The strangest "holy cows" you’ve discovered?

[BelleCanzuto]

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

This^^^
In spades.

 

[NotWise]

This^^^
In spades.

So it isn't going to change the world, but I found even RetroFan's description of his story to be insulting.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

So it isn't going to change the world, but I found even RetroFan's description of his story to be insulting.

Well, between you, me, Simon, that lampshade over there and anybody in the NSA who's listening, RetroFan's descriptions of their stories have basically ensured I'll never read any of them. Because, yeah, I find it hard to square that kind of vitriol with anything entertaining. But I still agree with Simon's assertion, nothing written here is life changing, it's supposed to be fun. So if Retro has fun writing like that, and their readers have fun reading it, then, well ok.

Maybe channeling their energy that way keeps them (writer and readers) from doing something that might be, um, less fun to real people.

 

[YDB95]

So it isn't going to change the world, but I found even RetroFan's description of his story to be insulting.

Me too. The liberal sister is ugly and dumb and the other one is beautiful? Gross.

 

[NotWise]

Me too. The liberal sister is ugly and dumb and the other one is beautiful? Gross.

I guess you can pick what you want to be offended by. That wasn't mine.

 

[Jada59]

They said I wrote porn. Yep!

 

[jaF0]

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

This is why I would eliminate voting and ratings.

 

[RetroFan]

Me too. The liberal sister is ugly and dumb and the other one is beautiful? Gross.

Can I ask what is so offensive about a story with two sisters where the woke, left-wing, SJW older sister is unattractive, untalented and not a nice person while the conservative minded younger sister is beautiful, talented and a nice person? That the older sister was always envious and resentful of the younger sister when the girls were growing up is essential to the plot of the story, and I wrote it to appeal to people who want to read about aunts and nephews having sex, so why wouldn't I make the aunt attractive?

Would a story where the premise is flipped - an unattractive woman with conservative right wing views packs her black sheep son off to live with her younger sister, who is an attractive left-wing artistic hippie type and the aunt and nephew become secret lovers - be offensive?

What if it was a very attractive and talented left-wing liberal mother who sent her black sheep son off to live with her trailer park sister who is an overweight, chain-smoking redneck with very right wing political views and plain in looks and they became lovers? Is this offensive?

 

[TxRad]

Offensive no. Stupid and argumentative, yes.

No one cares about your political views or anyone else's for that matter. That's why there is a political forum. We don't need or want it here.

Bye.

 

[SexyShel]

Maybe there could be two sets of votes.

One set of votes is from people who have actually had a story published on lit.

The other set of votes is from people who have a profile on lit. but have not published a story.

Therefore, one set of votes from your peers and one set of votes from your readers.

 

[YDB95]

Can I ask what is so offensive about a story with two sisters where the woke, left-wing, SJW older sister is unattractive, untalented and not a nice person while the conservative minded younger sister is beautiful, talented and a nice person? That the older sister was always envious and resentful of the younger sister when the girls were growing up is essential to the plot of the story, and I wrote it to appeal to people who want to read about aunts and nephews having sex, so why wouldn't I make the aunt attractive?

Would a story where the premise is flipped - an unattractive woman with conservative right wing views packs her black sheep son off to live with her younger sister, who is an attractive left-wing artistic hippie type and the aunt and nephew become secret lovers - be offensive?

What if it was a very attractive and talented left-wing liberal mother who sent her black sheep son off to live with her trailer park sister who is an overweight, chain-smoking redneck with very right wing political views and plain in looks and they became lovers? Is this offensive?

I'm happy to debate this on the Political forum if you want. We probably shouldn't bring that in here.

 

[jehoram]

Maybe there could be two sets of votes.

One set of votes is from people who have actually had a story published on lit.

The other set of votes is from people who have a profile on lit. but have not published a story.

Therefore, one set of votes from your peers and one set of votes from your readers.

I was thinking along those same line. I also propose a subset of the first tier, where the votes would come from people who have at least a 3 average on their stories, on the theory that their opinions are of more value, since they come from people who actually have a clue about how to write a story. It would be like other associations like the MacArthur Foundation or the film Academy, where winning admission also awards you the right to nominate or judge future submissions.

I was going to propose a 4 average, but I think that would expose the danger of this proposal: that the winners of high scores would only be the ones who write like the previous winners, who would then have too high an influence on the kind of erotica we publish.

 

[jehoram]

The fate of the world does not hinge upon anything that's published here.

I think it does. I think that most of the problems of this world are caused by people who don't have enough orgasms. If these people had more orgasms, they would be happier and wouldn't have to amass money or start wars or do other antisocial acts.

So I've dedicated my life to writing stories that make people orgasm. If enough of us writers did it, and did it well, the we would in some small way make the world a better place.

 

[jehoram]

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.

How about this one: I wrote a story in which two lovers in the woods pissed in front of each other, to show their need for intimacy. (The story was "Bigfoot and the Wood Nymph Ch. 02"). It elicited this reaction from the estimable critic Ann Nonymous:

ew
That was the most disgusting thing i have ever read. Weirdo

I had a proud moment there.

And, last I checked, the story had a 4.49 rating, just shy of the red H that the first chapter got.
And the first chapter had the same pee play in it.

 

[mfan2112]

I had a comment that just said "Fuck Prose."

Umm, hate to break it to you my dear reader, but I did not post on the poetry board. If you want poetry, don't read my work.

 

[UtherVierDragon]

I had a comment that just said "Fuck Prose."

Umm, hate to break it to you my dear reader, but I did not post on the poetry board. If you want poetry, don't read my work.

Maybe it's strictly descriptive? You know, prose about fucking or "fuck prose" for short?

 

[RetroFan]

I'm amused when a reader takes me to task for having characters, events, or general plot that is unbelievable. I mean, it's fiction, right? An excuse to write about hot sex scenes. Maybe the problem is I wrote about ordinary people, so the expectation is that ordinary people have only ordinary experiences.

Take the following plot: Ex-con gets rich, adopts an orphan girl, she grows up and falls madly in love with a poor youth who had been disowned by his rich grandfather, an evil cop has been chasing the ex-con for years, they all get caught up in a revolution, ex-con dies, boy and girl marry and live happily ever after. Pretty unbelievable, right? That's the basic plot of Les Miserables. So I'm not Victor Hugo. Deal with it!

However, I find the sting of stupid comments is balanced by the folks who do find a connection with my ordinary characters.

My experience with fiction in general is that you can write about things that are unlikely to happen in real life but it works if you write it convincingly enough. For example in one of my stories a spoiled rich girl from New York is made to go camping with her country relatives in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, which she hates. Who is one of the first people she meets? A loud, uncouth, but good-looking Australian guy with a fetish for screwing spoiled rich girls. It is of course unlikely that a spoiled New York girl and a traveller from Melbourne Australia with a fetish for spoiled girls would be at the same New Jersey campground at the same time, but it is still possible.

You can also write about things that cannot happen in real life - time travel, body swaps, fantasy worlds, magic, monsters, ghosts, aliens - as readers will adjust their way of thinking to enjoy the story. It's like musicals, people obviously don't go around dancing and singing in real life, but it doesn't stop you from enjoying musical theatre or movie musicals.

It's when you include completely unrealistic plotlines in real world stories that you come unstuck. For example, say there is a real world story set at a car dealership where an attractive young female saleswoman gets really poor sales figures for the month. As punishment from her boss, she is made to lift her skirt and let all the guys who work at the dealership look down her panties at her pussy, something she does without complaint or question. This scenario pushes believability too far, in reality the girl would have got the fuck out of there. And called the police.