Taboo Subject Matter

[Xploremyworld]

Hey guys... I've only been a member for a relatively short period of time, and have four (plus one, pending) stories published. Thanks! This is a great outlet for us frustrated writers of erotica.
I do have a question as to what is acceptable material. I am reworking a story which I wrote a few years back, because I'm not sure about how minors can be portrayed in published material. The storyline in the story I'm reworking has to do with a lactating mother, whose female friend is aroused by watching her breast feed. It gets more involved, in that after the baby's appetite is sated, and he is removed from the scene (put to bed), the mother confides to her friend that breast-feeding does get her aroused.
Does this fall outside the bounds of what is acceptable in literotica? Incidently, I have read at least one story in which a character relates a very sexual scene with her father, when she was twelve.
What's the reality? Again, thanks for a truly great site!!

Xploremyworld

 

[HawaiiBill]

age

Guidelines are posted here:
http://www.literotica.com/faq/05235347.shtml#05319407

Some find them confusing and that may be considered a good thing.
If they were too rigid it would prevent good writers from some tales.

The guidelines say:
"Basically, our biggest requirement is that we do not accept any story in which characters under the age of 18 are involved in sexual situations. We also have a minimum length guide. Please read the guidelines before submitting. If after reading our Guidelines you still have questions, feel free to email us." That you did, to the Editor's Forum, but had you clicked on the link you would have been here;
http://www.literotica.com:81/stories/memberpage.php?page=contact&uid=81387
...and you might have found no help at all there.

The 18-year-old minimum is an important requirement. Clearly some
other situations slip through from time to time and, chances are, if you
found that story and queried specifically there might be a loophole in
it that allowed it through. Don't know about that.

In my view, specific to your query, the infant nursing is not
"involved in sexual situations." The mother might have been aroused
by the perfectly natural act of nursing as, I'm told, most are! But there
is nothing inappropriate about that and certnly the infant is innocent.

So it would be highly out of place to ban that as a Literotica story.
That's my view and it's worth very little to those who make the decisions.

I do suggest you read the guidelines, however, and if you have
questions about any of them query us here and we'll likely join in to
encourage a.) clearer guidelines and b.) more sensible rules in some
cases.

I am one, by the way, who think that the publishers of this and every
print or online publication have every right to publish or not publish
anything they see fit. It's theirs.

 

[Amy Sweet]

I would submit the story and see if it's accepted.

If it's not, there are other sites that may accept it.

In the US, there is not a law forbidding written material. It's all a mater of site guidelines.

 

[kristaboe]

good rule of thumb...'when in doubt, leave it out'

 

[Xploremyworld]

Okay... I decided to write the breast-feeding baby OUT of the scene... The story (Milking Laura) has been submitted, and is now pending. Thanks for the input!

Xploremyworld

 

[Guest]

Okay... I decided to write the breast-feeding baby OUT of the scene... The story (Milking Laura) has been submitted, and is now pending. Thanks for the input!

Xploremyworld

Did you have an editor check that for you?

 

[BlackSnake]

Hey guys... I've only been a member for a relatively short period of time, and have four (plus one, pending) stories published. Thanks! This is a great outlet for us frustrated writers of erotica.
I do have a question as to what is acceptable material. I am reworking a story which I wrote a few years back, because I'm not sure about how minors can be portrayed in published material. The storyline in the story I'm reworking has to do with a lactating mother, whose female friend is aroused by watching her breast feed. It gets more involved, in that after the baby's appetite is sated, and he is removed from the scene (put to bed), the mother confides to her friend that breast-feeding does get her aroused.
Does this fall outside the bounds of what is acceptable in literotica? Incidently, I have read at least one story in which a character relates a very sexual scene with her father, when she was twelve.
What's the reality? Again, thanks for a truly great site!!

Xploremyworld

Fixing the story. How important is watching the mother breast feed? If the arousal is not gain from watching the baby pull and suck on the mother's nipples, which is crossing the line, I'd say scratch the scene.

I think you'd do well catching the mother right after the fact. The mother could be a mess...milk pouring out of her sensative erect nipples. She needs them to be uncovered. The focus is on the full ripe breasts. The girlfriend can be free to satisfy her curiousity with the mother's tits.

 

[sweetgirl666]

There are a couple of lactating stories on there. There is also a pretty big szene out there of people who either induced lactation or kept it up purely for their adult partners, as it does arouse quite some women to have their adult male partner suckle them...

 

[BlackSnake]

There are a couple of lactating stories on there. There is also a pretty big szene out there of people who either induced lactation or kept it up purely for their adult partners, as it does arouse quite some women to have their adult male partner suckle them...

Go with that angle and leave references to children out. It shouldn't be that difficult to do that.

 

[flyer333]

Another Paradox

In this vein I would also like to ask a question from the experience base that bless this site before I make my next submission.

If a woman of 18 recalls in her youth of masturbating, and as long as there is an inference with no details, is that acceptable?

In my story a woman recalls "lying in bed at night and rubbing between my legs". It's vague and a fact of life. Don't want that to be a problem. I could remove it but I would like the readers to be aware of the character's history.

Would appreciate feedback. THX!

 

[LadyCibelle]

Re: Another Paradox

In this vein I would also like to ask a question from the experience base that bless this site before I make my next submission.

If a woman of 18 recalls in her youth of masturbating, and as long as there is an inference with no details, is that acceptable?

In my story a woman recalls "lying in bed at night and rubbing between my legs". It's vague and a fact of life. Don't want that to be a problem. I could remove it but I would like the readers to be aware of the character's history.

Would appreciate feedback. THX!

No it's not. Look in the AH the thread called "Underage rule" something or the other...it's by "Whisky7Up" it's really well explained why it's not.

 

[HawaiiBill]

If you were working for money . . .

...the quickest way to get fired or have your story round-filed is to try to guess what the editor wants you to write.

That's fatal.

Your job is to write the stories. The editor's job -- or the publisher's -- is to get it in shape for publication including whipping out the parts the publisher doesn't like for any reason.

Write for the end reader,not the editor. Let the editor do his or her job as required.

 

[flyer333]

Many thanks

Thx LC. That solves that.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Re: Many thanks

Thx LC. That solves that.

You're welcome Flyer. That's but a small part of what being an editor is all about...you know the answer, you give it

I'm in the process of sending you people...I just have to convince them you're going to make a good job

 

[flyer333]

Or so I thought...

In re-reading I cannot determine the answer I initially thought. YES = I can, NO = I can't.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Re: Or so I thought...

In re-reading I cannot determine the answer I initially thought. YES = I can, NO = I can't.

No you can't Flyer...it's absolutely contrary to Lit's rule

 

[flyer333]

<Sigh> I will of course adhere and add this lesson to the forefront of my mind. I am a bit disappointed I might also add. I think it detracts from the character I am attempting to develop. Oh well. Maybe I shoud move...

 

[Xploremyworld]

Flyer...
I started this thread, and got pretty much the same line of advice. Bottom line is that no really seems to know if there is an iron-clad rule that states the extent to which you can reference minors in stories here. In my case, I called myself being creative and substituted a BREAST PUMP for a nursing baby. It just ain't the same... Kinda difficult to project a voyeur being turned on by the sight of a breast pump expressing milk. Ah, the plights of us authors. If it ain't the fickle readers, it's something else.
All in all, I still get a lot of enjoyment here.

 

[Lonely Knight]

Xploremyworld, place yourself in the caracter's mind. A voyeur is a voyeur is a voyeur, unless he/she also happens to be a deranged rapist. He/she is watching a woman perform an act that to him is exciting, expressing milk. He/she gives not a damn that it is for a baby, he/she wants it for him/herself, and it is the act that excites him/her, nothing else.

Flyer, just eliminate the "youth" reference..... as she lay there with her hand yet again between her thighs she vaguely recalled the sense of urgency she had once felt before..... Was it last week, or ten years ago..... does it matter?

 

[flyer333]

Direction

Thx all. Esp. 2 C.