The Ten Commandments

[flawed_ethics]

Had the thought recently of crafting short stories of erotica dealing with The Ten Commandments. Others have done similar things, and I'm doubtful I'm the first to take a crack at it. Still, the idea has merit, IMHO.

While I have ideas on how to pervert the some of the commandments, not all of them make for great storytelling. In a saucy sense, anyways. The two I'm struggling the most with are Thou Shall Not Take the Lord's Name in Vain and Thou Shall Not Steal.

One could be lazy and make a story where the sexual participants are saying "OMG" and "Fucking God!" and "Jesus Christ!" during their carnal acts. Something is missing though. Degrading God's name just for the sake of it feels adrift too. Maybe an anarchist/Satanist type takes a lover and has them denounce god as they fuck? It would need to be well done though.

Kleptomania strikes me as a hard thing to make sexy. The best I can think of is two college roommates. One plain Jane, the other more fashionable. Over time the plain Jane 'borrows' her roommates clothes and even her attitude. As the story progresses, and the fashionable woman becomes stripped of her persona, our plain Jane goes on to steal her friends and boyfriend. By the end of the story, our thief is living high on the hog while the other struggles to put her life back together. Too 'Single White Female' for me though, and far too underbaked.

Thoughts/Suggestions? Curious to read if anyone else has any takes on the idea.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Stealing a woman’s purse leaves her very vulnerable, leading to, for instance, having to share a hotel room or train berth. Whooopie ensues.

Her office has a gym for employees. Somebody steals her bra while she’s in the shower, leaving her with only a thin blouse. (If you’re in a frisky mood, a great thief might manage to steal her bra while she’s wearing it.) Embarrassed, she…

Her diary, full of her deepest emotions and darkest desires, is stolen. The thief reads it and…

 

[NakedNymph]

I think the problem is that you're thinking about very basic denial of those supposed rules, instead of actually subverting them. If the story is supposed to pervert "Thou shalt not steal" but the lesson is something like "Stealing is good and can lead to fun sexy times", it will feel a little shallow because it's not actually engaging with the idea of not stealing.

So for "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain", one idea I can think of is a BDSM story where the safe word is God. That way, saying it is very much not in vain (in context). I don't like sadistic stories with huge power imbalances, so I'd probably instead do something like two switches who are lovers or dating or married or whatever, and they're playing this game where they each have, like, 10 minutes to try to get the other person to say it, and then they trade off. The punchline can be that they fuck and cum together and say it out of habit at the same time, so it's a draw. Not gonna lie, now that I've mapped this out, I kind of want to try this out with someone, it could be really funny.

For "Thou shalt not steal", as an exhibitionist, that's something I find really interesting. The thrill of shoplifting without getting caught is probably not that different from the thrill of getting naked in a public place and not getting caught, just with a sexual dimension. Professional robbers, when they case a place, are all about not being caught during the robbery, and not being noticed before and after. I suspect that a thief who's really good at not getting caught would also make for a really good exhibitionist who doesn't get caught.

Another idea would be exhibitionist grocery shopping. Let's say I'm walking around the store in just a light summer dress, and nobody's around. So I go around grabbing things ... a cucumber, an eggplant, you see where I'm going with this. So I get naked, fuck myself silly with them, and then go pay for the food. It's not stealing, then.

Or exhibitionist clothes shopping. No, exhibitionist thrifting! Let's just say it's a quiet day, no one's around but the cashier, who's in the back when I walk in, and let's say there's a donations box. I get naked and donate all my clothes, and sneak around the store grabbing new ones. Then, when I go to leave, their security detects stolen items, but the cashier can't find any on me ... until I show them the tags on everything I'm wearing, and I slowly strip naked for them...

Excuse me, I'm going to go apologize to my chair cushion now.

 

[Magineer]

Kleptomania, IF your idea is to write a short on the general subject of each of the Commandments' specified sins, would be one of the easiest in point of fact. I've already done one on it using the fairly hackneyed 'impoverished student turns to prostitution' theme but then adding the element of stealing from the jewellery drawers of her clients' wives.

Plenty of other possibilities, I'm sure. That's just one simple example.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

For a fantasy, calling out a Diety during orgasm might lead to intriguing results, especially depending on which one - or ones! - react. In a mundane world with no active, directly observable deities romping around, it would key on participant and audience reaction. The religious strip-club bouncer offended by the john’s “Oh my god!" , the neighbor or peeping Tom reacting strongly to an orgasmic "Jeeeeeeezus!", etcetera.

Theft seems to me to vary wildly based on who’s stealing what - the power relationship, items coveted, how the theft occurs, why each side of the equation’s involved, etc. Simple answer is a kink - stealing undies or sex toys, perhaps. More complex might be the cascade of events from a seemingly simple theft - the whole ‘for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost’ thing.

For a twist, have a guy driving around scoping out laundry drying on lines or in laundromats to steal, only to find it’s bait for someone stealing cars. Reversal can play well, done right.

 

[alohadave]

The two I'm struggling the most with are Thou Shall Not Take the Lord's Name in Vain and Thou Shall Not Steal.

Thou Shalt Not Kill doesn't present problems?

 

[sirhugs]

"Thou Shall not steal", as priot posters pointed out, ought to be simple- the thief, caught, is blackmailed into sexy times...

"...God's Name in vain..." might be a bit tougher. How about as a training mewchanism. He (Dad? Husband? Boss? Prof?) puts out a condom jar. Each time the foul mouthed she takes the
Lord's name in vain, she must put a condom in the jar. Each sunday, after church,he gets to use each condom to fuck her, each one being used in a different way...

 

[CuttingEdge]

I have an ex-wife that had a foul mouth... but only in bed. A very hardened church-goer, she would never say a bad word ever... unless she orgasmed. Then... oh my goodness would she ever lose control and scream out the longest string of foul words ever to come out of a lady's lips in the midst of orgasming. It was really funny, an I could rate my sex-skills based on the foul-words produced. If I heard Fuckkkkkkkkkkkk... I knew I did pretty well for her that night.

 

[shakna]

Jesus and the variants of the name are actually pretty common as first names in South American nations. That gives you all the excuse in the world to yell it nice and loud during sexual antics.

 

[Carnevil9]

This makes me think of the film Se7en, where a serial killer has seven victims, each killed in a manner depicting one of the seven deadly sins. You could do something similar, only based on the ten commandments. Murders aren't terribly sexy, though, so maybe switch it to a serial seducer. Maybe set in a sorority, or better yet, a convent!

 

[gunhilltrain]

This makes me think of the film Se7en, where a serial killer has seven victims, each killed in a manner depicting one of the seven deadly sins. You could do something similar, only based on the ten commandments. Murders aren't terribly sexy, though, so maybe switch it to a serial seducer. Maybe set in a sorority, or better yet, a convent!

That's the movie I thought of too. Except, most of the seven transgressions weren't erotic that I remember. Doing the Ten Commandments on Lit is more of a challenge, although CuttingEdge above came up with good take on one of them. I wonder why she's an ex-wife? There is a potential story there however.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Had the thought recently of crafting short stories of erotica dealing with The Ten Commandments. Others have done similar things, and I'm doubtful I'm the first to take a crack at it. Still, the idea has merit, IMHO.

While I have ideas on how to pervert the some of the commandments, not all of them make for great storytelling. In a saucy sense, anyways. The two I'm struggling the most with are Thou Shall Not Take the Lord's Name in Vain and Thou Shall Not Steal.

One could be lazy and make a story where the sexual participants are saying "OMG" and "Fucking God!" and "Jesus Christ!" during their carnal acts. Something is missing though. Degrading God's name just for the sake of it feels adrift too. Maybe an anarchist/Satanist type takes a lover and has them denounce god as they fuck? It would need to be well done though.

Kleptomania strikes me as a hard thing to make sexy. The best I can think of is two college roommates. One plain Jane, the other more fashionable. Over time the plain Jane 'borrows' her roommates clothes and even her attitude. As the story progresses, and the fashionable woman becomes stripped of her persona, our plain Jane goes on to steal her friends and boyfriend. By the end of the story, our thief is living high on the hog while the other struggles to put her life back together. Too 'Single White Female' for me though, and far too underbaked.

Thoughts/Suggestions? Curious to read if anyone else has any takes on the idea.

What kind of theme are you going for in the stories, as that would significantly change the story. Light, funny and erotic? Perversely erotic? Dark and erotic?

 

[MayorReynolds]

Thou Shalt Not Kill doesn't present problems?

Innocence.

"Killing" innocence can be a form of "thou shalt not murder" in this case.

It sounds dark, but it doesn't have to be. What if it's a couple that has a very active and hardcore sex life. She was a good girl before they got together. She didn't think about sex often, and when she did, it was just a passing thought. Now she's in touch with her sexual desires in a way she never would have been otherwise. Maybe she shares an apartment with him and they are almost naked at home. As she's straddling his face, rubbing her wet cunt against it to get out her first climax of the evening, she says to him,

"You did this to me. You made me bad."

Laughing.