It has been mentioned a couple of times about keeping it above 18 so have done some quick research.

I have taken a few countries at random and found that in the UK & Canada the age of consent is 16, Australia varies between 16 & 17 and a quick google search shows that each US state has set its age of consent at either age 16, age 17, or age 18.

Therefore it would seem that 16 is the lower bar, below which pretty much no story can go but there is a grey area between 16 > 18.

I accept that every site has its own rules, (I write for one site where bestiality is a 'no no' but incest is fine and another site where bestiality is compulsory for a story to be allowed yet incest will get you a ban) but are there a set of laid down rules for this site?

 

I would rather stay to the high side of the age of consent thus leaving no question of my intentions, there is no need beyond first times and lost virginity stories to make the characters in your story any younger than 18 years old. I understand people want every right legally, but I also try to think about being morally right. Think of it this way, how much different is a 16 year old and an 18 year old sexually. I'm thinking not much. Thats my opinion.

 

Since I don't know where you live, I agree with your perception that the difference between a 16 y/o and an 18y/o can't be much. I do realize that since this is a worldwide website rules in different countries have different age minimums. I too strive to keep all my characters above the age of 18. As I see it, there's really no reason to have one's work scrutinized and potentially put one's self in a legal turmoil. If I do not specifically state an age, I strive to make as vague a reference as possible saying something like, "her youthful appearance made her seem much younger than she was" thus putting the onus on the reader to decide the age. BTW, I looked up the legalities of where I live (Florida, USA) and it says that the age of consent is 16 as long as the male is not older than 24. Anything under 16 falls into the statutory rape category, as well as the partner being over 24.

 

Agreed!

 

Great comments but I am still wondering if there any 'actual' rules written down as I can't find them.

 

I spend a lot of time writing from perspectives that aren't mine. My first story was from the perspective of a kid that had anxiety, and another character the anger-prone victim of childhood abuse thanks to his father. Neither of these things resemble my real-world self, but they resemble some troubles my friends have come across, and I think that's at the heart of it - The uniqueness of characters is understanding what makes them their own people instead of even thinking "Okay, I shouldn't be writing from my perspective" in the first place. It's a little bit like method acting. Every character I write, I make sure to know their motivations first and go from there. Not their personality traits or the way they talk, but their motivations. Never their sexual ones either. (For reference, from my short piece Amy's Fantasy, Amy's motivation was to establish that she was her own person and wouldn't be held down by how others viewed her, and Alex's motivation was to make others like him as much as he liked them.)

I also think the author's voice filtering through is inevitable to some degree. To reiterate though, knowing a character's motivations and goals is ten times as likely to help, at least in my case, to make a character unique than to know personality traits or sexual preferences.

 

I also can't agree with TCS on the subject of minors. Part of why I enjoy writing about sex is how it interacts with the story. When one is young, sex is dramatic and precious and most importantly, consequential. Sex has a different value in high school as opposed to, say, university. I don't write sex between high schoolers to condone the action (quite the opposite - Being More Social was more of a cautionary tale about teen sex) but making a plot around sex in high school is fundamentally different to any other stage of maturity. Some people have asked me to change Being More Social to make it take place in college with the protagonist's parents being housemates instead, but that ruins character dynamics, the now-weirdly high value the characters place on sex, and the sudden drop in maturity. If I did that, people would then ask why my characters are acting so immaturely.

Sure, there is no 'need' to write characters under 18. There's also no 'need' to put sex in our stories at all. I'm a teacher of minors in my every day life, and I say that with no shame. I am not attracted to any minors at all, and actually look at the way they see sex with some kind of disdain. I write these stories because that's how these characters interact, and it's what the characters in my head, who happen to be minors, do. I see no moral badness to what I do. It doesn't affect my real-world life and it tells a story that, unless I'm worse than I thought, carries emotional weight using the sex as more than an obligatory sex scene material.

 

Under the 'rules' section they do have a very vague rule...…"#5 Texts featuring pedophilia are forbidden" AND two rules later "#7 The owners, administrators, and moderators of the XNXX Forum reserve the right to delete, move, or close any thread at any time for any reason."...…In my humble opinion, it gives them cart blanche to interpret as they see fit. Our colleague BashfulScribe once said in a recent post that he has seen the enforcement of the rules be strict one year and very loose another year, depending on the administration. With that all said, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that we know where the line in the sand is and it is up to us to stay on the proper side of it.

 

Have read the "rules" section and must admit thought that only applied to the forums, but can see it could also apply to the stories side as well.

It is indeed very vague and seems to be that if you fall foul of what ever a particular moderator's interpretation is of that rule then you will get banned, yet another moderator could well let something go through.

The reason I asked the question is that I was 16 when I ran away from home, not 18. At 16 I was Miss "I fucking know everything" which by the time I reached 18 had been well and literally knocked out of me.

 

I guess we will all decide on our own and agree to disagree. Thing is we are already judged on our story in every other way. Maybe tempting fate with the moderators is fighting a fight that is unnecessary. So again that is just my opinion.

 

I've read the stories on both this forum and the sex stories website for quite a while although I've never written anything for either side ever in my life - mostly because I've been too afraid to. I read a lot of dark fiction, Stephen King and of the likes, and they have a quite dark sense of writing. As do I. I've seen the tags on the sex stories website (murder, monster, necrophilia, etc) but I am quite curious what the line is drawn here. Like how far is too far? How dark is too dark? Is the line drawn at say human trafficking (all characters of age ofc)? Or is there even a line if all the characters are above age?

It's always been something I've been curious about.

 

Let me say I've read many stories here and have only once read a snuff porn story. It was really light up till the end. So I wouldn't know how to answer that question. But that being said, I don't see why murder in words is any different than murder on the screen. Course you could message Stanley the moderator and get his opinion.

 

I think like my earlier discussions around age it could well fall to the interpretation of the moderators., as @PABLO DIABLO mentions above rule 7 seems to be a catch all.

On a personal front it's not a genre I write in so death or violence will only be included in my stories where it's part of the story rather than the story itself.

I agree with @Tcs1963 and if it was me I would storyboard it then drop the mod a line to see what reaction you get.

 

Hello, fellow writers. Forgive me if my question is out of place and should be directed elsewhere, but I'm having some difficulties posting my stories to the site and would appreciate some direction from veterans of this forum.
Regarding the time it takes for a posted story to appear publicly: the next chapter of my story remains visible only to me, despite displaying a posting time of nearly 16 hours ago. It appears to be in edit-only mode. The first story I posted took significantly less time to appear on the site.
So my question is this: is there a set period of time required for posted stories to appear publicly, or is it dependent on the length of the story or the hour of upload? Is each story approved individually before being accessible to the public? And if so, is there a way to expedite the process to allow for more regular posting?

Thank you,
Eupatrid

 

If I may offer some assistance. It has been my experience that it can take up to 72 hours for something to appear as published. I have found that if you try to publish on Friday night, anytime on Saturday or anytime on Sunday it usually won't get posted until sometime Monday. Also, please try to remember that this is a worldwide website and thus, they get inundated at times with stories waiting to be published. Since I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, it has been my experience that the peak posting times run from 1am until about 9am EST. If I set the story into ready for publishing in that time period, I generally see my story posted quickly. I hope this helps.......Paul.

 

Thanks, Paul. I'll keep that in mind! It's good to know there isn't some larger issue slowing things down; I'm just being impatient, haha.

 

No worries, we're all a little impatient on this site from time to time. When you finish a piece and publish it the anticipation can kill.

 

Also, I had a community question for everyone here - whenever you're reading a sex story, is there a word or phrase you can't stand? Me personally, I cannot stand the word 'cunny.' It makes me want to stop reading erotica forever. It honestly baffles me that anyone in the world can find that word sexy at all.