What is SH's restriction on smut?

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Pornographic stories - These are content that are basically porn without a plot. This is referring to the whole story, not a chapter or 50% of your story.

Every porn story on scribble

 

[Deleted member 57675]

Alice, I'm not sure, but I think Jemini bit you in your sleep. Take notice of the following symptoms. Paragraphs in your replies keep increasing and become longer, all your replies look the same, like a wall of text, and you reply to someone who didn't ask you anything. Even if it's one symptom that you notice, you are in dire need of help.

As we all know, there is only one cure for this terrible disease. It's to chill. Before it's too late, ask Paul(the most chill eldritch being on SHF) to help you chill before your Jeminification ends.

Trust me Sailus, that's just Alice. Few others used to do it too. Regardless of Jeminification lol.

 

[Premier]

Every porn story on scribble

It’s a super low bar to clear. “I’m here to fix the washing machine” clears this bar.

As for Non-con. It is against the rules but a non-con story has been on trending for like a month so I don’t know if the rules are really enforced much.

 

[Succubiome]

The majority of my stories definitely include noncon and/or dubcon in them-- but they don't encourage it.

I had assumed that's allowed, partially because of the wording of the rule (Encouraging Non-Consensual Sexual Content - These are stories that are encouraging non-consensual sexual acts. Your story cannot be encouraging non-consensual sex acts."), and partially because the Rape tag exists.

 

[Cipiteca396]

Oh hey, this thread is a year and a month old. Too bad it didn't get necroed on its birthday so we could celebrate properly.

 

[AliceShiki]

As for Non-con. It is against the rules but a non-con story has been on trending for like a month so I don’t know if the rules are really enforced much

The majority of my stories definitely include noncon and/or dubcon in them-- but they don't encourage it.

I had assumed that's allowed, partially because of the wording of the rule (Encouraging Non-Consensual Sexual Content - These are stories that are encouraging non-consensual sexual acts. Your story cannot be encouraging non-consensual sex acts."), and partially because the Rape tag exists.

As Succubiome said, non-con is allowed. You just can't encourage it.

 

[Premier]

As Succubiome said, non-con is allowed. You just can't encourage it.

I mean if that's how it is meant to be taken then it's vague enough it's like the "No plot" rule. Unless you're explicitly going against the rule, you can probably weasel out of it.

 

[LunaSoltaer]

I mean if that's how it is meant to be taken then it's vague enough it's like the "No plot" rule. Unless you're explicitly going against the rule, you can probably weasel out of it.

The real fun is when you start evaluating "May cause" and how it implies you have control over other people.

I've found that a best-effort attempt to stay in guidelines and reviewing them whenever anything risque is to be posted goes a long way. It's a little nod that you've at least considered your community, and having your on the edge chapters in isolation presumably also helps resilience of your story to dissenting interpretations, but I've never seen whether that actually works.

People like when you're considerate, or something. Also it may help to consider "legal to write about" vs "legal to actually do" (hint: all fantasy battles massively fail the latter classification)

 

[AliceShiki]

I mean if that's how it is meant to be taken then it's vague enough it's like the "No plot" rule. Unless you're explicitly going against the rule, you can probably weasel out of it.

The rule is probably more of a legal necessity than anything.

So yes, unless you explicitly go against it, it's probably fine... Probably.