Maybe We Should / Non-Consent

30 Mar, 2025

Content Warning: Discussions of rape as a story trope

I’m currently working on a story for the ‘On The Job’ story event over on Literotica, which asks people to write stories that take place entirely in the workplace. I originally began outlining a story about a university professor and his student, who has a gay awakening after discovering the works of James Baldwin and Philippe Besson, but as I was outlining it I realised that it’s much more than a short story and therefore probably not something I’ll be able to write in time for this event. (Also, I should say, probably not something that I just want to give away for free, if I do write it.)

So I started a second story, about a hotel cleaner who discovers some sex toys in a room and then has an encounter with the owner of said toys when he’s discovered with his pants around his ankles. I’m enjoying it, and I think it’s good, but it’s slipped into non-consent/reluctance territory and I realised that this isn’t a genre I’m overly familiar with. And it’s very much not a genre that I want to get wrong.

So I went to Literotica and started browsing stories in that category.¹ As anybody who has trawled through free story archives knows, it can be hard to find the really good stuff - especially if, like me, you really value quality of prose above all else when you’re reading. I wanted to find good NC/R stories to learn from, to see how good writers handle this topic and make it sexy without straying into “actually rape victims are asking for it” or, you know, that old Todd Akin thing of “if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” (which was about post-rape pregnancy specifically, but I’ve seen people extend it to the idea of women feeling pleasure when being stimulated against their will).

There’s a lot of not-great stories to sift through, but I definitely found some good examples and some examples of what not to do. But I also stumbled across one of the best stories I’ve read on Literotica in a long time, and I wanted to share it. It’s a three-part story, presumably with more to come, about a woman being held captive by aliens during some sort of intergalactic war, and the way her captors approach questioning her. (Hint: it’s sex.) It’s called Imprisoned At Her Pleasure by Jekyll_Inside, and it’s fantastic.

And now that I’ve done my reading for the morning, I’m going to make another cup of tea and go back to my little story about a man being fucked in a hotel room.