How true is true?

I have a story with a lot of true details. The setting, the time, and the people are all very real. The only thing that isn't true is the sexual encounter. That was purely my fantasy. And it's true that I had that fantasy while the story was happening. Should I put it in the True stories area, or in another category? I have thought about posting it in True Stories with a disclaimer at the end.
Or am I overthinking this?

I think you should put it in the true category. As you said, everything is true, even the sex fantasy. Instead of it being fiction, we will get a peek into the sex fantasy you had about the people and the situation. I’m eager to read it and masturbate to the people in your sex fantasy, and to you, knowing you were Going At It — and we get to peek at you doing it! Write On !

Thanks, PT. I'll do that...

I have never really looked at True Stories to see how "True" they are expected to be. I can't write a true story here, I don't think. My sex life has been too vanilla and the best ones are ones I don't really want to tell publicly.

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I have a story with a lot of true details. The setting, the time, and the people are all very real. The only thing that isn't true is the sexual encounter. That was purely my fantasy. And it's true that I had that fantasy while the story was happening. Should I put it in the True stories area, or in another category? I have thought about posting it in True Stories with a disclaimer at the end.
Or am I overthinking this?

I think what you are doing is already truer than most of the stories in the true category.

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I think what you are doing is already truer than most of the stories in the true category.

That's, um, true. 😋

I’ve never read a ‘true’ story on here which I believed

Doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy them, but it’s all fantasy and that’s cool

No one is forcing you to take an oath. There's no lie detector test. You're not going to get thrown in prison for writing the 'better story,' just because you happen to invent some details or even make the whole thing up. Just go for it. No one cares.

My true stories are true, the date, times, and places have to change sometimes. The names are different. The feelings, emotions and how I remember the sex... all true. Personally, I could not care less whether people think they are, or are not true. I am being true to myself. 😘

I won't speak for anyone else, but for me, all fiction has an element of truth and all nonfiction has elements of fiction. I'm fond of stories that hang somewhere in the middle.

This is a sex-stories site! To me, it seems disingenuous to pass a sex story off as True if the sex itself was imaginary and didn't happen IRL. Everyone has vivid fantasies involving the people around them, so it's not like the OP's fantasy is somehow more "True" than everyone else's. Hell, the description (real people, real setup, imagined sex) probably applies to 80% of my stories! But I don't sell them as True.

Having vividly imagined it does not count as “true” in my view, but I guess that’s the post-Factual world we all live in, isn’t it? After all, "literally” got demoted to merely mean “very” twenty years ago, the top trending clips on porn sites now involve obviously fake 18” rubber cocks, and AI-generated porn is quickly overtaking porn involving real, breathing, sweating humans. More seriously, we can no longer distinguish fake photos and video from real, and have progressed from AI applying the Geminio curse to every human-created webpage, whether accurate or not, to us humans laughing it off as "hallucination" when AI regurgitates (or makes up) blatant falsehoods as fact. If insanity is the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality … welcome to the human race in 2026. Here we are now. Entertain us. Do not inform us.

Like AmuseBouche, I don't present a story as True unless it actually happened as I have written it. But even though A Hole New World is my only story in the True genre, because it is the only one that is 100.00% true, that is not to say my other stories don't have true elements. Much of the sex and dialogue in First Love and Dating Daphne are cribbed from past relationships with real women, the part of Lewd Beach where a woman reflexively smiled at me upon seeing my wank-reddened cock really did happen, as did the instance in Daphne’s Bath Accident when a girlfriend accidentally leaked in my face in the bathtub, as well as the moment in Thanksgiving Stuffing when a gay friend suggested I had a nice-looking package. Heck, even the guy and three women in the van in Buff Bluff in Banff directly mirror an actual van clan I encountered on a bike tour, though not in Banff and not sexually (and I did pick up a vibe). So while my stories are mostly grounded in real experience, I almost always scramble not just names, but circumstances and sequences of events, among other reasons to protect everyone’s anonymity - including and maybe especially my own! And to me, even when there are strong factual elements, that kind of mixing is the definition of fiction. Write what you know.

I can’t tell you what to do, and I take a dim view of any kind of formal genre policing, but I do wish you would just put your story in a genre that makes more sense for it.