Okay, so, he’s sixteen but

[AwkwardlySet]

I think that's a very different situation from a 16 year old boy saying "mistress." The baby is a completely unaware passive participant in the scene. A 16 year old boy saying "mistress" is undeniably erotic. I remember the discussion we had over the story you mentioned earlier. That's a harder case than this one, which is not hard at all.

Are we talking about your personal ethics or about how severe the breach of Lit rules was?

 

[SimonDoom]

Are we talking about your personal ethics or about how severe the breach of Lit rules was?

My ethics have nothing to do with it. I'm interpreting the site rules. I don't have strong personal feelings about this subject.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

My ethics have nothing to do with it. I'm interpreting the site rules. I don't have strong personal feelings about this subject.

Well, we disagree anyway. Some women here mentioned how stimulating and even arousing it can be when a baby breastfeeds and how weird it can feel. Now put that together with phone sex talk. I'm not saying that the author wanted that effect but maybe the scene could evoke such thoughts in readers.

On the other hand, a 16 y old is practically an adult. I don't think there's a single one, male or female, who doesn't masturbate at least at that age. So that lad hearing sounds of masturbation or calling his sister "mistress", which doesn't have to mean that there's any sexual play between them, sounds orders of magnitude better than the baby thing.
To each his own, I suppose.

Edit: I think I misunderstood your post. We might be in agreement after all.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

It was a screenshot showing sixteen replies sixteen minutes ago, thus three sixteens.

You didn't explain that.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

On the other hand, a 16 y old is practically an adult. I don't think there's a single one, male or female, who doesn't masturbate at least at that age. So that lad hearing sounds of masturbation or calling his sister "mistress", which doesn't have to mean that there's any sexual play between them,

I don't see how it doesn't.

 

[alohadave]

You didn't explain that.

It's pretty obvious when you look at the picture.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I don't see how it doesn't.

Really? Obviously, I haven't read the story, so I don't know the context, but couldn't it be that they are role-playing only, or that he lost a bet and he has to call her mistress, and she gets to order him around, but there's nothing sexual about it?
It could be that the author put that scene there just to show her bossy side or something. It's all speculation, of course, but it's clear to me that it could be something like that.

Sometimes I wonder how far gone we all are here when we find it hard to imagine a non-sexual context for things like these.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You didn't explain that.

But some of us caught it anyway.

 

[AlinaX]

You didn't explain that.

I see an image rather than a link.

 

[EmilyMiller]

which is not hard at all.

You sure about that? There are alll sorts who read here.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I've read it. No issue

Clean separation between anything questionable

Sister being bitchey due to some scifi type thing.

 

[AlinaX]

That’s a generous interpretation. I reserve the right to be icked.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Plenty of ick and squick. I wouldn't have gone anywhere near there, nor would most AHers. If I wasn't scanning it for this thread, I would have backed out by the second page.


Mistress is used in more of an authoritarian way than BDSM Domme. Really, they should have just used Ma'am, but I guess they wanted to be edgy.

'Do this housecleaning chore!"

"Yes Mistress"

"Yes Ma'am" would have worked just as well.

 

[AwkwardMD]

It sounds like someone tried real hard to find that "How do I get away with including under 18" grey area.

 

[Gamblnluck]

On the other hand, a 16 y old is practically an adult. I don't think there's a single one, male or female, who doesn't masturbate at least at that age. So that lad hearing sounds of masturbation or calling his sister "mistress", which doesn't have to mean that there's any sexual play between them, sounds orders of magnitude better than the baby thing.

Whether or not a 16 year old is sexually active with others or only masturbates in real life is not the issue. NOR is any of our personal opinions. It is whether it violated the site's rules that is the issue.
Personally, I'd like to read the story myself as given the issue at face value, there is definitely a breach.

 

[Britva415]

The OP doesn't say or even imply that a sexual act was performed or witnessed.

The OP absolutely implied both of those things.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Ladies, gentlemen, and enbies of the assembly, we drink.

 

[Britva415]

It was a screenshot showing sixteen replies sixteen minutes ago, thus three sixteens.

John the Apostle is looking into this right now.

 

[Gamblnluck]

, but couldn't it be that they are role-playing only, or that he lost a bet and he has to call her mistress, and she gets to order him around, but there's nothing sexual about it?

Role play is a fast violation.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Previously the line has been that minors witnessing sexual activity ("hear her doing the whatever") is out of bounds.

Not only witnessing. I was called up for a character discussing her treatment as a child. Spanking. Again about her discussion of sex with her stepmother as she crossed into puberty. It might have been the way I said it but my stories were flagged and denied.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Started reading a story. 19yo girl leaves door open so whole household can hear her doing the whatever, including 16yo brother who has to call her ‘mistress’.

I, ah, hmm.

Can you post a clear link to the story or at least give us the title and author so we can read it ourselves?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Can you post a clear link to the story or at least give us the title and author so we can read it ourselves?

Not openly no. That would not be appropriate.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

It sounds like someone tried real hard to find that "How do I get away with including under 18" grey area.

No, it doesn't even really go there.

 

[AwkwardMD]

No, it doesn't even really go there.

A confluence of story details does not happen by accident. Its not a documentary. All story elements are choices that author made. They chose to put a 16 year old in proximity to exhibitionism, and put some pretty specific phrasing in their mouth.

I'm not making a value judgement, merely pointing out that it flirts with the line on multiple fronts.

 

[NotWise]

The OP absolutely implied both of those things.

The OP said, re the underage character "...16yo brother who has to call her ‘mistress.'

How much are you reading into that?