Supersized characters - love them or hate them?

[rgraham666]

Never yet in any of my stories mentioned size. Of the characters. I have described some toys used as 'large'. That will mean different things to different people.

Which is the way I want it.

Anyway, size is boring. The act of sex is mostly emotional, in my opinion, and I'm more concerned with evoking emotions.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I love your latest. Her lack of chestiness is part of her charm.

Scamp!

*HUSG*

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I mentioned size in some of my earlier ones. I'd written a lot until then, but hadn't written or read much erotic fiction. I've learned that mentioning size may help in writing stroke, but not so much in writing what I consider to be actual fiction. Unfair judgment perhaps, but one I stand by.

Honestly, I don't care when I read about the size of the characters, in terms of endowments, anyway. If it's a story about someone tall or overweight, then these things can add characterization. I can't say I've read a story, least of all on here, where a man's penis size or a woman's cup size have added to the characters.

Usually, when they're mentioned, I head for the "back" button, to tell the truth.

Q_C

 

[R. Richard]

I think the issue of size depends entirely on how it is handled. If size is an integral part of the story, then it is fine. If size is just thrown in, then it is bad.

I wrote several chapters of a story where the entore basis of the plot is that a young man was very well endowed. Remove the size and the story makes no sense.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I don't mind stories that goes "she had the biggest tits I've ever seen..." or "she could hardly take all of his huge, massive tool in her mouth..." - I write like that myself. Love well endowed guys in stories!
But I find it cheap and sleazy when someone mentions the exact sizes. "Betty was a natural 32DD..." or "he dropped his trousers and showed her his hard 10-inch tool..."

 

[Tom Collins]

I must admit that numbers are a turn off. It usually amkes me roll my eyes when I see them. I'm sorry, but there are much better ways to express the size of a body part. I mean, would you give numbers when trying to relate the fact that your main character has unusually large hands? Nope. You'd describe them in other terms that clearly conved this fact. Throwing out numbers always strikes me as lazy on the author's part.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I must admit that numbers are a turn off. It usually amkes me roll my eyes when I see them. I'm sorry, but there are much better ways to express the size of a body part. I mean, would you give numbers when trying to relate the fact that your main character has unusually large hands? Nope. You'd describe them in other terms that clearly conved this fact. Throwing out numbers always strikes me as lazy on the author's part.

That is good as a general rule, but there are situations wehre numbers convey exactly what you want to convey, in the most concise way.

“Ever try finding Kevlar in a 48-DD?” she had recently asked a fellow runner who had mentioned her proportions. The girl had possessed a dancer’s body and found the comment amusing which was what Margo had intended, but the truth of the statement remained. She had often contemplated getting a reduction, but there were so many things she needed more.

That dosen't work if my character says ever try finding kevlar to cover big tits? Or full breasts? Or any other of the less obtusive ways of saying she was well endowed. For this character, her breasts being big are part and parcel of her character.

As with any rule of writing, there are situations it dosen't cover.

 

[JamesSD]

What is it about stories with supersized characters. Some readers love them and others can't stand them. Personally I love them. Well endowed guys and girls to me make the erotic fiction just that, erotic. Sure they may stretch the truth or reality but isn't that why we write and read??

There are so many stories that fit this category maybe there should be a seperate category to make it easy for fans of supersizes and I don't just mean BBWs but also super endowed fit guys and slim babes with massive breasts.

Unrealistic measurements are almost an automatic backclick for me. If a character has say a 9" cock, it should be clear that he's very VERY large. And once you get into the preposterous 13"+ plus range, the physics of the situation just become unbearable. There's no woman alive of average height that can take something like tha comfortably.

Breasts, again, I'm ok with a set of DDs (hell, I dated a girl with natural DDs who was height/weight proportionate). For me as long as the characters acknowledge that huge is huge, it does go a decent ways.

I am someone who estimates well and does tend to think about the world in terms of numbers. Show me a picture of tits and I can usually guess the cup size right; I'm decent on clothed women as well although obviously can be tricked by padding, etc. The same goes for cock pics, I'm generally a good estimator of size. So I really have no problem when an author states sizes, although I think it's better when the characters do. 90% of men know how long their cock is, so it isn't unrealistic for a male character to state it.

I think some exaggeration/idealization/charicaturization can be a good thing. But anything too ridiculous and you really should be putting it in Fetish. Just my opinion

 

[Guest]

What is it about stories with supersized characters. Some readers love them and others can't stand them. Personally I love them. Well endowed guys and girls to me make the erotic fiction just that, erotic. Sure they may stretch the truth or reality but isn't that why we write and read??

There are so many stories that fit this category maybe there should be a seperate category to make it easy for fans of supersizes and I don't just mean BBWs but also super endowed fit guys and slim babes with massive breasts.

What do you think??

Well, at times I have used over sized men's appendages. As for the women I actually tend to make them BBWs. Most people that read my story and look at how I describe the women would notice. I don't think that it's realistic to think that all women are a size 4 with nice perky breasts. So I make none of my women that size.

I don't usually mention numbers. I sometimes mention a big cock or big breasts or a shapely ass but I seldom mention anything more specific than that.

I think of too much mentioning of statistics as being rather stereotypical.

Agreed.

Back in the thirties, Polly Adler, the famous madam, said something to the effect that if she had one hooker who looked like Shirley Temple, she could make her fortune and retire in a year.

Rumple Foreskin

I will never be able to look at her the same way again.

Anyway, size is boring. The act of sex is mostly emotional, in my opinion, and I'm more concerned with evoking emotions.

Ahhhh... knew there was oodles of reasons to love you this is just one more.

I don't mind stories that goes "she had the biggest tits I've ever seen..." or "she could hardly take all of his huge, massive tool in her mouth..." - I write like that myself. Love well endowed guys in stories!
But I find it cheap and sleazy when someone mentions the exact sizes. "Betty was a natural 32DD..." or "he dropped his trousers and showed her his hard 10-inch tool..."

Unfortunately I have done that... the measurement thing. But the thought that usually pops into my head about that time is okay did someone bring a measuring tape? I am trying hard as I evolve to NOT put in the size but describe them some other way.

Unrealistic measurements are almost an automatic backclick for me. If a character has say a 9" cock, it should be clear that he's very VERY large. And once you get into the preposterous 13"+ plus range, the physics of the situation just become unbearable. There's no woman alive of average height that can take something like tha comfortably.

Breasts, again, I'm ok with a set of DDs (hell, I dated a girl with natural DDs who was height/weight proportionate). For me as long as the characters acknowledge that huge is huge, it does go a decent ways.

I am someone who estimates well and does tend to think about the world in terms of numbers. Show me a picture of tits and I can usually guess the cup size right; I'm decent on clothed women as well although obviously can be tricked by padding, etc. The same goes for cock pics, I'm generally a good estimator of size. So I really have no problem when an author states sizes, although I think it's better when the characters do. 90% of men know how long their cock is, so it isn't unrealistic for a male character to state it.

I think some exaggeration/idealization/charicaturization can be a good thing. But anything too ridiculous and you really should be putting it in Fetish. Just my opinion

Um I am naturally that large its why pretty much all of my female characters are as well. I have never had small breasts so I don't believe that I could write a story with them and make it sound accurate.

My thoughts....
I have used well endowed characters. I have used tiny characters. Most of my women are BBWs, because I am one myself. It is who I am so why should they not be as well? I know that as I try and work on getting published that I will have to modifiy the women more to make them more palatable to those that will be reading, but for now... I like my life sized girls and the men that are attracted to them for their brains and heart first.

 

[impressive]

Personally, I just am not interested in reading about biggie fries, 64oz drinks, and triple bacon cheeseburgers. I prefer my erotica quarter pounders with just mustard and pickle, regular fries, and a small Diet Coke.

 

[Equinoxe]

Personally, although I have yet to write a story to be posted here, I tend to create characters who are varied in appearance, some may be well endowed and others less so -- just as is the case in real life. This is simply a part of how the characters occur to me in my head, one may be a dark and mysterious busty raven-haired beauty, another a slender tomboyish red-haired artist.

It is generally true that a lot of more careful authors do often tend to speak ill of the all too common ridiculous stories of women with huge breasts and men with giant penes (I certainly mock them and I haven't written anything for the site), but as people have already mentioned it does in part depend upon the nature of the story and how it is written. Such stories are bit of a pet-peeve of mine, but I will try to give advice honestly and I don't, necessarily, think that this theme is inherently atrocious. My apologies if this gets a little lengthy.

There are several elements at play and which affect how the story will be received by the discerning critical eye, if you will. For many people the fantastic, larger than life (literally) characters are very much a focus and make the story erotic and I see no reason why some authors can't cater to that, especially if an author happens to amongst that group. To some people there seems to be a sort of fetishistic importance in knowing exactly how big, though I could not tell you why and cannot understand that myself. If the real focus of the story is the endowments of the character then we are talking about a fetish story and it is perhaps best to treat it as such (including on the part of the author and placing the story in an appropriate category). However, if the size factor isn't important and just seems tacked on and unnatural to the characters, then it will grate with the rest of the story and send it spiralling into the oblivion of horrid authorship, or at least the limbo of mediocre authorship. I think there are several techniques which are important in making it work, inasmuch as it might.

In any story it's important to show things, to suggest things, to create an image and create a certain liveliness to any element of action or a character -- this is no less true here. As was said earlier, you can't just say the character is large breasted or has a large penis, you have to show the effects of that throughout the story: there's going to be some struggling to make things fit, things might get in the way, etc. -- there are a whole manner of unintended consequences.

Now, as far as the question of specific numerical values and statistics, I must admit that I am decidedly less than fond of them, as are many other people here (as they've said); however, I think that a writer should avoid disallowing themselves things. If one insists upon specifically mentioning numbers, it should fit in the story and sometimes it is even perfectly applicable. The two basic rules, in my opinion, are that statistical descriptions can be used only either a) in dialogue or b) in a description of an inanimate object. In other words, do not describe a woman as having 40DD breasts. The only way to work that in would be to have her mention her bra size in dialogue, which of course means that it must somehow make sense for her to mention it -- which can occur in many different ways, some more hackneyed than others. I suppose that along the lines of the second rule, it could be mentioned specifically with regards to the bra itself, but that would quite rarely be relevant or workable and is best avoided.

 

[Carmenica Diaz]

I’ve always assumed that the character describing the measurements has an analytical eye or a tape measure in their purse/pocket.
My descriptions are minimal as I tend to leave it to the reader’s imagination.

 

[Tom Collins]

That is good as a general rule, but there are situations wehre numbers convey exactly what you want to convey, in the most concise way.

“Ever try finding Kevlar in a 48-DD?” she had recently asked a fellow runner who had mentioned her proportions. The girl had possessed a dancer’s body and found the comment amusing which was what Margo had intended, but the truth of the statement remained. She had often contemplated getting a reduction, but there were so many things she needed more.

That dosen't work if my character says ever try finding kevlar to cover big tits? Or full breasts? Or any other of the less obtusive ways of saying she was well endowed. For this character, her breasts being big are part and parcel of her character.

As with any rule of writing, there are situations it dosen't cover.

There's always a situational exeption to a rule, love.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The only time i've ever used numbers- or even came close- was in a bit of dialogue where one -straght- man says to another "Wanna see a strip tease? and the other straight guy says- "HAH! Do I see a set of double-D's on your chest?"

And when the ladylike drag queen Bon Bon shows her hardon, I couldn't resist turning her into a cartoon chracter -hung like a horse!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

It's a telling versus showing issue. Large size is a common bad-author gimmick.

Yes!! Please spare me the numbers

And there is the matter of... a character comes with what a character comes with, kind of like people... it's funny, the way they appear on the page/screen all of a sudden the way they do... I don't "make" them anything... that's why feedback always makes me laugh, "He should have been this way..." or "She should have been that way..." And the sky should have been pink and dolphins should have talked, too, right? If she's got large breasts, she's got them. If she's got an extra 20 pounds, she's got that too. If he's got a spare tire, it's there... I can't *not* write them as they are... I have never used size as a plot device <shrug> and most of the time, I leave descriptions sketchy and allow the reader to make up the difference.

I don't assume my readers are idiots. I assume they have imaginations and can fill in the blanks... and when the reader fills in the blanks themselves, it makes for a more interesting story for THEM...

 

[KR]

Dislike them.

Words are very evocative for me. They drill down through my mind, delving into the unconscious, stimulating my imagination to pull up sensations that are echoed in my flesh. I am empathetic by nature, and when I read fiction, I usually put myself into the story... And well, super-sized scares me, especially in the penile area (it hurts). I am not a size-queen, and when someone mentions a 9" cock I usually wince and hit the 'back' button, unless the story is so well-written that the size is an aside rather than a focus of the plot. And lets face it, a lot of what is out there is focussed on that 9" cock ramming into that impossibly-tight pussy and then shooting on the perky 36DDD breasts attached conveniently above. If size is indicated, numbers are bad, because the audience is international, and some people think metric, for example, and the reader's flow may be interrupted by the mental conversion from 9" into 23cm. As far as breasts go, other than the example Colleen Thomas provided, I think it is better to use imagery everyone can relate to, like breasts the size of large oranges, etc.

Just my preferences, anyway.

 

[MichelleLovesTo]

What Big EYES You Have...

It all comes down to the goal and abilities of the writer.

Is if supposed to be a fetish tale for people who like big? Is if meant to be a minor thing? It depends on the intended audience.

As fantasy, I like women who deliberately get implants or present themselves as fucktoys. I can like it a lot in a stroke story, but if I'm meant to like it on a more than lusty level, I need more depth of character.

As to men...the concept of a big cock is always appealing. It creates a terrific image, but again, there needs to be more to have the story cross over into literature. And it occurs to me that I've never written a story that focused on a guy being huge.

There is a type of turn on which engages my pussy and the type which brings my mind into the equation, and for the most part, I prefer to write the latter.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I've never written a story that focused on a guy being huge.

Hmmm... now you've got me wondering if there's a story out there that mentions (or is even focused on) the "small" penis???

Is there a fetish for that one, I wonder?

 

[Boota]

On the few occasions I've been taken to task for not giving breast and penis size in my story I've just responded, "How big do you want them/it to be?"

 

[Tom Collins]

Hmmm... now you've got me wondering if there's a story out there that mentions (or is even focused on) the "small" penis???

Is there a fetish for that one, I wonder?

I know of one, but you wont find it on Lit. It's called Pornucopia by Piers Anthony. It's constantly stressed through the book that the main character has a 3.4? penis. I can't remember the exact mesurement cuz it's been a long time since I read the book, but you could say that Anthony harps on the factthat the guy is under endowed. Yet his dick has Super Smegma. It cures VD...LOL

 

[MichelleLovesTo]

On the few occasions I've been taken to task for not giving breast and penis size in my story I've just responded, "How big do you want them/it to be?"

I only mention it if I feel it's relevent. Even then it's more in general terms of small, medium, and large.

 

[Boota]

I only mention it if I feel it's relevent. Even then it's more in general terms of small, medium, and large.

Exactly. Sometimes it just doesn't matter. If someone has a specific kink for size stories there's nothing I can do about that. I just write what I write and if people like it, good. If not, well, it's too late to worry about that.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Personally, I just am not interested in reading about biggie fries, 64oz drinks, and triple bacon cheeseburgers. I prefer my erotica quarter pounders with just mustard and pickle, regular fries, and a small Diet Coke.

Oh hell, Imp. Now you've done gone and flung a cravin' on me.
(Other than the one you usually do.)

Rumple (cut the onions) Foreskin

 

[BlackShanglan]

Why girls love horses, or ...

I've been pondering this issue, because while I don't personally get anything from "super-sized" body characteristics, I can see that some people find them immensely appealing. Therefore, I'm testing out this theory:

While I agree with Rebecca Browning that in real life size is no indication of the skill, pleasantness, or sexual stamina of a partner, perhaps some people read these images as a sort of symbolic shorthand. That is, they read "giant dick" to mean "immensely sexually satisfying man," not just terms of girth and length, but as a universal image of powerful satisfaction in all ways. Similarly, they perhaps read "enormous tits" to mean not just the physically pleasant sensation of encountering them, but "woman with abundant sexuality in all ways"; a sort of visual image of repletion.

That, of course, is the pleasant version of it. I've also heard this one, I think from Dan Savage, on the topic of really monstrously huge (as in basketball-sized) breasts: they are an image of utter submission to male desire. The female has transformed herself wholly into a sex object, so much so that every person who sees her will inescapably see her as a sex object and almost nothing else. She has eradicated the self in becoming a complete sexual object. I think that there is a great deal of insight there, many sexual fetishes being, ultimately, about power. The huge-cocked male, if we go that way, is often seen as a masculine dream of omnipotence, with the penis the sign of power. He's a man so well-hung that everything bows down before him. That's certainly the way I've often seen the over-sized cock portrayed in stories; the male only needs to reveal it in order to possess any person he pleases.

Of course, many stories don't follow those lines and challenge, subvert, or reverse that genre. I speak here chiefly of those stories that fetishize the super-sized body parts - that is, those that glorify them as the chief focus of the story and of sexual excitement.

I also discovered in my own writing how difficult it is to write a sex scene in which the yoni rather than the phallus is oversized in proportion. It certainly doesn't fit easily into typical conventions.

Shanglan

 

[LadyJeanne]

Shang, what about a yearning for fulfillment? The super-sized bodies *fill* a big need, something else they yearn for - like emotional, intellectual, or physical fulfillment.

That's my theory.