Why Do YOU Write on Literotica and What Do YOU get out of it?

I've an incurable jeans fetish. It's getting harder and harder for me to find new content satisfying this fetish, with fashion trends heading towards baggy and loose jeans these days and global warming. I've still got content from earlier years but the content didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. There's always something that could have been or something which fell short.

Finding Literotica has enabled me to find stories which have been able to help me get off more than movies, especially now I've the imagination, cultivated from years of watching, to visualize what goes on in them. Reading some of these stories has inspired me to try writing my own. I can't make or watch the stuff I want but at least I can create it on the page or read it.
I'll like to add that iwatchus is one of the authors whose stories I like, especially his Friends series with Lisa, Audrey, Alan and Tim. I've saved at least a few of his stories for savoring and this is one series I'll love to see dramatized.
 
In my essays https://www.literotica.com/s/writing-away-the-darkess and https://www.literotica.com/s/writing-away-the-darkess-pt-02 I tell my story in more depth. The upshot is that my original motivation was catharsis to aid in healing my childhood trauma. Along the way, I learned that I enjoy writing. My last two stories were purely enjoyment and celebration that I'm alive after the health scares of late 2024 and the first half of 2025. But the theme of healing trauma is present in almost all of my stories in some way.
 
For thirty-odd years, I have been making up stories in my head, and at some point, I started to write them down for my own enjoyment. Sadly, those early versions have been lost due to format/encryption issues. During lockdown, I began to write them down again.

Why here? I was going to publish on ASSTR, but it did not exist by then. A search brought me here.

What do I get from it? Three things:
  • Escapism, because it takes me away from real life
  • Approbation, I like receiving votes and positive comments
  • Satisfaction, from creating a universe of interlocking stories and characters
The latter was unexpected, but I really enjoy this aspect. The moment when I spot an opportunity to link stories/series together is one of the most rewarding things for me.
 
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When I started writing here, it was a fictionalized version of a real event at our own house. I then stared writing about ideas that had been brewing in my mind for years. What do I get out of this? Proving my High School English teachers wrong about my ability to put five words together.
 
I am a creative in my heart and soul. I write fiction, music and make art in my spare time. I am also a sex crazy nympho dude who is obsessed and fascinated with all things erotic

I don't write on Lit for views or comments (though the dopamine hit is pretty good). I write because I like the thrill of seeing my name on this site, and knowing that someone somewhere might enjoy something unique that I am able to create.

It's no different from being up on the stage with my guitar. I am a quiet, introverted man in real life, and writing erotica helps me express with words anonymously that which I cannot or do not want to express in my real life.

Plus a lot of times, when I am trying to write a non erotic story and am facing writers block, getting a few paragraphs of trashy erotica out helps lube the engine, as it were.
 
For me, it's a journey of self-exploration. I grew up in a very conservative environment, and had a lot of shame surrounding sex and sexuality. I've only fully become comfortable with myself and my own desires within the past few years. My spouse and I went through a bit of an epiphany/awakening (more me than my spouse, really, I was more uptight about it to begin with), which led me to finally internalize the philosophy that, so long as everything is done with full informed consent and consequence awareness between adults, there's nothing wrong with any of it.

I've been making up stories in my head for as long as I've been masturbating, though I never thought I'd end up putting any of them to written word, let alone posting them on the internet for the world to see. Writing and posting my fantasies is a way to explore my sexuality safely while still maintaining a happy, loving marriage with a supportive, but very monogamous, spouse who shares only some of my kinks.

I've only posted two stories so far, about a year ago, with a third about to be submitted, but I've got about two dozen works in progress that I've been consistently adding to little by little since I signed up, which I'm sure will slowly trickle out as I complete them. In another thread, someone mentioned that it sounded like I had too many stories in progress (I only had eighteen at the time!) and should limit myself to one or two at once, but many of them are the stories I'd been making up for years before joining this site, so it makes sense that I'd have a large backlog.

I write the stories that I wish already existed, so that I can read them. I've learned that putting things into words outside of my head takes a lot longer than imagining stories inside my head, but I've been enjoying the process. I appreciate creativity of all kinds, so I'm glad I have an outlet for my sexuality that also allows me to be creative, and equally glad that I have a creative outlet that allows me to explore my sexuality.
 
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