I demur. I think sex is one topic where it behooves one to toss Strunk and White out the window. Passion is what a neuropsychiatrist would call a 'pre-frontal' state and by definition does not recommends itself to linear thought. I find that rules of good grammar, capitalization, punctuation, etc, get in they way of the flow of the action. Periods are as obtrusive as the awkward cuts between positions in poorly filmed porn. Great sex is like a run-on sentence. Attempting to capture the concupiscent moment may have been the inspiration behind the modernist movement. Episode 18: Penelope (a.k.a. Molly Bloom's monologue). Need I say more?
I don't think most beginning writers should try this. Stream of Consciousness is an interesting technique, but it's not just spewing out all the words that come into your head. It's supposed to LOOK like all the THOUGHTS coming into someone's head, but it's actually more difficult to do well than writing plain, straightforward prose.
And rules of grammar etc. when violated without that very high-bar skill toss the reader right out of the story, kill the boner, and leave him looking for something else to do.
There are things you mustn't do on this thread, such as write a realistic 'first time' story if your first time occurred some time prior to your eighteenth birthday, as mind did. You'd have to qualify: "it was the summer between my sophomore and junior year of high school and I had just turned eighteen (because I was wicked retarded and was left back a couple of times).
Yeah, the "I was an 18-year-old sixth grader when I sucked my first cock" stories. Lame.
But you see why they can't have underage content, right? The US and UK (I don't know about Oz and NZ) are INSANE right now about underage content. "Someone has to protect the [wholly imaginary] children from exploitation [even though they're not being exploited, aren't children but teenagers, and, hello,
don't exist ]!" We're living in a world where an elderly lady was threatened with arrest for
photographing an empty swimming pool because the pool was sometimes used by children, even though it was off season and there were no children (or in fact anyone else but her and the misguided asshole authority figure) present at all. Yes, you know pedophiles get off looking at pictures of empty swimming pools. Perverts.
Under those circumstances, it's entirely appropriate for JUB to be cautious.
And of course you can't write about a those real quickies where the condoms are no where in site.
If this is a rule here, it's seldom if ever enforced. I've never seen a case of a story being objected to on these grounds (not by the mods, anyway...members object to all sorts of stuff). Do you know of any? There are plenty of condomless stories on here.
Personally I think this should be a forum where members are at full liberty to exercise their rights under the First Amendment (while they still have them). There's no harm in writing about it.
If the US Government (or any state or local government IN THE US) were in charge of this site, the First Amendment would apply. It's privately run, so it doesn't. As a friend of mine said about a site he runs, "if I want to make a rule that gerunds may not be used on my site, I'm entitled to do that."
