Female centric stories

[EmilyMiller]

I don't really put Reese's Pieces in the same category with Peanut Butter Cups.

I get that they're made by the same people, but there really aren't many similarities. Pieces are merely another kind of m&m, basically; Cups are a pinnacle of human culinary creativity.

I actually prefer these:

 

[sirhugs]

Team Craig I’m afraid

NEXT you'll be claiming that it will be okay for them to remake the Highlander, obviously without Connery. Everybody knows tht there can only be one highlander, and it was Connery. Yes, I know technically Christopher Lambert was The Highlander, but Connery stole the movie and all that Lambert ended up with was being married to Diane Lane. Hey, not such a bad consolation prize...hmmm

But, recasting Connery's role with Russell Crowe????

 

[EmilyMiller]

NEXT you'll be claiming that it will be okay for them to remake the Highlander, obviously without Connery. Everybody knows tht there can only be one highlander, and it was Connery. Yes, I know technically Christopher Lambert was The Highlander, but Connery stole the movie and all that Lambert ended up with was being married to Diane Lane. Hey, not such a bad consolation prize...hmmm

But, recasting Connery's role with Russell Crowe????

I feel very young suddenly.

 

[Duil2]

I feel very young suddenly.

And I'm feeling a little old.

 

[sirhugs]

I feel very young suddenly.

you're welcome

 

[SkyBubble]

Lit has lots of female centric stories.

There was a recent event called "Pink Orchid" sponsored by @Omenainen that was all about female-centric erotica.

 

[SkyBubble]

My opinion this might be slightly off but doesn't an author have to be able to write all kinds of characters to fill a story.

Yes. That's correct.

 

[SkyBubble]

Link for those who haven't seen it: https://tags.literotica.com/pink orchid/

Thank you. My Pink Orchid story is doing quite well.

 

[lovecraft68]

Thank you. My Pink Orchid story is doing quite well.

Mine both did better than I thought

One of them is an old piece I tossed in that's just over the top bonkers porn but the other was in BDSM and a lot more serious, I thought it was going to get killed but it did well.

You know, silly me writing as a female dominatrix, when will I ever learn.

 

[Voboy]

There was a recent event called "Pink Orchid" sponsored by @Omenainen that was all about female-centric erotica.

I've long felt conflicted about that event. I feel like a lot of my stories feature extensive female agency (sometimes to a fault), and I castigate my male characters when they do not make sure sex is mutually gratifying.

But I participated one year, under an alt, and the story was doing well last time I thought to check it.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

tons of people write BDSM without knowing much about it. Yet I don't see people agonizing over getting BDSM right, at least not to the degree that people agonize over getting the female experience right.

A lot of people fantasize about BDSM with no intention of actually doing it. The dominatrix with uncanny mind-reading ability, the sub with amazing stretchy holes - it's all part of an imaginary universe just like non-human porn. Occasionally people want to get it right, often by getting into the scene and trying it - which obviously isn't an option for writing characteristics you can't adopt!

I don't see people hand-wringing over accurately portraying races, either. Maybe some people do, but I have yet to come across a thread yet that's about "black centric stories" or whatever.

There's some, but there's a lot more hesitancy about trying it. Especially on Lit, where you have the Interracial category which mainly fetishises American Black vs White history, and any other story tends to stay well away even if it has characters of different races.

In mainstream publishing there's been angsting for some years about not enough black/ethnic minority authors, and pushes to encourage more, but often ending up with books that include only characters from those backgrounds. And given new authors and ethnic authors often don't get as much marketing, we'll never get decent numbers of such characters if authors only write themselves.

Basically if I (or anyone) want stories that represent where I live (my street and the town are about one third blackish, one third whitish, one third Asian, with a lot of mixing), someone's got to write ethnicities that aren't their own.

And Lit is a good place to try that, because if I get feedback that a character is definitely inaccurate, or offensive, or whatever, the story can be edited or even taken down.

I think it's worth reflecting on why we care so much about accurately portraying the female experience over other experiences.

I'm on a few communities where authors can ask for advice. What's interesting is how many say they'd never try writing a different race, but blithely decide to set a story in a country they've never been to (almost invariably part of the UK or Ireland, though I think Japan and S Korea get the fan treatment now too). Possibly because they don't realise Europe isn't just the USA but speaking funny? They'll fret over a particular medical issue and how it's treated, but never consider that Brits don't major in anything at university, don't 'graduate' at 18, nor celebrate Thanksgiving...

Disability is another interesting one - from out of sight, out of mind when I was growing up, then a bunch of stories about either the poor plucky disabled person, or later the amazing crip succeeding against the odds, and now attempts at being a protagonist but the story is still mostly about the disability. Slowly, we're getting more books and film and probably Lit stories with various characters who just happen to have a disability.

But on Lit, the questions are only about portraying women in general, aka people just like them except for being female. Maybe it's just because most authors are heterosexual men not interested in the rest of humanity?

 

[anthrodisiac]

and we aren’t some homogenous blob,

Unless they're slime girls.

 

[Ianus4]

IAs pointed out by someone else in this forum (though I can't recall who), tons of people write BDSM without knowing much about it. Yet I don't see people agonizing over getting BDSM right, at least not to the degree that people agonize over getting the female experience right.

This is also the case with cuckolding stories, which are slowly taking over almost every category, even though in reality it is one of the most dangerous fetishes.

 

[Stanfield2025]

This is also the case with cuckolding stories, which are slowly taking over almost every category, even though in reality it is one of the most dangerous fetishes.

Why is it one of the most dangerous fetishes?

 

[Ianus4]

In mainstream publishing there's been angsting for some years about not enough black/ethnic minority authors, and pushes to encourage more, but often ending up with books that include only characters from those backgrounds.

Oh no, there are dozens of bwwm-stories on the bestseller lists where a billionaire, arrogantly handsome white man falls in love with a poor black girl.

 

[SmilingLez]

As pointed out by someone else in this forum (though I can't recall who), tons of people write BDSM without knowing much about it.

And that is the most dangerous of all. So many people who read those stories end up injuring/traumatizing their partner in real life using the steps provided in the story, because they can't separate fiction/fantasy from reality.

 

[Mastered_again]

Why is it one of the most dangerous fetishes?

I have no experience, but my heart and mind scream, "minefield."

 

[Ianus4]

Why is it one of the most dangerous fetishes?

Without proper aftercare, it can cause lifelong mental trauma.

 

[liliput1]

Without proper aftercare, it can cause lifelong mental trauma.

I think bondage may be much more that way, but my sample size of one for C/HW ended up with HSV before she left him. Developed a weird reaction to it later too. We need a vaccine.

To be fair, she was single or not seriously dating for a long time after, so maybe there’s more to what you say than I’m recognizing. I met her new fiance once, he seemed like a teddy bear and probably what she needed.

 

[lovecraft68]

As pointed out by someone else in this forum (though I can't recall who), tons of people write BDSM without knowing much about it.

EL James and Fifty Shades set BDSM back a long way.

 

[lovecraft68]

Why is it one of the most dangerous fetishes?

Dangerous to relationships. Cuck/Hotwife in real life is similar to swinging. It seems so hot in fantasy. Guy thinks seeing his wife with another man would be incredible until you're in that room and that guy's dick is in your wife's mouth. Wife can react badly and back out, or worse go through with it and feel like a cheap whore, husband could feel awful afterward, jealous, pissed off, or he can go off right there.

Talk to people who have been in either lifestyle for some time and they all have shit went south bad stories.

There is a way to do it. There is a way to experience BDSM and other things but that way involves, time, patience honesty and trust.

And few stories cover any of that, and I get why, its erotic fantasy so it dodges boring realism, same for porn vids, but some people as someone else said can't separate one from another.

 

[SkyBubble]

In other ways men are incredibly complicated. But not when it comes to sex.

Sorry, but that's just incorrect.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

12 pages in, and I still have no idea what "female centric" means.

This was pointless and a huge waste of my time to read.

 

[Statius]

12 pages in, and I still have no idea what "female centric" means.

This was pointless and a huge waste of my time to read.

That sounds about right.

 

[EmilyMiller]

12 pages in, and I still have no idea what "female centric" means.

It’s meaningless. It assumes women are a homogenous whole, not an agglomeration of disparate individuals.