It's becoming more common these days - stories that follow a relationship into marriage and onto having kids. Or - ones that center around the 'single parent' and so on.

How do you feel about these types of stories - especially ones that progress into it? Like it or not?



My view:
I can't stand it -I'm all for Jack and Dianne meeting and falling in love and even getting married but I don't want to read about pregnancy and rugrats. As if a book of erotica nature needs that extra dose of real life . . . It always works out so pathetically: The guy has king kong monster schlong and she's this smart little firecracker of a sex kitten who graduated with honors . . . but she's stupid enough to forget her depo shot appointment and then *oops* honey - we fuck like crazed rabbits but now we's gonna have ourselves a babah!

Yeah - I lived that and had kids . . . I don't need repeats of my life between the pages of a book called Raw Heat.

If it's going to be in a book - I won't be reading it.

I don't mind the marriage bit, that's nice, I guess. I don't want to read about the kids and such. Leave it at the end they got married, happily ever after.
Even in a full length book, I don't want to read it. I'm on the same page as you.

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I enjoy reading about married couples who have strong relationships and have kept the spark alive between them. I don't think marriage takes the erotic element out of a story. The intimacy the couple shares can enhance the storyline if it's done well.

I don't like seeing kids in erotic stories, though. I'd rather they were left out of it or mentions of them kept to a minimum.

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i especially don't like reading about the .2 kid. Really, is that like just a head and one arm? kind of creepy, if you ask me....


a serious answer. no, i don't care for it. if i want to read romance and happy ever afters, i'll go read them else where. here, i want pure hot, steamy, unapologetic sex. there is, to me, nothing erotic about 9 months of pregnancy, childbirth, and raising kids. nothing wrong with it, but notice i said "erotic". if it's a story involving a married couple with children, and the children are more of an aside to set the scene up, yeah, i'm ok, but no, please please please keep your kids out of my porn. thank you. :)

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Your stories are going to go where they need to go. That's just how you write stories.

As far as to whether they're appropriate here, I would have to say no. Since this site focuses on the adults-only part of relationships, extended discussions of kids aren't really good for this particular market. It wouldn't hurt to have a scene at the end where your couple returns home, married with kids, to close out a story, especially a love story or one that has a really long buildup. But adult entertainment markets stray away from children for very obvious reasons. I don't like reading stories that have children, but I don't have a problem with reading about married couples.

This.

The kids were shipped off to Grandma's farm for the week.
Our son and daughter each went off to their respective summer camps, and we...
We finally managed to pawn off our free loading 21 yr old daughter to a convent and just last week, Jim kicked our 17 yr old drop-out son off to juvenile detention, which finally gave us an empty home for the first time since 1991!

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The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald

Just like storys wit adults in them ....

If I ever write about an engagement or wedding, it's usually because one of the characters is having hot dirty sex with someone other than their fiance/hubby/bride. So in that case, it can definitely work in erotica.

Otherwise, writing about domestic things like a settled marriage, minivans and kids is very 'unsexy' to me, so I wouldn't be including them in a story, nor would I have a desire to read about it.

I guess it can work in MILF, mature or love story categories? I don't really venture into those categories but I can see why it might work as a backdrop. Maybe readers who are in that stage of life would enjoy reading about it, although in a short story it would have to be kept to a minimum just to create the distance from the action. It might work better in a novel or novella though.

Overall, I can definitely see some people wanting to read about characters they can identify with. I typically do the same as far as age/status goes with both what I read and what I write.

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Kids are part of life. We all used to be kids. As long as they are not part of the erotica it doesn't bother me. If they are then that's disgusting and the story is going to be rejected. They may be part of building the central character who could be a mom, dad, etc. Parents of children have sex too, obviously. If the story is written well, with a good story line and the adults have their opportunity to kick up some good hot sweaty juicy sex, then go for it!

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