I’m writing a story featuring a family man with a wife and a 16-year-old son and an 18-year-old daughter. After getting sacked from his job, the husband takes part in medical trails with a pharmaceutical company to test a new Alzheimer’s drug. When he gets home he finds he has a range of psi abilities including telekinesis, telepathy and mind control and uses his abilities to get the family to do certain naughty things.
Does this go in mind control category or incest?
Any story with incestuous elements to the plot must go into the Incest category regardless of any other categories that might seem more suitable.
Thanks, Liz. I actually have a related question, if you have the time. With all the new categories being added (and some of the debate forming around certain ones), are there other topics and content which need to be herded into their own sections. For example, would something that includes an intelligent monster/mythological creature have to go in the monster sex category, if there were other valid options? Or, the story that DonnaDreams is talking about - would it need to go into the mind control if it was not incest related?
I am just curious where we are drawing these sorts of lines anymore, and if there is a hierarchy of categories we need to be aware of. Thanks for your thoughts as always!
Thanks. I scrolled down and got the age question answered, but thanks again. And, to tell the truth, I don't know anything about the announcement section. No excuse for ignorance, huh? I think I'll stick to those categories I feel safe in.
It's legal to write sex stories about people of any age. It's just on sex websites, site owners set the limit to what they want. If the site owner is English, she'd set it at 16 because the age of sexual consent is 16 in England. 18 is too high. Anything under 16 will most likely put most people off.
There's always a hierarchy, if you want to target the right readers.
Rule #1 is Lush specific. As said, any close-blood relations having relations goes into I.F.
Rule #2 is the rule of Most Squick. If there are two or more dominant themes, go with the category that's most likely to make other readers cringe. The people in the edgier category aren't going to mind the more vanilla aspects, so long as they get their kink. The people in mainstream categories may run screaming the moment they come across watersports, bondage, etc.
Rule #3 is the rule of NIMBY. People looking for Gay Male or Lesbian stories don't want to read hetero couplings, and may even be squicked by it. The reverse also holds true — though more or less only for GM. You can get away with girl-girl most anywhere, but two guys getting it on is not going to go over well unless it's in a category where it's reasonably expected. Thanks to the bisexual category, there's a home for those crossovers where hetero and same sex couplings can happily mingle.
Rule #4 is the rule of Many Eyes. If there are two equal, relatively vanilla themes, go with the one that generates the most traffic. Use your Columbo-like research skills to see which category garners the most votes and comments overall.