Celebrities/Real Life and Minors

[Guest Meat Boy For Sale]

I remember reading the guidelines about writing about minors but I don’t remember reading enough about the celebrity/real-life section.

I wanted to ask if a fic about a real-life celebrity or pornstar having sex with a minor is allowed or not. 

[Desiderius Price]

(I’m not a mod, just replying so it shows up in several of the mods alerts because I’m seeing that activity is high this morning.)   

Several questions they’ll likely ask: 1) age of the celebrity, 18+?, and 2) Is this minor a real person or fiction?

[BronxWench]

Any sexual content involving a real person under the age of 18 is completely out. That’s just not negotiable in any way, shape, or form. That includes flashbacks to explicit matter in the real person’s past, whether fictional or not.

Now the slippery slope… what about the other characters? As far as AFF’s official position, if the underage character is clearly fictional, there is no legal prohibition and therefore no concrete reason for us to object, other than perhaps good taste (although that is my personal distaste for the entire genre of celebrity fiction showing, I fear). 

Because we are dealing with real persons, I am very conservative, and would strongly recommend you not place any real person in the position of committing fictional pedophilia. I’m quite sure most celebrities are uncomfortable enough with most of the fan fiction about them, explicit or otherwise, but crossing that line might be a bit too far for their legal and public relations people. If you’re writing about real persons of your acquaintance, I’d hazard a guess you might be ending friendships and/or relationships. There is the additional consideration of not knowing who might see the story. If it’s sent to a minor, or a family member of the real person...ouch. And it has happened to one of our authors with a RPF they thought was deleted.

So, the short answer? If the underage character is not real, it’s not prohibited, but we moderators do read those with a fine tooth comb (and a large whiskey at hand) and we will err on the side of caution.

[JayDee]

And then there was this happy fun time!

Weird addendum, the guy died a couple years later, he’d had heart problems. His obituary made the paper for his town with, again, very distinctive names. No mention of the sister fetish.

Edited June 15, 2018 by JayDee

[Desiderius Price]

14 minutes ago, JayDee said:

And then there was this happy fun time!

Weird addendum, the guy died a couple years later, he’d had heart problems. His obituary made the paper for his town with, again, very distinctive names. No mention of the sister fetish.

Relatives tend to sanitize the obituaries, though there’s occasionally an exception and you’ll typically see those listed under “odd news”.

[SkyBubble]

Can we write about celebrities here?  Actors, singers, athletes, etc.?

 

[WillowDarkling]

Stories go in the Archives. Not on the forum.