Over at SoFurry, about three days ago, they changed their acceptable use policy, such that text content (stories, journals, RP sessions) must not include situations where minors - defined as anyone under 18 - are involved in sexual situations. Doesn’t matter if you’ve been writing about a furry species that only lives for 20 years, and is considered an adult at age 5, , or local laws and traditions in your story allow marriage at 12 (which, incidentally was legal in many real life countries until quite recently), or you have any other story-based logic which permits sexually active young ones. If the characters are at all ‘human like’, in other words, anthropomorphic, they can’t be involved in sex until they are 18.
The good news is, they recognize this is a major change, and that a lot of previously acceptable content will need to be taken down or edited to resolve the issue. And they are not being mean about it, at least to me. At first, they wanted people to take down or revise that stuff within three days of the new AUP being posted. Calmer heads have apparently recognized their editing process makes that impossible, if you have more that a handful of flagged stories. So when an admin contacted me about a sampling of chapter blocks from Swiss Mix, The Secret, and others I had posted there, they merely moved the flagged content to ‘drafts’ and gave me a full six months to either delete them myself, or edit and repost in an acceptable form.
Honestly, I can’t really blame them, even though I feel that writing fictional sex stories is no different than writing about crime, war, or shady politics. It should not be treated like a real-world crime, when no real-world people are involved. But in the lawsuit-happy world we live in, they have to cover their own butts.
My response to the AUP change was to request my account there and all content should be deleted, since most of what I posted there over the last ten years or so violates the new AUP, though it was fine until this change. Swiss Mix and the like can not be rewritten to make every sexually active character be over 18.
(Edit: They processed deleting my account shortly after I posted this journal entry.)
Inkbunny will now be the only place where those stories can be found. However, I do not plan to write much more of thar class of furry stories. I am struggling to finish the last Alpha Rivals chapter, and I may write a few brief epilogues for Swiss Mix, The Secret, and other stories, just to provide some closure. But that will be it, for me.
My Die Role series is going to get moved to a new account, where everything I post will be participants who are 18 or older. I’ve been planning on severely changing the sorts of stories I will write and take commissions or requests for. It is time to start a new chapter in my creative efforts.
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