Okay, guess I better write something....
So, quite a while back, I joined an erotic fiction site. I may not exactly be the next Shakespeare, but I do like creative writing, and always did. In particular, I wanted the opportunity to explore some of my, well, darker and edgier erotic fantasies, and saw the opportunity to write about them as a cathartic experience. To live vicariously through the story and perhaps, to share the fantasy with other like-minded readers.
Then, several years ago, when I was still new to the site, I had an idea for a story. It was entitled "Torment of the Bikini Goddess" and the overall theme was the story of a meeting, courtship and ultimately, the marriage of a femdom-led (dominant female/submissive male) couple. Of course, the story contained plenty of kink, bondage, dominance and submission. I won't go too into detail, but some of the scenes, particularly the opening scene where "They met" were, shall we say, pretty explicit.
I was new to the site at the time, and posted it in a category called "Loving Wives," which generally featured stories of cheating wives and cuckolded husbands. And the cuckold scenes in my story were pretty explicit as well, but the difference was, in my story the "Cuck" relished the humiliation factor of the dynamic, rather than being angered by it. However, because I was new to the site, I did not realize that most of the readers of that particular story category tended to be very conservative in their sexual tastes. They liked reading about the sex, but any story where, not only did the cheating wife escape any negative consequences but the man actually ENJOYED watching her with another man- well, that did not sit well with that crowd- at all. And as for the whips, paddles, and other stuff, well, their reaction was, "Man, if I were him, I'd have that psych B**** locked up!!"
Needless to say, the public reaction to that story was not positive. It was met with a mixture of outrage, disgust, shock, and outright anger by the readers, who were not afraid to express those reactions in the comments fields. I was deeply embarrassed, but most of all, it really made me question whether my kinks were even healthy, and I even contemplated seeking therapy to overcome my submissive kinky side. I've posted in the past about "Bingeing and Purging" and feelings of guilt, and this was one of those incidents that led me to at least try and disavow my kinky side- for a while anyway.
But I also realized something else important. You have to know your audience. For example, you would not book Cannibal Corpse or Deicide to play at your Christian Family Music Worship Potluck. My posting that story was the literary equivalent of doing just that. Just like, if you booked multi-platinum recording artist Taylor Swift to play at your Wisconsin Death Metal Fest, she'd probably get booed- assuming the audience could even stay awake through her performance (ha ha ha ha ha) When I posted that story, I did not know my audience...and it was clearly the wrong audience for that story.
Here on this site, people are, by and large, far more kink-friendly. But even here I have learned, that it's still subjective. I've noticed that sometimes when I post "kink" content in this blog and in the forums, a lot of people aren't that into it. Not everyone has the same kinks, and some of mine probably would make even "kink friendly" people uncomfortable, particularly dominant males and submissive females (and yes, even some certain dominant females too.) For my part, the very idea of urethral sounding makes me squeamish, however- if that is your kink, then certainly I will not judge.
So anyway, that's all I got. Don't bother to look for that story by the way, I had the site admin take it down shortly afterward. But I have since posted others on that site, some of them in a specific section dedicated solely to BDSM and kink, and these actually have had much more favorable reactions. Much like on this blog, I have also written several non-erotic stories there, just because, well, I like having an outlet to express my creative ideas. Anyway, thanks for reading, see ya.
