limit. In doing so she set herself up as the sole arbiter of when a character gives the wrong impression, which is not a job I'd want and is very much her choice and her problem. I don't think we need to "help" by setting rules she hasn't set herself.

Maybe I find this especially annoying because there's clear bestiality here that masquerades as fantasy, and there's incest here which is virtually always a code for abuse of the underaged; but no one pounces on those authors. But let someone so much as leave an opening to suggest that their character is doing what happens in about 50% of the US population, and certain folk get real righteous in their kink shaming. It's gotten old.

For the record, I have one character who's 18 and there's absolutely nothing about her to suggest she's a day younger - she's fully developed and if anything preternaturally wise. I'm not interested in a rules change, which is as well because one won't happen. But I think we need to stop extending the rules on Laurel's behalf.

 

[SecondCircle]

If the story demonstrates that the characters involved in any sexual activity at all are consenting adults that are 18 yrs of age, (not an 18 yr old with the maturity and mannerisms of a younger person as a way to masquerade the underaged) then high school is fine.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't care what the rules say or playing with the rules you think justifies you and fools anyone else. That dog don't bark. If you have to have it as high school rather than junior college, you are playing the underage card and those looking for underage know the code. You may think you are fooling folks, but you aren't.

 

[EverLux]

I don't care what the rules say or playing with the rules you think justifies you and fools anyone else. That dog don't bark. If you have to have it as high school rather than junior college, you are playing the underage card and those looking for underage know the code. You may think you are fooling folks, but you aren't.

That's a judgmental generalization. Of course there are plenty of writers trying to skirt the rules, and there are plenty of readers seeking out those stories. And there always will be. But not all stories set in high school are attempts to create underage characters disguised as eighteen-year-olds.

I set my series in high school, because it's (loosely) based on my own high school experience. My characters are eighteen and don't look or act like anything less. I didn't write it this way in order to attract the type of reader you described. I did it because it was an integral part of the story.

As others have said--eighteen is the only rule that was set. You can find it repugnant all you like.

 

[sr71plt]

That's what those playing the card and look for the code of playing the card deal in. Who do you think you're fooling? And what else is relevant? Surely not those trying to make excuses for what they are doing.

I'm not knocking underage. I think that underage is below 18 in reality, and much below that in a period piece. But I'm not going to be dishonest about what card is being played by those who have to index high school.

 

[EverLux]

That's what those playing the card and look for the code of playing the card deal in. Who do you think you're fooling? And what else is relevant? Surely not those trying to make excuses for what they are doing.

I'm not knocking underage. I think that underage is below 18 in reality, and much below that in a period piece. But I'm not going to be dishonest about what card is being played by those who have to index high school.

So I'm automatically guilty of this, based on your standards?
But not Laurel's or my own, so I'm not going to worry about it.

 

[sr71plt]

So I'm automatically guilty of this, based on your standards?
But not Laurel's or my own, so I'm not going to worry about it.

I don't know what you are. I know the use of the underage card when I see it, though. I've done a whole lot of writing on the edge myself.

And I don't care how much you all squirm on this issue.

I'll add as a corollary to this that a lot of the high school scenarios I see published to Literotica appear to reflect the limit of the world of the author--that is written by high schoolers who shouldn't be on Literotica at all.

 

[CharlieB4]

It's a tough one. In Australia the age of consent in all states is sixteen. Students at high school can be almost nineteen.

I wrote a story that started out in high school before moving to university. In my first version the main character had "relations" with his teacher when he was sixteen. It obviously didn't get past the first hurdle and that was fair enough.

With my editors help we revised it putting the guy in his last year of school and over eighteen. It got accepted but three days in there was a complaint and it was pulled again. We went through it again and found one reference to sixteen we'd missed and after it was removed the story was accepted and is still up.

 

[rightbank]

I just finished reading a series in which the main male character is a high school student and it isn't until the 5th of 7 parts that he turns 18. Also in the story are his 2 sisters the youngest of whom is 15. The boy is very sexually active with women and girls, students and non-students of varying ages. So too are both of the sisters.

I have noticed that some authors post a header or disclaimer at the beginning of their stories declaring that all participants in sexual activity are at least 18 years of age. This one did not.

So, how hard and fast is this rule? Or is it merely a guideline?