Out of everyone in the forum, I'm probably the person with the most widely-known 'issue' with the lifestyle, namely that I have been known to stop participating, deleting all my writing and collected images, and walk away from BDSM altogether.

Since I have that perspective, I should probably say something here, lest you think I am cowardly shrinking to the background, which I guess I was.

Back when I started, I decided the age group I would put my victims in would not defy the bar of sixteen. I have been in high school and lusted brainlessly after fourteen-year-old freshmen girls, so I'm aware that girls can be sexually aware and active at that age... but at the time I felt like that, I was a child myself.

It doesn't disturb me to see people write about the rape of a fourteen year old as it does to see someone want to see the planning of such a thing, the plotting. I write evil, vile characters, but I *won't* give someone a blueprint for crime. For instance, Kallie's recent story, Trust & Toilets, I abandoned after finding out the victim was a) 15 and b) way too gullible for me to enjoy. Kallie writes some pretty hardcore stuff whens he's in the mood, and I don't really have a problem with that. Some of her stuff I love. Some of her stuff I don't read. Easy enough. <g>

I had considered writing this story as an exercise-- learning how to compromise what a reader wants without having to do what I personally (and Cleo, too) consider an evil-- writing about a game plan to rape a fourteen year old girl. I have a niece that age; it would worry me that someone like her, someone I don't know, might suffer because of my story. Since my 'sacrifice porn to Jesus" stint, I have grown increasingly insistent on making certain that the reader identifies with the victim, as well as the attacker(s).

If I were to write this story, I would make the victim the focus of the story, let her wonder how they pulled it off, and tell it almost entirely from her miserable, unhappy perspective. I think the stories I am most uncomfortable with are entirely misogynistic and have no empathy for the victim's plight or contain any of her mental process.

And I think I'd make her eighteen-- a Chinese exchange student with a small, pert body for sirthumper, without sacrificing my own ethics.

My two cents, folks. Spend 'em both in one place!