Obsession 

“Something or someone that you think about all the time.”

Despite the negative connotations of the word, obsessions don’t have to be unhealthy. Maybe it’s a first love and you sit dreaming of them until the next time you can touch again. 

Perhaps a new partner has introduced you to a new sexual experience, so intense, so mind-blowing that all you can think about is the way it had you writhing and squirming and cumming until you were a spent wreck.

Or just maybe, it is an obsession with a slightly darker bent. We have horror, reluctance and mind control categories on Lush. It’s an extra challenge for writers to write in those categories and stick to the consent rule, but when people get it right, the stories can be pretty intense. 

As always, don’t limit your imagination. You can write in any main category (no poetry, flash or micro) and have any number of sexual partners for your characters. Use the category descriptions to get additional ideas.

Stories should have a maximum of 7,500 words. This competition will run until the end of September and winners will be announced Oct 13th.

Please see here for full details.

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My questions are... Is the story view count different between LushV2 and LushV1? And, if so, should the 30,000 number be revised down?

Don't think so, but we publish many more stories these days, so the reading pool is much larger.

My questions are... Is this still supported? If not, why? And could we have readers nominate a series award?

No. It was missed when we moved and has not been reinstated. Jury is still out on whether it will be reinstated at some point. It could be extremely time consuming for the panel to get through and not everyone could dedicate the time, unfortunately.

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Perchance does NOT take instructions well.

Salutes

Same, sister. Same.

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Thank you for your reply. Part of my motivation was to remind others of internet safety. Did the linked media age off, or did you specifically delete it? Just wondering...

I didn't delete anything.

There are lots of different levels of caching etc involved, for all the various parts of the site, and that is as technical as I'm ever going to get. We need to be able to retain stuff on the servers in line with GDPR and for follow up reports to law enforcement etc.

If you delete your account, all data is purged after a set time.

I'll just reiterate basic internet safety for everyone. Between downloading and screenshots, if you don't want something on the internet, don't put it on the internet.

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I’m in Tennessee and they recently passed a law requiring age verification for video porn sites but apparently that doesn’t apply here. I’m not sure. Do you have any information on that?

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I’m in Kentucky and noticed a change for me. When I’m not signed in the pics posted are blurred with 18+ on them and the avatars are blurred, too. However, I can read the stories.

Our governor passed a bill a while ago, making us give ID info to watch adult content.

Yeah, I'm honestly not sure. This site is UK based though, so that's why it's kicking in for us now. Not sure if ISPs are meant to limit who sees what in other places. How would any company keep a track of every law in every country or state that users access their content from 🤷🏼‍♀️

If you're a UK member, you'll notice that from today, you will need to sign in to read stories. This is due to the new age verification bill for adult sites which goes live tomorrow.

Existing members won't have to re-verify, but new rules will be in place for people signing up.

If you can read this, you're already a member, lol, so this is just for info. There will be instructions for new people signing up to follow, to advise them how they can age verify.

Thanks.

I'm still sad we never got Gilbert Gottfried to do it.

I just wanted to address this because it's something we're seeing more and more of, and given the state of the world, I suspect it's only going in one direction.

coughs skynet coughs

This is a writing site, but more than that, it's a community of writers and readers who encourage, feed back to, assist and champion other amateur writers who take time and effort to learn the rules of grammar, hone their craft, edit and edit and edit and then put out something for others to hopefully enjoy.

Plugging something into an AI generator and presenting a story about five seconds later, in my opinion, is just as bad as plagiarism, which is already the top cardinal sin on a writing site.

I've no doubt that some people just won't care in the slightest that it's not their own work, but I'm going to ask anyway. Please don't. Don't cheat, don't take the easy way, don't pass skynet's generic wank fodder off as your own. Don't feed your ideas into an engine and kid yourself on that you wrote something because it uses your own experiences. Have a go yourself.

If we do find out your story is AI generated, your story will be deleted and you may face an account ban.

Thanks.

Ps. We also don't accept stories translated from other languages using AI.

See I'm the opposite. I look at people wearing them and wonder when it became fashionable to give yourself a wedgie, lol.

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Twice now my story has been assigned to a moderator only to end up back in the queue after 3 days with no explanation

I know you all are busy but is an explanation to much to ask for?

This was explained in my post on the previous page.

Right, so I'm gonna do 2 winners, just because rainbows make me happy.

The first, I'm picking because I liked the picture best, and the second was a random number generator pick, so as random as it can be.

So well done BNW, and LuceDevlin.

You can either have the gold yourself, have the gold for someone else, or take the equivalent value in Lush Coins.

Let me know

(You can PM me if you're shy)

Lol, sorreeeee. It's been a manic week at Jen Towers.

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Stamps in the the room with a sign, a hammer, and two nails. Nails the sign onto the wall, points at it. stamps out.

Lush Stories publishes erotic stories. If you are thinking of submitting a story without any erotic elements in it, don't. Thank you. Sprite.

Wait, this chick still works here? She hasn't done any work since 2018.

Just to add to the above...

We now have nearly 6000 platinum and gold members, so although stories are still fast tracked, the wait times will range from between 1-4 days in general. This isn't a guarantee - things will fluctuate throughout the year, but I just want to reassure people there has been no change with the way the stories are received.

Obviously, story fast tracking is just one advantage of a platinum membership, and many premium members don't write stories. We are continually monitoring this. For information, we may occasionally allocate things to a mod to allow us to manage the main queue a little better, so you may see a story as allocated, which then shows at a later time as unallocated.

For non-premium members, the wait time will usually range from 5-10 days, but can creep up to 2 weeks at busy times.

Please don't be surprised if more stuff gets rejected back to authors to fix, instead of us fixing it ourselves. A good proofread or a simple spell check should catch the basic errors that we still often find.

Thanks.

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After all, you don't have to be a fantastic writer to be a good, well-balanced, thick-skinned moderator. 🙄😊

That's pretty much the main thing, lol.

Voting or commenting on the story also removes them.

Just to advise that these will be a little slower than usual for premium members whilst we work on the story backlog.

If you normally submit stories immediately they're approved, can we please ask that for now you give a few days grace to help us out.

Thanks.

Bump bump bump. I'll leave this up for another week or so. Tell all your friends who don't have memberships 😘

All these stories of sun and sea and the occasional alien, because why the heck not, has put me firmly into vacation mode. As always, the story quality on display was delightful to see. Before I get to the winners, I want to give a big thank you to the person who shortlisted this comp. We try to rotate this as much as we can, and it's a big undertaking given the number of entries, so my heartfelt thanks to them, and of course to all the judges who gave me their feedback.

Without further ado though, let me get to the winners. First and second place actually tied on points, but the winner placed first more often and therefore takes first place overall. So very well done to JP Sinister, with his beautifully told tale, Breath Becomes Air.

Coming a very, very close second, is Carlton St James, with his highly entertaining romp, Fucked In The Head.

And completing our leaderboard this time, we have the always exceptional Jaymal, with his saucy tale, Thank You, Paradise.

I'll be in touch with you all over the next day or two, regarding your prizes.

Very well done to everyone else who made the top ten for this competition, and to everyone who took part, read, commented, encouraged... and masturbated. Your efforts are all appreciated 😇

The full list of winners:

1. Breath Becomes Air by JP Sinister

2. Fucked In The Head by Carlton St James

3. Thank you, Paradise by Jaymal

4. Salt and Surrender by LostCoyote

5. The One Who Stayed by Obsolete_Fox

6. Let's Get Off by WannabeWordsmith

7. Munkholmen by Dogme

8. Faithful Enough by KatieTheWriter

9. Beneath by Sea48

10. Salt In The Wound, Honey On The Tongue by Peter_Ashford

A new competition will be announced shortly. Until then, if you're interested in winning a gold membership, check out this forum here.

Jen x

Hiya, it's really up to you. We accept stories of up to 10,000 words per chapter, so just split it up depending on the length and natural breaks. Or feel free to upload it as one chapter if it's less than 10,000.

Dust 'em off, load 'em up. It's June, so be proud and get your rainbow on. Let's decorate this place with a little colour and a little love.

If you change your avatar to something rainbow themed, post a pic of it here for a chance to win a gold membership for a year. If you already have gold or platinum, you can feel free to donate it to someone else, and Sprite might just send you nudes to reward your good deed.

Well, she might. Haven't asked her yet... 🤭

This competition is a bit random and the judge (probably me) is totally open to bribes, so feel free to leave a bribe alongside your picture. I like cookies. And diamonds. You don't have to bribe me. I may respect you more if you don't.

The closing date is sometime later in the month and I might randomly make up other rules as we go along. Who knows.

❤️🧡💛💚💙🩷💜

Ps. If you like to change your avatar a lot, that's fine. Just post one here and you'll be entered into the draw. You don't need to keep the same one up the whole month.

In the draw so far:

LL

Kimmi

Kis

Joe71

TG

Down4anything23

98expedition

Daphne

Susie

wxt55uk

JPSinister

Expressomarkie

pinkysurprise

mcduff

Henks

Luce - Winner!

Molls

BNW - Winner!

Roadrunner

RowanThorn

bluestocking

Pageturner2025

Burnttoacrisp

AC

Kee

Justnikki

Lynnette

KatieTheWriter

Shyexhibitionist

Teasing us by posting in the forum, but no picture yet

Georgia

CuriousAnnie

Rach

I think italics might work best for that sort of thing. I've seen stories before with journal entries or letters, and italics works well for it. Visually, I definitely prefer it to quotes for a longer piece.

Overnight oats with strawberries and mango.

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As I said in the other thread, it's not against lush rules. The law is aimed at protecting you from seeing things where you don't expect it, e.g to your email account, or a mainstream social media app. This is an adult erotica site. By continuing to use this site there is a reasonable expectation that you will be exposed to x-rated material. The site has provided tools to help you manage your own experience here.

I think this thread has run its course.

This is an adult sex-related site, and by using it, yes, you're probably going to be more exposed to x-rated things, than if you choose not to use it. The site has put tools in place for people to manage unwanted communications, should they wish to use them. There is no lush law against sending an x-rated pic to someone via the internal mail, solicited or otherwise, and I can't see that changing. Some don't like it, some do like it and others just don't care. Personally, I think it's fucking weird. As others have said, if you don't open with that in a bar, don't open with that here. But this is a sex site, and it will not even cross some people's minds that this wouldn't be allowed.

However, we will not tolerate harassment under any circumstances. If someone has been asked to stop and doesn't, this will be investigated and acted upon. You may not find out the outcome of this investigation, or you may not agree with it, but that doesn't mean nothing has happened.

But the first line of defence are the block tools available to you, which we ask all people to make use of, as with any other site on the internet. All the mods are members too and this site is meant to be fun. We don't want to start strictly policing every aspect of people's interactions. Yes, it would be nice if it wasn't a thing, however it would be naive to assume human nature is going to change any time soon.

If you report harassment, it will be investigated. Reports are monitored throughout the day by various mods. Discussions are had about any cases that cause concern, and any permanent bans go through admin, so there is an additional layer of scrutiny. All this reporting activity is logged, as are any outcomes.

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There used to be a 'Hide' option but I cannot see that now. If you edit the story it will be removed and placed into your drafts folder which meets your requirements. Should you then wish to relist it you would need to publish again (with a moderator note to say it actually hasn't changed you simply wanted to remove it for a while). Anyway someone else may have a better solution or find the 'Hide' option.

Yeah, editing and saving to your drafts is the way. It will retain scores and comments and it's not a hassle to deal with

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Do you now have to purchase an upgrade to change your forum signature? I used to know how to do that. I guess I could use a refresher. Thanks.

I don't think you need a subscription. See this thread for a how to