thebullet
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The Literotica category that generates the most controversy is ‘Loving Wives’. We have a problem because the category can be taken to mean several things.
When a story is submitted in this category which has a cuckolded husband who submits to his cheating wife, this invariably evokes one of two reactions from readers. Either they are all for the husband’s humiliation, or they are adamantly opposed to the concept.
I’ll reveal my personal prejudices. I was in the position many years ago of discovering my wife’s cheating by getting ‘sloppy seconds’ – a most unpleasant experience, let me assure you. (She was too drunk and/or too stupid to hide her infidelity.) My response was to throw the bitch out.
Okay, so I have a very visceral personal reaction to the ‘cheating wife/wimp husband’ genre. That has nothing to do with the quality of the writing, the logic of the storyline, or the fullness of the characterizations drawn in a story. When I come across such a story, I never vote on it. It would be unfair to the author for me to weigh her down with my gut reaction to her story.
It seems to me that we have voting that is in essence rejecting the entire genre rather than the particular story, not just in the ‘Loving Wives’ category. As Harry Truman said, ‘if you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen’.
I avoid several of the genres like the plague. I’ve never been in the BDSM section, or in the incest section, or in the gay section, or in the fetish section. I’ll admit I’m guy enough to occasionally peruse the lesbian section. I sometimes hang around the non-English section, just trying to figure out what those words mean. (Can you say ‘pussy’ in Hindi?)
I wrote a non-consent story a while back and got a few emails that threatened my livelihood. I’m like, ‘Hey, babe, if you don’t like rape fantasies, then DON’T READ rape fantasies’. And mine was a mild one.
If a reader is uncomfortable with a certain kind of erotica, then the reader should avoid that kind of erotica. It isn’t fair to the authors who write for those categories and obviously have an audience who wishes to read these stories. Their scores are lower only because the reader doesn’t like the genre. How fair is that?
Finally, why doesn’t Literotica split the ‘loving wives’ category in two, creating a new section just for the wimp husbands among us who like to wallow in their own humiliation, leaving ‘loving wives’ for wives who actually are loving.
When a story is submitted in this category which has a cuckolded husband who submits to his cheating wife, this invariably evokes one of two reactions from readers. Either they are all for the husband’s humiliation, or they are adamantly opposed to the concept.
I’ll reveal my personal prejudices. I was in the position many years ago of discovering my wife’s cheating by getting ‘sloppy seconds’ – a most unpleasant experience, let me assure you. (She was too drunk and/or too stupid to hide her infidelity.) My response was to throw the bitch out.
Okay, so I have a very visceral personal reaction to the ‘cheating wife/wimp husband’ genre. That has nothing to do with the quality of the writing, the logic of the storyline, or the fullness of the characterizations drawn in a story. When I come across such a story, I never vote on it. It would be unfair to the author for me to weigh her down with my gut reaction to her story.
It seems to me that we have voting that is in essence rejecting the entire genre rather than the particular story, not just in the ‘Loving Wives’ category. As Harry Truman said, ‘if you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen’.
I avoid several of the genres like the plague. I’ve never been in the BDSM section, or in the incest section, or in the gay section, or in the fetish section. I’ll admit I’m guy enough to occasionally peruse the lesbian section. I sometimes hang around the non-English section, just trying to figure out what those words mean. (Can you say ‘pussy’ in Hindi?)
I wrote a non-consent story a while back and got a few emails that threatened my livelihood. I’m like, ‘Hey, babe, if you don’t like rape fantasies, then DON’T READ rape fantasies’. And mine was a mild one.
If a reader is uncomfortable with a certain kind of erotica, then the reader should avoid that kind of erotica. It isn’t fair to the authors who write for those categories and obviously have an audience who wishes to read these stories. Their scores are lower only because the reader doesn’t like the genre. How fair is that?
Finally, why doesn’t Literotica split the ‘loving wives’ category in two, creating a new section just for the wimp husbands among us who like to wallow in their own humiliation, leaving ‘loving wives’ for wives who actually are loving.