Where to stick it?

[Guest]

This is a story category question.

I'm writing a bi-sex story that places an emphasis on gay male sex, but also has an explicit MF scene. I'm wondering which category to put the story in. Although I don't want to turn anyone off while reading my stories, I'd rather the least amount were if they found (a) certain passage(s) not to their liking.

I really wish there was a category specifically for bisexuality because there are many of us who are oriented as such. How do we make such suggestions to Laurel and Manu?

Thanks.

 

[cloudy]

How do we make such suggestions to Laurel and Manu?

Can't help with the rest, but I can with this.

Send Laurel a PM, not an email. She's very good about answering, too.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

This is a story category question.

I'm writing a bi-sex story that places an emphasis on gay male sex, but also has an explicit MF scene. I'm wondering which category to put the story in. Although I don't want to turn anyone off while reading my stories, I'd rather the least amount were if they found (a) certain passage(s) not to their liking.

I really wish there was a category specifically for bisexuality because there are many of us who are oriented as such. How do we make such suggestions to Laurel and Manu?

Thanks.

Hrmm, very interesting. So you don't have a mmf scene in this story? So it's not group and it has a gay m/m scene so it can't really be erotic couplings? Is there any way you can post it in segments so that the gay part can go in gay and the straight part somewhere else? You could always put it in anal, no one could argue with that.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I hear ya... if you put it into the gay male category, you may get flack about the female in it... if you put it into a m/f category (erotic couplings etc) you may get flack about the gay stuff in it... *sigh*

 

[Stella_Omega]

If you put it in anal, the straight readers will get upset at the gay content

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Honestly I'm thinking "gay"... because they are less likely (I think) to be offended by the straight content than vice versa... straight readers are more, well, straight... and more likely to get their panties in a bunch... but that's just one person's opinion

 

[OhMissScarlett]

If you put it in anal, the straight readers will get upset at the gay content

Sigh. How about a disclaimer then?

Warning: The following contains graphic depictions of man on man buttsex and straight humping. Don't say I didn't warn ya.

 

[NoJo]

If you put it in anal, the straight readers will get upset at the gay content

Besides, Anal readers are really pernickity.

 

[Guest]

There is a need for a bisexuality category and I need Scarlett to write another Hot Buttered story.

 

[Guest]

Hrmm, very interesting. So you don't have a mmf scene in this story? So it's not group and it has a gay m/m scene so it can't really be erotic couplings? Is there any way you can post it in segments so that the gay part can go in gay and the straight part somewhere else? You could always put it in anal, no one could argue with that.

Or maybe I can go back and rewrite the MF scene and not make it so explicit so I can put it in gay male story category?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

There is a need for a bisexuality category and I need Scarlett to write another Hot Buttered story.

Don't you think the incest would offend the bi readers?

You're right though, I've always thought we needed a bi category for the simple reason that it would make it easier for the readers to find bi stories rather than having to sift through the group category to find them.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Or maybe I can go back and rewrite the MF scene and not make it so explicit so I can put it in gay male story category?

Or you could write a mmf three-way so you could put it in group.

 

[Guest]

Besides, Anal readers are really pernickity.

 

[4degrees]

all this talk of offending people who read porn.

i just don't get it. but maybe that is because i haven't found something that offends me. if i get to a scene i'm not into, i just gloss over it and start really reading again when i see the words 'I began to rub my slick cockhead against his tight fuckhole, and pushed forward slightly, beginning to inch my way into his tight heat until my balls were completely flush with his muscular ass.'
or, something to that extent.
neo, you are very concencious to your readers' feelings about your stuff. just one of the ten thousand things i like about you.
yes scarlette, more butter. more incest. please.
stella's disclaimer suggestion was very good. that's what i would opt to do.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Or you could write a mmf three-way so you could put it in group.

that's my vote! just, you know- add MORE sex!

 

[Stella_Omega]

all this talk of offending people who read porn.

i just don't get it. but maybe that is because i haven't found something that offends me. if i get to a scene i'm not into, i just gloss over it and start really reading again when i see the words 'I began to rub my slick cockhead against his tight fuckhole, and pushed forward slightly, beginning to inch my way into his tight heat until my balls were completely flush with his muscular ass.'
or, something to that extent.
neo, you are very concencious to your readers' feelings about your stuff. just one of the ten thousand things i like about you.
yes scarlette, more butter. more incest. please.
stella's disclaimer suggestion was very good. that's what i would opt to do.

the issue is the pissant trolls.

 

[MichelleLovesTo]

Are there Orcs and Hobbits as Well?

the issue is the pissant trolls.

Trolls? There are trolls -- hadn't noticed.

I'd pick one that covers whatever the most controversial aspect is, and go with that. Then I'd preface the story with a non-spoiler-y explanation that the story is really multi-genre and list the other categories.

 

[Guest]

I directed Laurel to this thread, hopefully she'll read it and have something to think about, perhaps even consider adding a bi category. And I will put my story in the category where I originally wanted to, but will put a small disclaimer (which is a shame I have to do that). Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Neo, I totally agree with the need for a bi category and even thought about petitioning Laurel myself when I wrote a similar story. One of my main characters was gay, but he had a three-way with his lover and a female friend; so I ended up putting it in Group. I didn't think it belonged there but without a Bi category I really didn't have any other options.

*ahem*What CHocolate Mousse Can Do

 

[cheerful_deviant]

No matter what cat you post it in you are absolutly guaraneed to offend someone. But I'd suggest posting in gay. While the gay readers may not be thrilled at the straight sex, I would be willing to bet posting gay sex in a straight catagory is like painting a big troll target on your back. You're just begging for a flaming. JMHO

 

[Guest]

*ahem*What CHocolate Mousse Can Do

OoOo Chocolate mousse bi story. Of course, I will read this. Thank you for pointing it out.

 

[Guest]

No matter what cat you post it in you are absolutly guaraneed to offend someone. But I'd suggest posting in gay. While the gay readers may not be thrilled at the straight sex, I would be willing to bet posting gay sex in a straight catagory is like painting a big troll target on your back. You're just begging for a flaming. JMHO

I try not to pay much attention to votes. I've been here at Lit too long and posted enough stories and poetry to get up in that, but still I do get a little annoyed when something I've worked on gets bashed. I just don't visit my author's panel or the The Top lists any more. It has helped relieve the irritation of what trolls do.

Also, very true about offending someone. Someone will always be upset that she was a redhead instead of a blonde, the accent in the dialog wasn't right or the story didn't end the way the reader wanted it to. C'est La Vie.

Literotica needs a bi category, period.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I can't help on the cat, but I do have some good advice for everyone:

Write a short preface for all your stories, which includes the stuff one finds on the inside of the dust jacket of a new novel. Lit's title/description format is too limiting to convey the true nature of a story, and as mentioned the categories here are necessarily quite broad. So make it easy for the readers by giving them some explicit clues right up front. Those who like what you're offering will be encouraged to read on, and those who don't won't waste their time (and maybe dis you with a bad vote or comment in return).

BTW, keep it short - the reader should not have to scroll to see the end of the preface and the beginning of the story.