Trying to find the right category.

[UnexpectedLuggage]

I have a story idea, but I'm not sure what category it would fall under. It involves a guy sleeping with his sisters on law on a bet, more or less (don't wanna spoil too much!).

Would you think this fits better in the incest/taboo category, or the erotic couplings?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

It depends on the story you write. It could be in Humor & Satire, if you wrote it to be funny.

-Rocco

 

[BlazonG]

I could see sister in law as taboo, but I don’t think that’s what the I/T readers really want. It could be ‘loving wives’ if the husband is aware of the bet and lets it happen. Or erotic couplings if you don’t make it fit anything else.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

I could see sister in law as taboo, but I don’t think that’s what the I/T readers really want. It could be ‘loving wives’ if the husband is aware of the bet and lets it happen. Or erotic couplings if you don’t make it fit anything else.

Hadn't considered the Loving Wives category.

I sort of wondered about the I/T crowd. It seems that's more fitting for parent-child and actual blood relations type stuff.

 

[NotWise]

You'd probably do OK in I/T. I just checked the tags, and there are three pages of stories in I/T tagged with "sister in law." One of those might be mine. It's my lowest-score story, but the low score is because it's also my shortest story, not because the I/T readers hated it. I'd make it clear in the title or short description that it is an in-law story.

I scrolled through the list of sister-in-law stories and without adding things up it looks like a little under half of the stories are rated 4.5 or better.

You might look at that list yourself to get an idea of what to expect.

 

[RejectReality]

In-law doesn't get quite the backlash in other categories as full incest or step. It's absolutely a rung down on the preferred couplings ladder from step in Incest.

It depends upon how much you've played up the relationship. The more you've leaned into that, the better the response in Incest and the worse response you'll get anywhere else.

If one of those sisters-in-law is the one who married his relative, you also have the cheating angle, which can sometimes attract scorn. That's something to be aware of and prepared for regardless of where you put it.

It fits the description of Incest on the face, and it will absolutely get opened more often there, even if plainly marked as in-law in the title/description. So if you're in toss-up territory, go for Incest and simply be prepared for perhaps a "blah" response. "Blah" in Incest is more than half the categories can muster on their best day. So long as you don't have any dubious consent, it will probably do numbers there at least as good as elsewhere even with light emphasis on the familial relationship.

That being said, I've got one in Fetish ( pregnancy kink ) with a sister-in-law, cheating, and a fairly strong familial relationship that's performed gangbusters. ( #12 viewed, #14 favorited of my catalog ) So the right balance in the right category can do Incest-level numbers.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I have a story involving a man sleeping with his wifes stepmom. Not being blood relations, I tried submitting it in Mature.
Laurel put it in I/T.

A SIL is taboo enough that she might do the same to you so you might as well just go with it.

 

[StillStunned]

Add some bum stuff and put it in Anal.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Add some bum stuff and put it in Anal.

Make the SIL a trans woman and put it in T/CD.

 

[StillStunned]

Make the SIL a trans woman and put it in T/CD.

See? There's always an easy solution.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

One of the best references for this sort of question has always been Tx Tall Tales’ Love Your Readers. Worth bookmarking.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

As a few have alluded to with their sometimes joking comments, it makes more sense to focus on the overall theme of the story rather than merely the relationship of characters when selecting a category for the story.

It could be the first time for one or both characters. One or both could be mature, trans, or be involved in any number of fetishes that would point to a different category than I/T. Hell, one could be a celebrity or secretly an alien visiting our planet in the form of the relative.

I think I've made my point...

 

[OffNSFW]

What's the fantasy that this story appeals to, and which category will best help them to find it?

And if that category is Loving Wives, do you have a thick skin and/or a humiliation fetish?

 

[TheLobster]

Make the SIL a trans woman and put it in T/CD.

Move the plot to another planet and put it in SF&F.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

What's the fantasy that this story appeals to, and which category will best help them to find it?

Long and short of it, without giving away too much, is that a guy and his two sisters in law are made an offer to sleep together that's too good to turn down. So they all agree and proceed to hook up.

Nothing super crazy, just three adults doing something they never would outside this specific scenario.

 

[StillStunned]

Group?

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

Group?

Oh, right! For some reason forgot that one exists.