I don't call it "self-censorship," AlexG.  I call it "editing." 

But seriously, there are some things I just don't do.  You might notice that in my stories, people don't curse or take the Lord's name in vain.  Y'see, back in the day when Little Jimmy's folks were building a new house, Little Jimmy was fiddling around with letters and making nonsense words at random.

Then he not very prudently scrawled one on the cinder blocks making the house's crawlspace. 

Jimmy's dad saw this, went nuclear, and took a paint stirring stick against Li'l Jimmy's backside.

Later on, Jimmy said it out loud.  On purpose.  To his MOTHER.  She gave him the same thing.

Big Jimmy's been a VERY clean mouthed chap after that. 

And as far as sex, well... I think I've spoken about that elsewhere. 

But just for the record, the JimmyDimples rules of writing say:  If I can't show it to the MPAA, or my students, or my pastor... I can't show it.

I know, it may seem unrealistic at times when I'm writing stories including, oh, I dunno, a motorcycle gang... but I think I can get away with it.

Absolutely. For me it's that awkward balance of trying to grapple with larger philosophical/emotional ideas while knowing full well that the majority of readers are interfacing with it as fetish fiction. There are times when something would be thematically or emotionally appropriate in a specific context, for example two 13-year-olds experimenting with sex for the first time, but would not be appropriate for the fetish audience. For this reason, I avoid sexually-compromising situations with younger characters and rape scenes with older characters. In my writing both here and generally, I try not to play into stereotypes too much.
This is actually a big part of what's tying up my current project. The story brought itself to a head at a place I wasn't comfortable taking it.

I can only reiterate what I said before in another thread:

Source: Re: warning labels!


The moderators simply can't be expected to read every single post to make certain that it's kosher, we just don't have the time to do it all on our own.  That's where all of you come in, if you see something that's out of line, then for goodness sake report it - don't just sit on your upholstered duffs and say nothing, instead speak up by reporting it to the moderators.

Second, have you made the effort to pointedly bring this up to Lingster?  I mean, with a PM?  If not, then why not?  Realize, that's the only way to be certain that what's going on over at Brawna has been brought to his full attention.

I am inclined to agree with CaptMalcomReynolds. .. and while people might say "oh, there's no sexual content"... well, that's not really an excuse given that it's fetishistic writing and hence has the intention to arouse people with our particular kink... but I've beat that drum plenty.

Writing wise, I don't really self-censor... at least, I've never felt the need.