What kind of erotica turns you on? Are your tastes broad or narrow?

[Astrotrain]

What really gets me going are femdom orgasm denial stories. That's the main thing I read, almost exclusively. I can enjoy stories with female submissives undergoing orgasm denial, but it's nothing compared to the femdom malesub stuff.

And while proper incest squicks me right the fuck out, stepcest can be interesting. There's something compelling about situations involving people who have known each other for at least a large chunk of their lives and are forced to live in the same house together, just spare me the whole "sexual relations between actual blood relatives" thing if you please. And I wouldn't usually read this by itself, it would normally be in the context of an orgasm denial story.

Also, one type of story I enjoy exclusively with femsubs is omorashi. That's "pee desperation" if you didn't know. Girls desperate to pee and trying to hold it in while they look for a toilet or whatever. I can enjoy this with the sub by herself or with a dominant.

I'm also a huge fan of nonconsent. Add that to anything I've listed above and the arousal factor goes through the roof.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It's an intriguing question.

I'd have thought I was fairly limited in terms of kinks, pretty much straight vanilla, but then my range of categories suggests, maybe not. I don't bother writing stories "just to see if I can," so if I've wandered into a category there was something at the time, some emotion, arousal, relationship, some whatever, that took me there.

You don't need to be a genius, reading my stories, to see that my one constant theme is a deep love for women, and it's emotional intimacy that's vital. Usually there's a direct connection between what I find erotic and arousing, but on occasion I find eroticism in the sheer aesthetic pleasure of something, where the arousal isn't always physical.

It's interesting to see intelligence raised as a thing, one way or another. I find intelligence highly, highly arousing, the mind being the best organ of all. This doesn't mean that I'll be writing Hannibal Lecter type scenes though. I'd choose another wine.

 

[TheRedChamber]

A number of folks here take pride in writing a story "in every category." Is it fair to assume that not all of those stories actually turn them on?

I now have written in every category except non-erotic and novels, which we can ignore for the purposes of your question.

Nearly everything I think can be made erotic in some way to me. I've always had a broad interest in porn and erotica and especially anything I haven't read before.

That said, sometimes I start a story more because I like the concept rather than the activity. The funny thing is that in the process of writing, it can actually become my new fetish. I started (but didn't finish) a story last year about a 'plain' girl who discovers she has the most photogenic feet and gets involved in the foot fetish scene. I started not really knowing or caring about feet, but in the process of research...yeah, I decided there was something to be said for it.

I've also had a general interest in watersports for a while, but I recently wrote a story about clothes wetting. This came about purely because I was struggling with one of my last categories to write in - Mind Control. I had a list of various Mind Control techniques - hypnosis, magic, implanted technology etc. but they were all of the 'nerd uses MC to sleep with girl' variety - there wasn't really a satisfying story there. I hit on the idea of having the evil nerd try to implant a specific fetish in the poor lass and suddenly I had some thing workable (To me, YMMV). And I went with public wetting because it seemed the weirdest and most humiliating thing to do. As I was posting it, I was sure it was just too weird, but it's gotten the best welcome of any of my stories for a good while. I didn't 'research' it while I was writing it, but afterwards I was like, 'I don't know I want to go down this rabbit hole, but I might see what the entrance looks like.'

 

[Zootonius]

My likes lean toward the the internal emotions, particularly from the MFC's perspective. Her desires, lusts, anxieties. To me, it's the emotions that are the turn on.

 

[Astrotrain]

A number of folks here take pride in writing a story "in every category."

Forget about that, do you know what would be a real challenge? Writing a story for every single tag. For the purposes of this challenge you can count duplicate tags as one. I.E. "femdom" and "female domination", "stepsister" and "step-sister". And don't forget, you can use ten tags on a single story. Just one story would count for all ten of those tags, providing you give all of them a fair representation. That'll cut the workload down a bit.

Come on, you know you want to try it. It might take you years but imagine the sense of satisfaction and the sheer bragging rights you'll have on this forum when you finally complete it. Come on, I double dog dare ya.

 

[AlexiaBonds]

Try A Demon's Devotion and Vox Dominus by mesmerciless. The first is high school queen bee as a bratty sub (ish) for a some kind of demon posing as a human geek. The second has a rich college sorority girl trying to tempt a poorer, nerdier student into hypnotizing her into ecstatic slavery as a way to escape her social obligations.

Oh I'm gonna give that a try, thank you!

 

[GlennJenko]

My likes are quite broad, but almost all of them involve some kind of taboo or perceived taboo. Notably cheating and some forms of incest, and interracial for "shouldn't really be a taboo but is still sometimes perceived as one."

 

[LarryTee50]

I don't need lengthy backstory, but I do want to want lusty characters and well written explicit, nasty erotica. I'm into all kinds of kink and I enjoy bisexual, GS, Dom/Sub dynamics and lately I'm somewhat fascinated with incest erotica.

 

[Paul_Chance]

My tastes are broad. As long as it's well-written, well-edited and has full characters, I'll give it a read and find it arousing.

 

[KeithD]

My own, I'm afraid.

 

[tenyari]

While there are plenty of types of stories I like to read here, for them to be arousing to me they need angles of exhibition.

And... low on violence, intimidation, consent problems. No incest. Mostly MF. I can sometimes enjoy FF but not often and not if it's "FF done for the viewing of a nearby POV M" (I can enjoy FF when it has romance in it, whereas I can take MF however). I strongly dislike D/s and BDSM. I get nothing out of 'solo action'.

Characters need to be clearly adult. Not just the "all characters are 18 or older" tagline at the front of so many exhib stories that then go on to describe characters who have underdeveloped bodies / personalities. Those stories freak me out. Characters should look and act like adults.

Yeah so I kinda just described what will turn me off...

Additional turns on relate to 'public nudity' when it's also erotic / sensual. I have a kink for the 'Free Use' sub-genre but only when the 'usee' is a volunteer with an 'out'. In fantasy / sciFi I want the non-humans to be very human like. Goths (Vampires) and Furries (Werewolves) do nothing for me.

Good romance can be a turn on. Author forced romance (where there's just no chemistry), extremely common in 'genre fiction'; is a turn off.

If I am attached to the characters because they have depth and personality they kinky things they get up to will be much more of a turn on than if they're just rando #1 and rando #2 with hyper-generic names.

a LOT of genre fiction is also obsessed with ammo-counting (rambling off about survival stuff) and gathering harems - these things turn me off. Large ensemble casts are a turn off too because the characters are always shallow. It's OK to have a lot of characters and even name them, but there should be a 'main cast' that is small and tight knit. Because again - character depth enhances the turn on for me in any romantic / erotic scene.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Mine are broad.

 

[THBGato]

I'm here for the Lesbian Romance. In fact, I'll quite happily read something (e.g. Bi_Cathy's I'd go gay for you) that has zero sex in it because of the strength of the emotional connection between the MCs. To be honest, really I think I'm here for those moments of realisation when it dawns on the characters that they are not as straight as they thought they were (or at all). Hence, I'm not usually interested in stories between already out lesbians - though good writing can convince me otherwise - but rather those stories of personal discovery and awakening. It's a moment you can only have once in your own life, but reading characters going through those moments is almost as sweet.

Quickie hook-ups in the genre do nothing for me. I'm looking for stories that make me cry with joy, not get me off, though it's all oxytocin in the end.

A good writer, or a vested interest in a character, might sway me to explore another category (e.g. Salish's Desert Chemistry) but otherwise I rarely read outside the genre.

 

[Mogrem]

Broad with a common theme: Someone or someones* being buffeted around by circumstances that are either beyond their control or that they have surrendered control over. This is not necessarily straightforward dominance/submission, it can be submitting to events. Some element of chaos is good too, and a dreamy unreality is a bonus.

Within that, pretty open. If a story has that theme then I will gloss over or re-imagine the bits about it that don't do it for me and still enjoy the story.

* The someone or someones in the case of erotica always being female. Perhaps that's just my brittle sexuality, because I like roughly the same themes in non-erotica, but there I don't care if the someones are male or female.

The body is a dead pile of flesh.

Kinky. To each their own.

 

[nice90sguy]

I'm pleasantly surprised that female domination is well-represented in the responses so far -- and also that my favorite sub-genre, "femdom minus any bdsm" is also mentioned more than once. I always thought my niche tastes were just that.

If a story doesn't push my submissive button, but I still feel great after reading it, it's usually because it's an exceptionally well-written, deeply emotional experience which stirs my heart instead of my dick. That sort of story is rare, but quite a few authors here have written stories that do just that to me. You know who you are, I've praised you on the forums before.

 

[Abbafan]

I am fairly particular. I don't want to read a novel or anything too heavily romantic. But I also don't like stories that play out like a porn movie. I guess I like a certain amount of tension, people doing things they shouldn't but are just overtaken by lust.