The strangest "holy cows" you’ve discovered?

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

Basically, like the title says, what are the strangest things people have been offended/disgusted by in your stories? Personally, I don’t have much to offer other than the infamous anti-cuckolding complaint.

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

I got called a feminazi because I wrote about a woman who was sex-positive and actively controlled her own sex life. It was an eye-rolling moment.

 

[PoisonPen33]

A character in one of my stories is trying to quit smoking by smoking green tea cigarettes to help with his oral fixation. He even admits green tea cigarettes aren't good for him however they're helping him majorly curb his habit.

I got more (anonymous) flak for three paragraphs of a character discussing smoking than I have for my numerous grammatical errors.

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

I got called a feminazi because I wrote about a woman who was sex-positive and actively controlled her own sex life. It was an eye-rolling moment.

A lot of readers seem to want "pure" characters in their smut (especially if it’s a female character). It’s erotica, of course it’s going to be pro-sex!

A character in one of my stories is trying to quit smoking by smoking green tea cigarettes to help with his oral fixation. He even admits green tea cigarettes aren't good for him however they're helping him majorly curb his habit.

I got more (anonymous) flak for three paragraphs of a character discussing smoking than I have for my numerous grammatical errors.

Oef, I’ve got a few unpublished chapters that involve a lot of smoking. Looking forward to the feedback...

 

[NotWise]

There was (still is?) a reader who commented on one of my stories in Romance and my story in Novels and Novellas. They commented if they thought sex came too soon. The comments were all or mostly caps, and called the character a slut. OK, so it is an erotic site, right?

The one on my Novels and Novellas story amused me. It was to the effect of "Your characters aren't flappers, they're whores!" The characters were dead prostitutes, so duh.

Laurel deleted both of the comments without my input, and I don't think anything like that has appeared since she started moderating comments.

 

[yowser]

I have only done a couple BDSM stories but one of them had a cameo appearance of a hawk (medieval symbolism, fear element). The hawk remained unharmed but I got a quite indignant comment (anon of course) telling me: 'Warn us that the story involves animals.'

It had not occurred to me that the bondage folks would be squeamish about this.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

My For Your Dining Pleasure was an exhibitionism tale of a MF couple having sex in front of an audience. Multiple positions, a lot of 69 and she gave him oral a couple of times. She came more than he did, but one anonymous (of course) commenter complained that it was too male-focused. She'd given him head, but he hadn't given her solo oral even once, so it was, "too focused on the male pleasure."

Whatever.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've received some doozies, like the guy who complained about the part of the mother-son incest story where she sticks a finger in her ass, and he wrote "No self-respecting mother would do that!" That made me laugh.

But my all-time favorite comment received was this one:

Bad Very Bad
Regardless of what some these people say this was an extremely bad story im not going to tell you what i think you want to hear to try and be nice and not hurt your feelings my 5 Year old niece can write a better story then this it was so bad i hope this was your only story cause i tell you if not you should stop posting them before you ruin this site i wished i was blind and couldn't read that's how bad it is tell you what you want to learn to write an actual decent story take writing classes about 100 times a week no scratch that not even that will help you write a decent story do us all a favor and quit just completely forget how to write

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There was (still is?) a reader who commented on one of my stories in Romance and my story in Novels and Novellas. They commented if they thought sex came too soon. The comments were all or mostly caps, and called the character a slut. OK, so it is an erotic site, right?

The one on my Novels and Novellas story amused me. It was to the effect of "Your characters aren't flappers, they're whores!" The characters were dead prostitutes, so duh.

Laurel deleted both of the comments without my input, and I don't think anything like that has appeared since she started moderating comments.

That comment was from an AOL holdover. No worries.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have tons of comment on my stuff, especially LW stories so I won't go into those here as everyone knows what it's like over there.

I got a comment the other day on a story about... hell I don't remember and I'm to lazy to look it up, it was incest/taboo and he yelled at me for not putting a warning about the incest at the beginning. Idiot, it was in the category for incest.

I also don't get any anonymous comments as I have them turned off. I found that most weren't constructive and the rest were usually spam.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

I switched off anonymous comments after a serial hater/one-bomber called me a paedophile and was going to report me to the lady that approved my story.

Maybe I was wrong when I assumed eighteen was the de facto age of consent in Lit.

Or maybe I should have mentioned Georgia was eighteen more than the five times I did before she had sex?

And he sent me such a lovely email at the time too...

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Two comments come to mind-

In one, the person repudiated a statement in my story about the plight of indigenous North Americans (I was referring to the murder of a Cree girl in Northern Ontario). One of my characters is a black girl, and was taking about her experiences with prejudice.

The anonymous commenter said 'fuck (the n-word), they deserve what they get! And the natives should all be slaughtered if they can't hold on to what's theirs! The author is just an SJW, so fuck him too!'

Brave people, them anonymous commenters.

Another time, an incel was raging at me about the main female character in my story having a very liberated sexual past before meeting the man she's gonna marry. He raged that she was a slut, that the male character deserved better than her and that she deserved to be tied down and gang-raped before having acid thrown in her face.

Strong and liberated female characters are clearly a threat to omega males on this site. As a result, I keep using liberated and empowered female characters. Turns out you can troll the trolls.

I've turned off anonymous comments, because I won't give subhumans a forum to express their paralyzing fear and hate. Sad to think that a few more hugs from their mommy could've prevented them from becoming who they are.

 

[RetroFan]

Recently I've discovered that some Incest/Taboo readers are quite woke. The story in question was 'My Nephew Got Into My Knickers' about how a nephew named Cody who can't get on with his woke SJW mother Rhonda, father and sister and is sent to stay with his aunt Emily. Sisters Rhonda and Emily don't get along all that well, Emily being the pretty, popular and talented sister when the girls were growing up and Rhonda the plain, unpopular sister with no real talents.

The satirical story mocks social justice warriors, political correctness and left wing ideology as well as social media, such as Rhonda using these platforms to promote her daughter's woke attention seeking and the daughter being triggered by the most ridiculous things imaginable.

I got a number of readers complaining that it was appalling that I was using Literotica to push my political views and that I should go on political sites if I wanted to do that.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

It's not much of a "holy cow", but it annoyed me, so I'm going to mention it.

I got anonymous feedback (email, not comment) on my story "Doctor's Orders". I wrote it for the On The Job challenge, and it's set, unsurprisingly, in a hospital. The first thousand-ish words are sort of a prologue, reminiscence by the narrator. The feedback was that I'm an "ok" writer, but the reader was "backing out now" because they couldn't stomach reading about an "immoral and unethical, unequal relationship" between a doctor and a patient.

It's about a doctor and another employee at the hospital, which becomes crystal clear in the second sentence of the real action of the story, immediately following that sort of prologue part.

I dunno. I do understand not wanting to read something you won't like, I just keep thinking that it took them longer to send me that feedback than it would have to read a few more sentences and realize the plot isn't what they thought.

 

[YDB95]

Recently I've discovered that some Incest/Taboo readers are quite woke. The story in question was 'My Nephew Got Into My Knickers' about how a nephew named Cody who can't get on with his woke SJW mother Rhonda, father and sister and is sent to stay with his aunt Emily. Sisters Rhonda and Emily don't get along all that well, Emily being the pretty, popular and talented sister when the girls were growing up and Rhonda the plain, unpopular sister with no real talents.

The satirical story mocks social justice warriors, political correctness and left wing ideology as well as social media, such as Rhonda using these platforms to promote her daughter's woke attention seeking and the daughter being triggered by the most ridiculous things imaginable.

I got a number of readers complaining that it was appalling that I was using Literotica to push my political views and that I should go on political sites if I wanted to do that.

I get those all the time from the other end of the spectrum (and lately, an anonymous commenter on random stories of mine falsely claiming I advocate violence against Trump supporters. I generally don't delete even the most critical of comments, but I draw the line at lies about me!).

I got called a feminazi because I wrote about a woman who was sex-positive and actively controlled her own sex life. It was an eye-rolling moment.

I got a similar comment over my story The Last Summer of its Kind. The protagonist is a gentleman who respects women, his two buddies are a couple of chauvinistic jerks, and the comment was something to the effect that "only in an erotica story would a feminist wimp like that get laid". I can't recall exactly what the comment was because it was subsequently deleted (not by me), but that was the gist of it.

Then there was this doozy in response to What's Her Name? I Can't Tell You!:

Made up statistics 1 of 3 women raped is absurd and NOT even close to the truth. Makes women seem like simpering fools and they are NOT! the characters came across as too stupid to be freshmen in high school much less college...

Um...that's the whole point? The character who cites that statistic is a jerk who literally takes it upon herself to call every male student on campus a "potential rapist", and who has alienated even most of the other feminist activists with her extremism.

I dunno. I do understand not wanting to read something you won't like, I just keep thinking that it took them longer to send me that feedback than it would have to read a few more sentences and realize the plot isn't what they thought.

That happened to me as well with After the Party at Christmas:

Quit part way through

Sorry I just didn’t understand where you were going with this, if these people are pissed off with this woman treats them why not just cut her out of their lives?

It's a two-page story, and it ends (SPOILER ALERT for anyone who wants to read the story first) with the revelation that one of the characters was just imagining himself and some of his co-workers living in a dom-sub relation with their boss. I can't tell just how far the reader got, but she may well have quit just a paragraph short of the revelation.


And last but not least, since most of my stories involve women with big bushes, I've gotten more insults than I can count about how my male characters might as well fuck gorillas and the like. Then again, I've also gotten plenty of feedback from women who are similarly endowed and love seeing a positive portrayal for a change. Totally worth it!

 

[SisterJezabel]

Where to start! I was told that I was the sort of person that made the world a crappy place with my "PC nonsense" when I mentioned a girl child wanting a race car for Christmas.

2 characters who had been talking about sex for over 24 hours then brushed hands, felt the electricity, lips met and they then went hot and heavy and I was told it was unbelievable and people don't have sex that quickly.

There's a prominent author in mature who always has his women in their late 30s and the males in their mid 20s and everyone assumes mature is the correct category. I wrote a story with a 23yo woman, 40yo male and was told that 40 was not mature and it should be placed elsewhere! (Maybe- I mean, I do get what they are saying, but double standards much!?!)

One reader decided my story deserved a 1* because the last page contained a single line and I should have fixed that. Er... Funnily enough, once I edited for a few grammatical inconsistencies the last page dropped. Not sure if said reader adjusted their rating though ;-)

 

[YDB95]

One reader decided my story deserved a 1* because the last page contained a single line and I should have fixed that. Er... Funnily enough, once I edited for a few grammatical inconsistencies the last page dropped. Not sure if said reader adjusted their rating though ;-)

That reminds me of the reader (who did at least have the moxie to post under hir screen name rather than anonymously, but I won't reveal it here) who boasted about disliking at least two of my stories so much that s/he gave them "no stars". Evidently that individual didn't realise that if you don't like my stories and don't vote on them at all, that's a net-positive for the rating!

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

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[Zeb_Carter]

And the thing about comments... you the author have the power to make them disappear.

Once got a comment from a reader about deleting one of their comments, started in on my parentage etc. I replied, that my mother was married when I was born, and promptly deleted their message. He posted again. His comment disappeared without comment.

So, you can deal with stupid as often as need be.

 

[QuillPig]

Recently I've discovered that some Incest/Taboo readers are quite woke. The story in question was 'My Nephew Got Into My Knickers' about how a nephew named Cody who can't get on with his woke SJW mother Rhonda, father and sister and is sent to stay with his aunt Emily. Sisters Rhonda and Emily don't get along all that well, Emily being the pretty, popular and talented sister when the girls were growing up and Rhonda the plain, unpopular sister with no real talents.

The satirical story mocks social justice warriors, political correctness and left wing ideology as well as social media, such as Rhonda using these platforms to promote her daughter's woke attention seeking and the daughter being triggered by the most ridiculous things imaginable.

I got a number of readers complaining that it was appalling that I was using Literotica to push my political views and that I should go on political sites if I wanted to do that.

That's no "holy cow." Do you think people really want moronic right-wing propaganda with their erotica?

Well, maybe the Loving Wives readers do.

I'd have dropped a fat 1-bomb on that one without any hesitation and probably left a comment telling you why.

 

[PoisonPen33]

Well this is escalating quickly.

 

[jehoram]

I've had a few. One of them was a reader getting upset about one of my characters eating out a woman when she was on the rag. Another was a reference to father-daughter sex, even though it was "off-screen," so to speak. I'm sure there were others, but none spring readily to mind.

 

[SimonDoom]

That's no "holy cow." Do you think people really want moronic right-wing propaganda with their erotica?

Well, maybe the Loving Wives readers do.

I'd have dropped a fat 1-bomb on that one without any hesitation and probably left a comment telling you why.

I'm sure, judging from my brief forays into the Politics Board, that there's an audience for every type of propaganda at Literotica. I see no reason not to write stories for them, and I see no reason why I would ever 1-bomb an author's story just because I didn't like their politics.

 

[QuillPig]

I'm sure, judging from my brief forays into the Politics Board, that there's an audience for every type of propaganda at Literotica. I see no reason not to write stories for them, and I see no reason why I would ever 1-bomb an author's story just because I didn't like their politics.

Climate change deniers are a threat to human life. They deserve much more than a 1-bomb on a website.

 

[SimonDoom]

Climate change deniers are a threat to human life. They deserve much more than a 1-bomb on a website.

I categorically disagree with this way of thinking.

I would say communism is a threat to human life. But if someone wrote a clever parable, in good prose and vivid characters, about the wonders of communism, I could imagine giving it a 5 if it was clever and artful enough.

This is an erotic story website. The fate of the world does not hinge upon anything that's published here. Have fun with it.