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It’s not porn… it’s adult themed erotica. Huge difference! </sarcasm> Posting your stories to other websites is fine, other authors do that. What they don’t like here are plagerists, spammers, under aged wizards, and things mentioned in the ToS. Look at the warning tags, the only subject topics actually forbidden are real-people-under-18 and where the original author has explicitly stated “no fanfiction allowed”. That, alone, causes some self-appointed morality warriors to have problems, therefore, the staff/moderators here have to be very diligent in enforcing those ToS. ( DG/BW/etc can give you tales of what they’ve had to put up with.) Every fanfic/story website I’ve examined, when I look at their ToS, are generally more restrictive than AFF when it comes to content. DG/BW, correct me if I’m wrong, I think you can put links in your profile to the other websites, which can help them sort out what’s legitimate if they ever get a complaint about a possible dupe.

When in doubt, send an email to the mods, let them know what’s up or ask a question, and they’ll pin it to their internal board if necessary. Like I said, it’s common, they even have a story tag for the opposite (AFFO for AFF only).

Yeah, I forgot to mention that you should find some way of indicating that you are crossposting. It would be very embarrassing to get a Hall of Shame warning when crossposting. (I used the same account name for each site, and they were the same day more or less...)

What I think is really interesting about this topic, is the ‘real world’ application. I’m posting to 3 sites including this one, but the audience is SO DRAMATICALLY different on every one of them… Yeah, I know. Genius observation. Are you guys really against cross posting? I’m being really secretive about it and not mentioning it to readers, but I just thought I’d share with ya’ll, since I do feel slightly underappreciated as well over here. I was looking for my audience though and I think I have a better idea now that I was able to connect with some other readers offsite. Also, I didn’t know this site hosted mostly PORN… I go to asstr and BDSMlibrary for that junk!!! And I search for the specific kink, scroll through anything that looks like plot, get my rocks off and then I close EVERYTHING! So nobody will ever KNOW!!! Lol. Strangely enough, absolutely NONE of my true kinks have made it into my writing. IDK, honestly, I can’t write the stuff I kink on and I’m not not gonna try, because do porn authors have a following? Yes, I guess they do. Have I ever envied that? No. Have I ever wanted to write a story, only to find out people are doing Ctrl + F to find the parts they wanna jerk too? Naw. I’m a queen of long story and plot, lots of fluff and cute, emotionally damaged boys finding comfort together… Did anyone say Yaoi? I don’t get off as intently to my plot and romance, as I do the crazy kinky PWP, but mine does include sex and the characters having sex feels like real people going through real issues. To me, that’s a lot more important to me than my 20 minutes on BDSMlibrary.

Like any good paradox, both are true. Erotic stories draw quicker attention, but less so can gather longer, thoughtful comments.

Actually, the stories I refer to often have very LITTLE sex or erotic content. And yes, we do have those on here. Very well written stories, whether short or long, that grab a reader’s imagination.

So, I’ve finally gotten a day off, after many 12 to 14 hour workdays, and guess what I did? Mostly I SLEPT. Slowly getting other stuff caught up here now.

Yes. I have quite a few that would go into things like rape fantasies, BDSM, SM, and many others. I don’t prefer it, and have a history with abuse, but I’ll write it. How I see it is this way: Just because it’s not in my life, or didn’t/did happen to me, doesn’t mean that it’s not in their life and did/didn’t happen to them. Though there are such things I wont’ write about. I won’t write scat, bodily functions like that. Vomit is ok, long as it’s not a fetish, I can’t do that.