Empowering women ideas

[ChuckWolf]

The female protagonist could get ideas on revving up her sex life by joining in a group activity with female friends like pole-dancing classes, sex-toy parties or going to a male strip club and that sparks up some erotic fantasies that motivates her to take the initiative and explore these by herself and/or with her partner.

Another idea is that, for whatever reason (jealousy, curiosity, etc.), she goes through her partner's browser history to see what he or she is into and maybe that leads her down the rabbit hole of her own unexplored fantasies and eventually she confronts her partner with the idea of exploring their (mutual?) fantasies together.

 

[MiaBabe23]

I’ve been rewatching Scandal (from Grey’s Anatomy and Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes, so you know it’s sexually charged), and the main character, Olivia Pope played by Kerri Washington, seems like a prime example of an empowered (if not perfect) woman. She runs a Washington DC team of “fixers” (most with law degrees, some with secret agent experience) who solve problems, often taking on high-powered government officials a shadowy secret agency, murderers and terrorists.

More relevant to the question posed in this thread, she is powerful both inside the bedroom and out. She pulls strings in DC, she values her own time, she sets boundaries, she is pursued by the most powerful man on the planet, and instead of being at his beck and call or waiting around at home alone for him, she explores other options and demands that he EARN her.

That’s a great vibe, yes - love that last point!

 

[BellaBestia]

Female empowerment that has nothing to do with sexual gratification of a man nor the trappings that only serves to feed the male gaze. What does she want? How goes she about getting it and once she’s had it and is no longer dissatisfied how does she either continue getting it or move on to the next. Not a mere reversal of gender roles nor inversion of stereotypes, by dint of her being female her experiences and desires and modus operandi are completely different from a man’s.

 

[Kadyia]

She’s a big-shot CEO from the big city. He’s a Christmas tree farmer/vendor in a small town. When she gets stranded, their worlds collide.

This sounds like a sexy Hallmark movie.

I hate to admit it, but I get into the Hallmark Movie mode once or twice a year. My women empowered version:

Title: "CEO Swiped Right"

You-Go-Girl inherits her late father's struggling company and moves back to the West Coast. She wants to innovate and lead, but the all-male board wants her ex-fiancé, Mr. Hot-As-Fuck, as CEO instead.

Unknown to You-Go-Girl, when she receives a text from a Jack from the West Coast, it's actually from Mr. Hot-As-Fuck, her supposed rival. Misunderstanding, she sexts back, leading to an exciting secret sexting affair with him. Mr. Hot-As-Fuck supports her business ideas and they develop feelings in-person too, though You-Go-Girl feels guilty thinking she's still with her ex, Mr. Second-Best.

You-Go-Girl and Mr. Hot-As-Fuck finally have great, explosive sex together and she discovers after that the sexting wasn't with Mr. Second-Best at all, but Mr. Hot-As-Fuck all along. Her fault for dating guys with the same first name.

Despite the board's coup attempt, You-Go-Girl's company saves itself with her ideas. Mr. Hot-As-Fuck becomes the VP and they form a new board together. Mr. Second-Best says he can't do long distance. You-Go-Girl asks who he even is.

 

[GlennJenko]

I hate to admit it, but I get into the Hallmark Movie mode once or twice a year. My women empowered version:

Title: "CEO Swiped Right"

You-Go-Girl inherits her late father's struggling company and moves back to the West Coast. She wants to innovate and lead, but the all-male board wants her ex-fiancé, Mr. Hot-As-Fuck, as CEO instead.

Unknown to You-Go-Girl, when she receives a text from a Jack from the West Coast, it's actually from Mr. Hot-As-Fuck, her supposed rival. Misunderstanding, she sexts back, leading to an exciting secret sexting affair with him. Mr. Hot-As-Fuck supports her business ideas and they develop feelings in-person too, though You-Go-Girl feels guilty thinking she's still with her ex, Mr. Second-Best.

You-Go-Girl and Mr. Hot-As-Fuck finally have great, explosive sex together and she discovers after that the sexting wasn't with Mr. Second-Best at all, but Mr. Hot-As-Fuck all along. Her fault for dating guys with the same first name.

Despite the board's coup attempt, You-Go-Girl's company saves itself with her ideas. Mr. Hot-As-Fuck becomes the VP and they form a new board together. Mr. Second-Best says he can't do long distance. You-Go-Girl asks who he even is.

That's honestly such a good, hot idea. And gives the opportunity for some great "private discussions" in offices and boardrooms between You-Go-Girl and Mr Hot-As-Fuck. Though if he's the ex-fiancé, you'd have to grapple with why they originally broke up.

 

[forgotmyantidepressants]

I like stories about feminine women who use their "femininity" to get what they want. I struggle with "role reversals" because I hate the idea that femininity is weak. But that's just a personal preference. It's important to have "boss bitch" characters too...

... maybe a story about a woman who takes charge of her sexuality. Leaves her cold-fish husband and searches for a man who will treat her with respect and give her what she wants in bed.

 

[Jacques_Corbin]

I had the craziest idea for a scifi story. I guess I have listened to too many narrated HFY stories. The premise is basically that a human female scientist has conducts an experiment in the fringes of human space, and successfully creates a star. Next she gets to making 2 or three planets, like in Titan AE with that ship, and various asteroids and other space debris.

The thing is, this creates a problem, because all these ships start dropping out of FTL, because their computers detected the star, which was never there before. The area was a highly trafficked route for FTL travel because it was a stretch of empty space, which has been used by numerous space-faring species well before humanity journeyed to the stars. Various alien organizations cry foul. They state that she is an impediment to galactic trade and travel, and cite a treaty that allows for FTL travel through the territory of undersigned species.

She points out that humanity never signed that treaty, and this is human space. Get off her lawn! She also points out that despite all the wars, weapons research, and various other acts of destruction, that she has managed to create something on an unprecedented scale. She has essentially made planetary conquest obsolete. Now, instead of humanity going out to find more territory to colonize, she has made a new star, and will have 3 habitable planets finished in about 5 earth years. Everyone else having to either find another FTL corridor, or make a pit stop before making their next FTL jump is a small price to pay.

Any thoughts?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I had the craziest idea for a scifi story. I guess I have listened to too many narrated HFY stories. The premise is basically that a human female scientist has conducts an experiment in the fringes of human space, and successfully creates a star. Next she gets to making 2 or three planets, like in Titan AE with that ship, and various asteroids and other space debris.

The thing is, this creates a problem, because all these ships start dropping out of FTL, because their computers detected the star, which was never there before. The area was a highly trafficked route for FTL travel because it was a stretch of empty space, which has been used by numerous space-faring species well before humanity journeyed to the stars. Various alien organizations cry foul. They state that she is an impediment to galactic trade and travel, and cite a treaty that allows for FTL travel through the territory of undersigned species.

She points out that humanity never signed that treaty, and this is human space. Get off her lawn! She also points out that despite all the wars, weapons research, and various other acts of destruction, that she has managed to create something on an unprecedented scale. She has essentially made planetary conquest obsolete. Now, instead of humanity going out to find more territory to colonize, she has made a new star, and will have 3 habitable planets finished in about 5 earth years. Everyone else having to either find another FTL corridor, or make a pit stop before making their next FTL jump is a small price to pay.

Any thoughts?

I'm a big SF fan.

I do have to ask, though ... why would this be on Literotica? There's no sex in that plot summary.

-Annie

 

[Jacques_Corbin]

I'm a big SF fan.

I do have to ask, though ... why would this be on Literotica? There's no sex in that plot summary.

-Annie

Not central to the plot, but who's to say the scientist doesn't have one or more sexual encounters over the course of the story? Maybe she has one or more people on her staff that she has recreational sex with to relieve stress. Maybe one of the ships that unexpectedly drops out of FTL has an ex of hers on board, or perhaps a new paramour. I mean that's just the human stuff. The possibilities for xenophiles are endless.

 

[Jacques_Corbin]

I'm a big SF fan.

I do have to ask, though ... why would this be on Literotica? There's no sex in that plot summary.

-Annie

Also, the thread title is Empowering Women Ideas. What is more empowering than creating an unprecedented scientific achievement, staking out your own territory, and enforcing your boundaries in a hostile galaxy?

I just suggested a premise. Any writer that premise inspires can take that premise and add the kind of sex scenes they want. It really limits the potential of the female protagonist if I project my own sexuality, and my own ideal of the female form on her. This way, any writer can take this premise, with my blessing, and totally run with it on their own terms.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I had read the original idea as "sexually empowering" women, I guess.

-Annie

 

[Cagivagurl]

So wanting to write something on empowering women - though not at the expense of disempowering guys, guess ideally everyone would be empowered

Anyone seen anything interesting or have any ideas?


(Just so the comment below makes sense lol; originally this thread commented on a deleted thread - not gonna fuss about that, just gonna focus on the interesting stuff)

You understand that asking for a story about womens empowerment in Literotica is like looking for rocking horse shit....
The audience here is IMO... About 80% - 85% male.
They wouldn't understand the concept.
I've seen a few threads here where commenters suggested stories depicting women accepting roles as sluts and really getting into it as supposed female empowerment....
LOL...
There are a few really good stories in the lesbian category which interrogate the principles of female empowerment. The other categories all feed into the male perception of what an empowered woman represents...
I'm afraid, if you want realistic female empowerment. You will have to find other websites....

Cagivagurl

 

[MiaBabe23]

You understand that asking for a story about womens empowerment in Literotica is like looking for rocking horse shit....
The audience here is IMO... About 80% - 85% male.
They wouldn't understand the concept.
I've seen a few threads here where commenters suggested stories depicting women accepting roles as sluts and really getting into it as supposed female empowerment....
LOL...
There are a few really good stories in the lesbian category which interrogate the principles of female empowerment. The other categories all feed into the male perception of what an empowered woman represents...
I'm afraid, if you want realistic female empowerment. You will have to find other websites....

Cagivagurl

Well… actually I’ve seen guys above give some thoughtful answers, talk about agency, role reversal, want discovery and fulfillment, taking charge, altered contexts…
(And some great answers by women too)
You, girl, are the first to come and get snarky - did you find it empowering?

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

You understand that asking for a story about womens empowerment in Literotica is like looking for rocking horse shit....
The audience here is IMO... About 80% - 85% male.
They wouldn't understand the concept.
I've seen a few threads here where commenters suggested stories depicting women accepting roles as sluts and really getting into it as supposed female empowerment....
LOL...
There are a few really good stories in the lesbian category which interrogate the principles of female empowerment. The other categories all feed into the male perception of what an empowered woman represents...
I'm afraid, if you want realistic female empowerment. You will have to find other websites....

Cagivagurl

Not buying the argument of “we can’t create nice things here because not enough nice things already exist here.”

Lit’s library is massive. Yes, most (probably 90%) of the active forumers are male, but I believe the margin is much smaller on the erotica readers side. Gender balances aside, there is a place and audience for even the most out-there kinks and fetishes, so why shouldn’t we strive to create something that empowers half the world’s population?

 

[Boat1]

I think it's really simple to empower women AND men, by treating them both, basically the same. After all, both are people...
Treat them with courtesy, respect, love and appreciation. Compliment them on their individual strong points and don't fukkin rag on their weaknesses.
I work in the offshore oil biz, which IS predominantly a "mans" world, but even here, when someone F'ks up, I'm not going to jump up and down and scream about it, as that will fix absolutely nothing.
Never treat women any different. Don't cause them to be the least fukkin bit apprehensive of what they think, say, or do... NOBODY should spend one minute of their lives doing, what I call "the eggshell shuffle."

Rant off.

 

[Dirtygirlndeer]

Just one of the many reasons you are sexy as fuck!

 

[Rob_Royale]

You understand that asking for a story about womens empowerment in Literotica is like looking for rocking horse shit....
The audience here is IMO... About 80% - 85% male.
They wouldn't understand the concept.
I've seen a few threads here where commenters suggested stories depicting women accepting roles as sluts and really getting into it as supposed female empowerment....
LOL...
There are a few really good stories in the lesbian category which interrogate the principles of female empowerment. The other categories all feed into the male perception of what an empowered woman represents...
I'm afraid, if you want realistic female empowerment. You will have to find other websites....

Cagivagurl

I will respectfully disagree. No rant required. Speaking for myself as a writer, I strive to create stories that anyone could enjoy. Even my non-con gets great comments from women. That's not to say I haven't occasionally put the woman in a sluttier role, it's not my mainstay as a creator. I think your painting with a wide brush, CG.

Not to mention we have a yearly writer challenge dedicated to female empowerment.

 

[forgotmyantidepressants]

I think Literotica's female readership is much higher than people think. I've gotten (not many, but more than I ever thought I would get) messages from women who have read my stories. The erotica avaliable on Amazon Kindle is also primarily consumed by women.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Well… actually I’ve seen guys above give some thoughtful answers, talk about agency, role reversal, want discovery and fulfillment, taking charge, altered contexts…
(And some great answers by women too)
You, girl, are the first to come and get snarky - did you find it empowering?

It wasn't snarky....
Simply a comment...
If you read it as snarky, that's on you.

Cagivagurl

 

[Cagivagurl]

Not buying the argument of “we can’t create nice things here because not enough nice things already exist here.”

Lit’s library is massive. Yes, most (probably 90%) of the active forumers are male, but I believe the margin is much smaller on the erotica readers side. Gender balances aside, there is a place and audience for even the most out-there kinks and fetishes, so why shouldn’t we strive to create something that empowers half the world’s population?

Actually, I believe women all over the world are crying out for stories regarding female empowerment....
I myself seek out those stories.
Empowerment isn't about women becoming sluts.... It's not about tstrutting around in high heels chasing the male fetishes...
It's about women being freed from the need to please men...
It's about choice, being in control of their own destiny without requiring male permission...

If in achieving the freedom and space a woman decides that the pleasure of their partner whatever the gender, or how they identify is important. Then that is releasing their empowerment.

So many of the stories I read here in Literotica have no clue about empowerment. All they want is to satisfy the male fantasy's of nymphomaniac women... Women running around pleasuring them isn't empowerment. Not for the woman anyway...

These of course are just my thoughts. I don't suggest I am speaking for the whole world. Just expressing my opinion.

Cagivagurl

 

[Cagivagurl]

I will respectfully disagree. No rant required. Speaking for myself as a writer, I strive to create stories that anyone could enjoy. Even my non-con gets great comments from women. That's not to say I haven't occasionally put the woman in a sluttier role, it's not my mainstay as a creator. I think your painting with a wide brush, CG.

Not to mention we have a yearly writer challenge dedicated to female empowerment.

Rob, we are adults. We are allowed to disagree. I wouldn't have it any other way. I value your opinion. That is not me being disingenuous... I think we should all express how we really feel.

I do disagree with you... And that's OK...

I read the stories from the writers challenge. Well in all honesty. I read the first few chapters of most of them. Then closed out feeling very disappointed.

Why???

Because most were written for men... They are aimed at male readers. Male fantasies of what an empowered woman looks or acts like.
It's not about taking charge, or switching roles. That's not empowerment....
Empowerment (IMO) Isn't about dressing to fuel the male image of female sexuality.
A truly empowered woman wears flat shoes. Comfortable loose fitting clothes, that feels nice. She is bereft of makeup, because she is comfortable in her appearance. She's not trying to fit in with the way men see her.
A CEO who walks into a meeting totally comfortable in herself. Not with aching feet because she's brought into the male driven fantasy of what an attractive woman looks like....

That my friend is an empowered woman....

A woman who survives rape, which is never pleasant for a woman. Regardless how often men tell women it is.
In surviving such a traumatic experience is able to grow and build trust back in the people around her. Build a life, a family. That is empowerment....

An empowered woman isn't found pegging her husband. She isn't found humiliating her husband because it's what he wants...

A truly empowered woman is one at peace with her choices.

So yes... We disagree, but that's cool. At least in my mind. Opinions are nothing more than how we see the world...

Yes this opinion fly's against how most commenters here see the world. That's because, IMO... 80% of those commenting are male... They don't want their fantasies destroyed. They want to believe the way they see the world is correct.

Cagivagurl

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Actually, I believe women all over the world are crying out for stories regarding female empowerment....

I didn’t dispute this part at all, what I was addressing was your attitude about not being able to have stories about empowering women here because the current stories don’t meet your standards of empowering women. This thread is about generating a ideas for new stories, and you spent most of your post ranting about the lack of audience for it and lack of current content and literally said we’d have to go to a different site for that. There are people actively trying to go in a positive direction here and you just flat-out shut it down.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I didn’t dispute this part at all, what I was addressing was your attitude about not being able to have stories about empowering women here because the current stories don’t meet your standards of empowering women. This thread is about generating a ideas for new stories, and you spent most of your post ranting about the lack of audience for it and lack of current content and literally said we’d have to go to a different site for that. There are people actively trying to go in a positive direction here and you just flat-out shut it down.

I was offering my opinion...
Nothing more, nothing less. Not looking for a fight.
Yes, I (And this is my opinion) I am disappointed with the stories supposedly about female empowerment. And yes, they don't fit with my understanding. That is only my opinion.
We are allowed to have differing views. I was merely expressing mine.

Cagivagurl

 

[Catallus]

How about writing a woman who isn't stuffed with dick a second after some cock is shown to her?

Madness!

 

[StillStunned]

Empowerment (IMO) Isn't about dressing to fuel the male image of female sexuality.
A truly empowered woman wears flat shoes. Comfortable loose fitting clothes, that feels nice. She is bereft of makeup, because she is comfortable in her appearance. She's not trying to fit in with the way men see her.
A CEO who walks into a meeting totally comfortable in herself. Not with aching feet because she's brought into the male driven fantasy of what an attractive woman looks like....

I'm not saying that women don't dress to suit a male ideal, but plenty of women also dress and wear makeup because it makes them feel sexy in their own eyes. And it's only human nature: it feels good to look good, whoever is doing the looking.

In my Pink Orchid story earlier this year, by the way, the main character (female) is a CEO who finds herself becoming less sexual because of the demands of her job, instead of sexing herself up (because that's been my experience with women in leadership roles). The story is about refinding her sexuality and individuality. The response from female readers was very positive.