It wouldn't have been for using the word "college." I often manage to float a story using that rather than a specific age. There must have been something else in the story suggesting sex activity at less than eighteen.
That's basically what it was despite the existance of college, since saying anything college could be used to skirt rules.
I'm not censoring it, no. The word k**s (miscounted my letters before) appeared in the text as published several times including in the first sentence. I don't know for sure that the site didn't change it, but I'd be amazed if they had. Most likely the poster got the story kicked back for something else and went overkill for the changes, or else was just over-cautious. I'll have to see if I can find it again when I have a moment.
I'd be astonished if the site changed anything. I've only ever seen the site add a content warning if something is posted outside a more usual category (like incest as a sub-theme, for example). Publishing 'k**s' is a fairly daft way to "trick" a word bot, I'd say.
Well my women’s college story finally got approved!
That won't cause any problems. The kids are not around any sexual activity and you make it clear by stating they are at Grandma's.
I'd add a note to the editor, stating exactly that. A word bot could easily trigger on the age reference, so you head it off at the pass. I've got a story with a kid in a push-chair and a breast-feeding scene in a cafe, no problems with that at all.
