The Way Things Work

Every mind works differently, and everyone must choose where their personal limits are. This doesn't apply only to sex, but also to violence or religion or any other topic imaginable.

Often this is treated with an almost instinctual identification. "I like this, therefore this is okay." There are exceptions, things that fall so far outside society's norm that the majority speaks out on the freakiness of the very thought that drives it.

Hard Vore is an example of this. I wrote a story about it, from a somewhat unique perspective. The story itself is written well, but I didn't admit to creating it while I let it process in my head that my brain had gone there. I know it's a crazy subject for a story. I know the audience is very small. As it happens so often with ideas, it banged around my skull until I put it down in words.

Three months later, I'm up to admitting it. I wanted to post it somewhere, to share it as I do others, but the site I chose (after a week open for public viewing and nearly 3000 hits) rejected it for not completely understood reasons. It feels horribly like censorship. I understand that even though a site is dedicated to erotica it might not post everything a writer could dream up that pertains to erotica, but I would expect it to have been rejected sooner.

They have a webmaster look over each story before it goes up, and there's a waiting period associated with it. I expected it to be tossed back then, if it was going to be a problem. I did read their submission guidelines and I also checked out their writer's resources; nothing I found told me the story didn't meet their ideals.

But since I put it out there, now I wonder if I could market it elsewhere. I would not have lived to be this age if curiosity killed anything.