General Story Guidelines.

[Enkil]

Due to some problematic previous posts, and a few instances of trial-by-media I thought it wise to post a general guide to community stories.
( For a general overview of a simple story writing process if you want to make the attempt there is a short guide here: https://www.wetandmessy.org/sguncate...1-how-to-write )

1. If you are reposting an older story, it is probably fine if it is has only ever been posted here or on public groups and has no copyright/publisher particularly if it is your own work, but regardless give credit to whoever wrote it and possibly where you got it from/originally posted. If copyright is in question, then write a summary as a hook instead, and link to the original. Where the original is no longer available, try the way back machine website.
2. AI content: We can't pretend AI does not exist, and members have asked about this before. I would suggest that you only use AI to fine tune, translate, proofread or come up with the initial framework for your story. Then with that as your starting point, go over the story yourself, rewrite anything that sounds odd, and build on that with your own ideas or fantasys to fill out the story more. Chances are if you generated a story with AI you did several and only certain ones actually appealed to you. Read them again. Elaborate further on things that are only really skipped over by the AI narrative.This is especially true of AI, if you manage to even get it to write fetish fiction, its guardrails will still stop it going into the Juicy (wet) details we most enjoy. Give it flavour, give is soul. If you struggle with creative writing, instead of letting AI do all the work, maybe pick a few things you liked from several different stories you generated but rejected then incorporate them in your own words into the one story, with characters/venues corrected to match.; Then take a break, have a coffee, then read it again and fix what you missed the first time around. Break it into easier to read paragraphs, and if any ideas tickle your imagination as you read it back - add them in too. Then post when it feels "complete" instead of "Generated"
3. AI content (continued): The reason for point 2, is it is becoming more and more common that AI content is discovered to be inspired, or a direct plagerism of published material from other authors in its dataset with enough changed to look original. For example, imagine it used some obscure non-erotic work then added golden showers to it. If the organisation that wrote the original found your AI version, perhaps they are some lobby group, it might anger them. Your work needs to be clearly derivitive; parody or satire enough to qualify for fair use/free speech to avoid legal,political or lobbying implications. Like AI writing tools, AI analysis tools too exist which can expose what the AI used as its source for creative work; and fingerprinting tools can also identify if it is AI work. (For example youtube content ID is one such) However if you write it yourself, you will know what inspired it, and add a disclaimer as such on posting. Sometimes saying "inspired by" is enough if it is entirely creative work. Something AI will not do. It will simply pass off some work as its own, slightly transformed, and you will never see the lawyers coming. Likewise AI lacks a clear understanding of sexuality and fantasy, or social taboos. You already have it writing fetish, it wont understand what its boundaries are. We had to remove some AI stories in the past, which when we actually managed to figure out what it was actually trying to write about, it ended up coming off sounding rather disturbing, and may have been describing underage characters. This is your story it should be what gets you excited, not what the AI says should get you excited.
4. Social Taboos. I mean sure these make great topics to write about, but be mindful that some nations have literally started burning books and placing charges on authors who wrote a story about certain "topic of the week" taboos. Where before you only had to worry about writing stories critical of extremist nations if you lived there; it seems even western nations have started picking up bad habits and punishing writers for writing fiction previously considered free speech. Never underestimate the lunacy of your home regime.
5. The age of your characters. Formative experiences often happen when young. You just can't write about it now. A pitfall to avoid when writing erotica is; if you must include their childhood, it should be brief, non sexual and anything interesting should only happen to the adults. Otherwise (In Australia and possibly UK/Canada) it is treated as a "grooming instument" now. Whatever that is. Non Erotic characters can probably be set dressing at any age, but the two should not interact in any intimate way. For example you could have screaming kids running around a fun park in your intro, but ultimately when your main character has an accident queueing at a bathroom, they should be an adult, and only adults see it happen. Sure the kids could make fun of them, but that puts it into a grey zone now. Sounds silly, but that is the world we live in now.
6. Depictions of violence or assault. Use common sense here. A girl asking a guy they like to erotically spank them, or a guy letting his lover soil themselves is probably fine. A crazed character (sex bot, barbarian, evil villain) pillaging and killing women and children probably not a good idea except in the most abstract sense. ("When they returned, the town was just gone. Nothing but ashes..", "the ship exploded" etc etc)
7. Consent. If possible try to learn ways to describe at the very least exploring "implied consent". Essentially any erotic encounters should seem a natural progression of the story, and not feel forced or jarring. Even Japanese art has been banned in the west for something as simple as a "mind control" plot, which might imply a lack of consent. (Japanese consent culture as a whole is a grey zone, since they take a more pragmatic view of these things; and culturally women are meant to hide the fact they are enjoying themselves, which in western culture makes it a crime. A japanese themed story should clearly be identified as such, as sex fetish culture in Japan tends to fall along the lines of "she cant enjoy herself unless she pretends she isnt" which is a hard pill to swallow when you are not Japanese since it seems kind of insane.)
8. Not mandetory, but internet etiquette for erotic fiction in the past usually recommended having at least a basic summary of the themes explored in the story. Typically using "summary codes" (like MF/MMF/FFM/FF/MM/GS/AB/SCAT/ORAL/WS) or just a quick intro statement (Eg. A story about a leaky women who likes to be called a good girl for being a bad girl) to make it easier for people to find things that appeal to them.