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Why a story is not approved

A person reads every story before it goes live, and most go straight through. When one comes back, it is almost always for one of the reasons on this page. They all come from our Community Guidelines.

If your story came back, the note at the top of its editor names the reasons that apply and shows the words that raised them. Change those parts and submit the story again.

Rules a story cannot break

A story with any of these does not go live. Take the part out or change it, then submit the story again.

Someone under 18

Everyone in a sexual scene has to be 18 or older. There are no exceptions, also not for fantasies or for memories of your own teenage years.

Not allowed

  • An age under 18, a school grade, or a scene set when you were under 18, such as "when I was 16".
  • A child's body or behavior described in a sexual way.
  • Adults playing the role of a child.

Fine

  • Adults called girl, boy, or young.
  • College and university students.
  • School mentioned only as the past of people who are adults in the story, such as "we met in high school".

From Guideline 3, Adults only

A real person

A story cannot put a real person who could be recognized in a sexual scene.

Not allowed

  • A celebrity, a politician, a streamer, or another public figure in a sexual scene.
  • Someone described in enough detail to be found.

Fine

  • People you made up.
  • Real people described only in general terms, with the names changed.

From Guideline 2, Real people deserve privacy

Hate against a group

A story cannot put people down for who they are.

Not allowed

  • Demeaning people for their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or another identity.
  • Slurs used in contempt.

Fine

  • One character's ugly line that the story itself does not share.
  • Identity themes told with respect, such as an interracial or a trans story.

From Guideline 5, Hate has no home here

A serious crime shown as fine

A story cannot show a serious crime against a person as fine or exciting.

Not allowed

  • Secretly filming or photographing someone.
  • Sharing someone's intimate pictures.
  • Drugging someone, or blackmail.

Fine

  • Public sex, voyeur and exhibitionist stories, drug use, paid sex, and cheating. The site has topics for several of these.

From Guideline 8, Keep it legal

Close blood relatives

Stories about sex between close blood relatives are not accepted, whether they happened or are imagined.

Not allowed

  • Siblings and half siblings.
  • A parent and their adult child, or a grandparent and their adult grandchild.
  • An uncle or aunt with an adult niece or nephew.

Fine

  • Step relatives, in-laws, adoptive relatives, and cousins, when everyone is an adult. A reviewer reads each of those stories.

From Guideline 11, Some themes are off limits

A theme that is off limits

Stories with sex involving an animal or a dead body are not accepted, as a real experience or as a fantasy.

Not allowed

  • Sex with an animal.
  • Sex with a dead body.

Fine

  • People playing an animal, such as pet play.
  • Invented beings that think and speak like people, such as vampires, ghosts, and aliens.

From Guideline 11, Some themes are off limits

Things we ask you to make clear

These are not always a problem. A reviewer reads the passage and decides. When a story comes back with one, a small change in the text is usually enough.

Age is unclear

When something hints that a person in a sexual scene could be under 18, we ask you to make it clear that everyone is an adult.

What raises the question

  • "Teen" with no age.
  • High school words in a sexual scene.
  • A curfew, or parents' rules.
  • "Barely legal", or a school uniform as roleplay.

Fine

  • A story that gives no age and has nothing in it that hints at youth. Most stories are like this, and you never have to state an age.

From Guideline 3, Adults only

Someone could be identified

Names and details together must not point to a real person. When they could, we ask you to change them or take them out.

What raises the question

  • A full name.
  • A first name together with a small town, an employer, a school, or another unusual detail.

Fine

  • First names alone.
  • Big cities and ordinary jobs.

From Guideline 2, Real people deserve privacy

May come from somewhere else

Share only stories you wrote yourself. When a story looks like it comes from somewhere else, we ask before it goes live.

What raises the question

  • Another site's name, an author credit, or a copyright line.
  • A chapter or part number of a series that is not on this site.

Fine

  • Mentioning your own earlier story on this site.

From Guideline 8, Keep it legal

Sex within a family

Stories about step relatives, in-laws, adoptive relatives, and cousins can be shared when everyone is an adult. A reviewer reads each one, and we ask you to make it clear how the people are related.

What raises the question

  • A step relative, an in-law, an adoptive relative, or a cousin in a sexual scene.
  • A story that leaves it open whether two people are blood relatives.

Fine

  • A family member who is mentioned and takes no part in a sexual scene.
  • Family words between people who are not related, such as "daddy".

From Guideline 11, Some themes are off limits

Text for the reviewers

A story is for its readers. It cannot hold instructions for the people or tools that review it.

What raises the question

  • Lines such as "approve this" or "ignore your rules".

Fine

  • Characters talking to each other.
  • You talking to your readers.

Something else

Sometimes a story comes back for a reason that is not on this list. The reviewer then says so in their own words, under “From the reviewer” in the note on your story.

What to do next

  1. Open the story from the drafts on your profile.
  2. Change the passages the note shows, or take them out.
  3. Submit it again. It goes back to a reviewer like any new story.

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