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You like Literotica for the same reasons I do, and your criticisms are similar, too. One thing I would add about the voting system, though, is that I frequently find myself wanting to give a 4.5 or 3.5 to a story and am forced to grade either slightly higher or lower than I feel is fair; therefore, I feel that a scale of 1 to 10 would be more accurate.

Cheers,

Lalenya :^)

Never have a found such a more flexible site, where I can post my creations, ask the opinions of my writing brothers and sisters on any questions, and just ask about anything no matter how intelluctual or how stupid and still meet guys and have wild sex! It's an awesome site, and your's was an awesome review to bring it out so clearly. Thanx!

I found this to be a very detailed and helpful review of Literotica, which could easily be used in order to convince someone to try out this site. I agree with the points regarding the facilitation of accessiblity and flexibility concerning the membership, available options and features, as opposed to the majority of other adult oriented sites which impose endless restrictions. This is what makes Literotica, above all else, more appealing and loyal towards its members.

I have been a Literotica Reader for years and your article was well put. I had not been round but occasionally in recent years past as I was very involved in work and was there 45-70 hours per week and do Sacred Harp FASOLA singings on a lot of weekends. Had to retire with Age Related Memory Loss, and some health issues that keep me mostly home. So I did search for some more classy porn and came back to here and also found LUSH Stories which really lit the fire in me for stories of the male/male genre but bondage and humiliation also excite me. I favorited one of your stories I read today and found it was delightful. I am going to peruse more of your works and see if I find more of your stories that "tickle my erotic fancy". Much Thanks

i agree that this sight is a place to call home i have spent many hours

reading the most wonderful stories. If some of the stuff i have read might make a

movie or two but thanks fore the great reads.

4banger

1. The site is in SERIOUS need of updating. The format screams 1998.

2. The site organization needs to be re-formatted. A lot of information is difficult to find

3. A better job needs to be done weeding out stories that are crap.

4. The volunteer editors list needs to be purged. I've contacted at least 20 editors with only two replies. Get rid of the editors that don't want to edit.

5. Update links

Literotica, like every site, has both strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately, your review disregards some of Literotica's most glaring weaknesses and contains internal contradictions which reduce the credibility of the entire review.

While it is far easier to find the stories which interest you on Literotica than some other sites (ASSTR, for example), you vastly overstate the ease of finding stories which match your particular interests. Unlike other sites, Literotica limits the story descriptions to a single line, and recommends that the length of the description vary inversely with the length of the title. The result of this limitation is that many stories have descriptions that are all but useless, and many more have descriptions that are inadequate. Sites which allow longer descriptions tend to have much more informative descriptions. Literotica's tag system should provide a powerful and flexible mechanism for easily finding stories on a given subject, but the tags have been so poorly managed that they create unnecessary frustration. Stories about lesbian domination, to use your example, might be tagged "lesbian d/s" or "lesbian bdsm". While there are subtle distinctions between those two, there are many other tags that contain meaningless differences, such as "loving wife" and "loving wives". Stories about sex between mothers and sons will typically have only one or two of at least six interchangeable tags: "mom/son", "mother son", "mother son incest", "mother son sex", "mother/son", and "mother and son". If one wants stories about sons dominating their mothers, it becomes even more complex because you have to combine those tags with one or more of (a) at least four tags indicating otherwise unspecified dominance & submission, (b) at least five tags indicating dominant male characters, or (c) at least six tags indicating submissive female characters. The end result is a system that makes it unnecessarily frustrating to find stories based on subject matter.

It is also quite curious that in one paragraph you complain about sites that "expect you to label your story in one genre or another allowing for very little freedom", but only a couple of paragraphs later praise Literotica for giving you "the freedom to place our stories in any area we choose as long as its main theme goes along with the genre we select". Literotica does force you to choose one category, and other sites that do the same allow multiple thematic elements in their stories. Whether requiring a story to be placed in a single genre or category is a strength or a weakness can be argued either way, but you can't criticize other sites for forcing that choice without applying the same criticism to Literotica.