Storylines/Genres you hate

[dgreen1813]

What kinds of storylines, tropes or genres in erotica do you hate?

For me, one that I can't stand is stories that involve a mother getting with her son's bully. My reason for this actually doesn't have as much to do with the moral issues often associated with them but rather with the portrayal of the characters. The bully's almost always portrayed as this OP cartoon villain who is jacked, a god in bed, can seduce any and every woman in the victim's life, is smart enough to thwart any plans the victim tries, and seems to exist solely to torment the victim. Additionally, the mother's usually presented as a "caring and loving" mother who's secretly a malignant narcissist that doesn't care about anyone other than herself and the bully or she abandons any principles she has at the drop of a hat (usually after sleeping with the bully a handful of times). The portrayal of the characters in this trope has been enough to pretty much turn me off that genre altogether.

 

[lovecraft68]

Burn the bitch stories. Hatred is not a kink and has no right being on an erotic story site.

I'd say two thirds of all interracial stories and sex scenes here. Their racism is appalling.

Other than that, there's things I'll roll my eyes at, but nothing I feel that strongly about.

 

[madelinemasoch]

What kinds of storylines, tropes or genres in erotica do you hate?

For me, one that I can't stand is stories that involve a mother getting with her son's bully. My reason for this actually doesn't have as much to do with the moral issues often associated with them but rather with the portrayal of the characters. The bully's almost always portrayed as this OP cartoon villain who is jacked, a god in bed, can seduce any and every woman in the victim's life, is smart enough to thwart any plans the victim tries, and seems to exist solely to torment the victim. Additionally, the mother's usually presented as a "caring and loving" mother who's secretly a malignant narcissist that doesn't care about anyone other than herself and the bully or she abandons any principles she has at the drop of a hat (usually after sleeping with the bully a handful of times). The portrayal of the characters in this trope has been enough to pretty much turn me off that genre altogether.

That’s a really great point. I don’t like that type of story either. I don’t like any type of story that portrays having sex with a man as having some kind of “brainwashing” quality. The entire concept of being “cockdrunk” or “dickdumb” is repulsive to me. Having sex with a man is not actually going to change a strong woman’s mind about literally anything, and it’s not going to make her lose her mind or lose her moral compass. I don’t really care if it’s a bully or a mother, I don’t like that type of female character at all. I can see it being compelling if this is portrayed as a bad thing that actually reflects badly upon her, but no one ever writes that way, probably due to a failure of imagination, or a lack of sympathy for others, or perhaps a fear of being cancelled for “misogyny” just because they don’t approve of one woman’s choices, which is not misogyny. The idea that women just naturally submit to sex with men is the real misogyny here, and the idea that we should unconditionally support their quote-unquote “right to do so” supports that belief.

Otherwise, I don’t like stories where the female character is not very fleshed out or human, no matter what the genre is. I find this happens also in a lot of reader’s heads; even in situations where the woman is presented as human and going through painful events like losing her family, many readers publicly voice that they don’t see her as a person deserving of respect and dignity at all. I want to see some depth beyond sex in a female character instead of simply a doll or cardboard cutout. I want to see themes. Not just porn categories. I find for myself as a reader the male characters aren’t as important in this regard, and as a writer that female characters are a better vessel for thematic exploration, transformation, and emotion than male characters are.

There is no specific genre that gives me a squick. I’ve read all of them. One thing I detest (even in porn) is any thematic aim that essentially tells us the message that feminized boys or trans women have to be with men, or equates becoming a woman with having sex with a man. It makes me feel like I’m about to be sexually assaulted. It’s like the inverse of my entire sexual prescription and perspective.

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to think and share about that.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Scat. Just not sexy or anything but repugnant for me.

-Annie

 

[MrPixel]

I/T. I have personally been close to four incest situations in my lifetime and every single one ended in very broken families and tens of thousands spent in therapy.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Dehumanizing interracial stories.

 

[RetroFan]

Of mainstream genres, Westerns, I just find them boring and they don't engage me in any medium. I didn't even like Back to the Future Part 3.

Having said that, in my stories I have one set in the 1930s on a California film set where they are filming a Western and another set in the late 1980s where the main female character's weird husband secretly frequents a brothel where he gets his rocks off by dressing up as a cowboy, but I could never write a story with a Western theme.

 

[PapaRomantic]

12 inch cocks and 40P tits - bye bye.

 

[Treeview]

Incest

Scat

 

[OnlyHappyEndings]

Non-consent, blackmail... ah but I repeat myself. Reluctance is cool, though. Can be hot under the right circumstances.

 

[BellaBestia]

Any and all iterations of incest or even near-relative incest. Beyond distasteful it’s also a lazy taboo trope to write about.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm not the sort to hate anything or anyone. But the things that I avoid are anything with cruelty, degradation or humiliation.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Sees his big cock "accidentally" and then loses her mind and must have him.

Just ridiculous.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm not the sort to hate anything or anyone. But the things that I avoid are anything with cruelty or humiliation.

Yeah, "hate" is too strong a word - but explains why people get so vehement about content they don't like. "Move on" is more appropriate, I reckon.

 

[Justplainjeff]

Burn the bitch stories. Hatred is not a kink and has no right being on an erotic story site.

I'd say two thirds of all interracial stories and sex scenes here. Their racism is appalling.

Other than that, there's things I'll roll my eyes at, but nothing I feel that strongly about.

Any story, mostly interracial, where the "black bull" insists on calling his white conquest either bitch or slut. Actually, any man who degrades any woman.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Sees his big cock "accidentally" and then loses her mind and must have him.

Just ridiculous.

Yeah, I call it the "February Sucks" effect. It's incredibly far fetched.

 

[SimonDoom]

I can't say that I "hate" anything. There are some genres I'm not interested in, so I don't read them. There are some genres that make me uneasy or uncomfortable, but I don't hate them because I believe, if done right, it's OK for art to make people uneasy or uncomfortable. I write a lot of incest stories. If I stopped for a moment and took the subject matter in the stories seriously, I probably wouldn't write the stories because I think in real life it's harmful most of the time. But this is a fantasy space , so to me it's OK, and I feel the same way about stories in other genres like nonconsent where in the real world the activity would never be morally acceptable. Many BTB stories make me uneasy because, as far as I can tell, more than many other categories they represent a genuine world view that I believe to be seriously misguided. Whereas, I think many stories in categories like nonconsent or interracial are based on fantasy role play.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

The bully thing is annoying. One of the tropes, or whatever in T&C, where the guy is... wimp-like... and lust over the trans chick, who's usually a roommate, and only when she acts, does shit happen, and she pretty much dominates him sexually. It probably shouldn't bother me, but it does. I really can't think of anymore, but I don't read a whole lot on here, either.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm not the sort to hate anything or anyone. But the things that I avoid are anything with cruelty, degradation or humiliation.

Hate is a strong word, which is why I added there's many things here that I'll be like "yeah, whatever' but its a simple opinion and have at it, I'll go somewhere else.

The two I mention do earn the word because the issue-for me-is beyond what my erotic preferences are, but both of those glorify negativity, hate, bigotry, and in the BTB instance glorify violence and hatred against women and the comments are worse than the stories often times.

Hate, violence and racism should not be eroticized. Again, speaking for myself, its that simple and I don't see how people can't understand that.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yeah, I call it the "February Sucks" effect. It's incredibly far fetched.

February Sucks by itself pisses me off. Not the original, but the entire catalog of sequels written by men so insecure they can't stand to see a RAAC story and have to write their own bitch gets hers story because they have the hubris to know how another's story should be written. Many of those spin offs were written before the author decided to give permission, so toss plagiarism in there with the insecurity and hatred of women in factions of that category.

 

[StillStunned]

Erotica. Every time I think I should try to write something mainstream, erotica just sucks me back in. I can't quit it.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Not the original, but the entire catalog of sequels written by men so insecure they can't stand to see a RAAC story and have to write their own bitch gets hers story because they have the hubris to know how another's story should be written. Many of those spin offs were written before the author decided to give permission, so toss plagiarism in there with the insecurity and hatred of women in factions of that category.

I think we're all familiar with your feelings on this.

Not the original,

Yeah, the original speaks to the point that @Kelliezgirl made.

Sees his big cock "accidentally" and then loses her mind and must have him. Just ridiculous.

Someone who sees something she desires and is willing to shatter lives to have it. It's unbelievably cruel.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think we're all familiar with your feelings on this.


Yeah, the original speaks to the point that @Kelliezgirl made.

Someone who sees something she desires and is willing to shatter lives to have it. It's unbelievably cruel.

I will continue to make those feelings clear. I enjoy trolling weak men.

Yes, cruel, but sadly realistic. Well, I don't know that it would be over something that lame, but people do cruel things all the time. Especially men, except in LW where they are all noble and virtuous.

I am guilty of the "Big cock" trope, but in an I/T story and it was a fun piece where no one was hurt during the writing of it.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Cruelty, humiliation, violence, or exploitation in the story are the things I definitely don't like.

I can appreciate the occasional Burn-The-Bitch/Bastard story when the spouse is found having an affair and isn't cruelly rubbing the husband/wife's face in it. My latest work-in-progress is such a BTB/RAAC story. I don't like the violent retribution in response to such one-dimensional characters cheating their clueless spouse. But I can see the injured party moving on by taking everything they can from the cheater.

The problem with the February Sucks original was the way the wife dumped her husband in front of their friends at the dance on Valentine's Day to go off for her weekend with the lover. That was cruel and humiliating, with the "friends" effectively telling the husband "Yeah, we distracted you to give her time to get away, you pathetic cuckold," and RAAC in such a situation just seems unreal, forced, and a pathetic attempt to justify the wife's "agency." Such stories are IMO generously a 2. (I save the occasional 1 for objectively shitty writing and lack of any attempt at writing a coherent story.)

 

[Dearelliot]

Not hate...by no means...Not hate...But I do pass by:
High school, college dorms, boyfriends, girlfriends.
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