Category question: Transgender or Erotic Horror?

[SomaSlave]

I'm working on a story that involves a man's inner feminine (in the form of Lilith) taking over his body, dressing him as a woman and going to an ABS to have a massive sperm ingestion session. The twist involves Lilith having the male side think something entirely different happened. My initial impulse was to fit this in Transgender/Crossdressing. However, I don't want it to be interpreted as Lilith being a manifestation of a mental issue (a la Norman Bates). I'm considering slotting it as Erotic Horror, since Lilith is an elemental sort of sexual being. Am I overthinking this?

 

[YmaOHyd]

Yes, I think so. Since the main thrust of the plot is a character experiencing some sort of gender mismatch, I'd stick with that category, unless you intend for the primary emotion(s) to be revulsion, horror and/or terror, in which case I'd put it in Erotic Horror. The other category it might fit -- though again, I'd stick with T&C -- is Mind Control; the way you've presented it does kind of seem like an external being controlling the male MC's thought process.

 

[SomaSlave]

Yes, I think so. Since the main thrust of the plot is a character experiencing some sort of gender mismatch, I'd stick with that category, unless you intend for the primary emotion(s) to be revulsion, horror and/or terror, in which case I'd put it in Erotic Horror. The other category it might fit -- though again, I'd stick with T&C -- is Mind Control; the way you've presented it does kind of seem like an external being controlling the male MC's thought process.

Thank you for your thoughts. I want to keep it ambiguous enough that the readers, as well as the main character, are kept in the dark about what, exactly is happening. Where I live, there are, sadly, too many people who view this sort of gender uncertainty as a mental illness; I suspect I overcompensate to avoid being tainted with that. As my writing has developed, I find my characters are struggling with trying to define just who/what they are: not gay, not hetero, not trans, but something else. I suppose the underlying message of my stories is that, ultimately, alphabet soup is the wrong approach: people are who they are, no labels needed.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Yes, I think so. Since the main thrust of the plot is a character experiencing some sort of gender mismatch, I'd stick with that category, unless you intend for the primary emotion(s) to be revulsion, horror and/or terror, in which case I'd put it in Erotic Horror. The other category it might fit -- though again, I'd stick with T&C -- is Mind Control; the way you've presented it does kind of seem like an external being controlling the male MC's thought process.

As a veteran of T/CD, I agree. put mind control, non-con, and horror in the tags, though.