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| April 27, 2013
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Amazon Filters Gangbangs, Orgies and Breeding

Originally posted on One Handed Writers.

Amazon has now quietly made it harder for you to find the taboo kinks you want on its site, without notice to its readers, authors, publishers, or anyone.

They’ve simply quietly slapped a bunch of titles under an adult filter that, until recently, only had pseudo incest and “hand bras” (i.e. bare breasts hidden by hands). Now, readers are unable to find what they’re looking for with the basic search and hard working writers are worried about their livelihood.

Amazon now expects their millions of users to click ‘books’ or ‘kindle’ to search for their erotica, and while that might seem obvious to some, it’s not. Amazon operates in the dark with these moral policing decisions, so instead of doing what most other sites have and allowing a ‘safe search on/off’ option, they’ve just arbitrarily decided to “protect” people from smut.

It’s not right. It’s a company making moral decisions despite how it affects their bottom line.

And unfortunately, it’s nothing new. Hell, even Fifty Shades of Grey, a book I’ve seen everywhere, was suppressed from Amazon’s front page when it hit #1. Yet, FSoG is not adult filtered, despite its dubious consent, BDSM, and erotic content.

Amazon is a huge company, and when it makes large, sweeping changes like this, it threatens a lot of people’s income, which I think is very serious. It’s not just authors getting swept under the rug, either, but people who are spending their hard earned money on the site.

With over 86,000 titles in “Erotica” on Amazon, that means there’s twice as many erotic ebooks as scifi. Almost 3 times as many as Horror. Over 4 times as many as Drama.

However, Erotica gets no subgenres, no way of distinguishing itself. There’s no heat levels, no way of knowing if you’re getting contemporary, fantasy, or taboo. Why shouldn’t erotica have these things? Why should erotica readers be punished by being arbitrarily slapped with a hidden tag that so few know about? Why shouldn’t Amazon make it easier for readers to find what they want to read and purchase?

Romance has 120k titles, and 15 subgenres. Fantasy, with its 56k titles has 10 subgenres. Poetry, 43k titles, 11 subgenres. Sure, some things don’t lend so well to subgenres, but erotica is not one of them. Some people love BDSM erotica but the idea of taboo sex makes them sick. If you gave them a taboo incest breeding story, I’m sure they’d think you were sick. So why not introduce subgenres and let people who want BDSM find it easily? Or people who want spicy, erotic romance can easily search it instead of wondering if it’s hidden under erotica or romance.

Instead, it’s all about morality, and the fact that Amazon doesn’t want to be seen as ‘supporting’ erotica. Even giving the genre sub genre categories, like they do with romance, is seen as supporting the filthy, dirty things we write about.

Amazon is a corporation, and yes, they can make corporate decisions, but they are a business first and foremost. Please, please write to Amazon this week and tell them that you’re unhappy with how they handle erotica. Let them know that as an adult, you should have the right and ability to police your own settings, and your own computer, and that a safesearch filter would be a more transparent option for its customers.

Selena Kitt wrote an excellent blog the other day about how censorship affects her. Corporate censorship by Amazon hurts authors, but it hurts readers as well, and you should be offended that they don’t trust you enough to be able to find erotica easily.

Current list of filtered words:

Anything family related: Daddy, Dad, Father, Sister, Brother, Uncle, Family, Sibling(s)
Breeding Related: Breeding, Bred, Impregnation
Vulgar terms: Cum, Cock, Cunt, Pussy, Tits, Fuck, Clit, Sex,
Gangbang
Rough or Reluctant: Rough, Forced
Lactation related: Lactate, Lactating, Lactation
Other: Tentacle

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| April 6, 2013
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Guest Bloggers Wanted

Love erotica? Get hot when reading something taboo? Think that dark fantasy is the cat’s meow?

Wanna talk about it?

The Keep is looking for erotica guest bloggers, especially those that love fantasy / scifi erotica or taboo smut.

To apply to be a guest blogger, please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

*Blog posts should be original and can be posted as an excerpt on your own site with a link back to the full post. You will have 2-3 sentances as a bio which can include a link to your website, twitter, facebook, etc. We have the right to refuse any blog post for any reason.*

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| April 5, 2013
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Erotica for Men

Originally Posted on One Handed Writers.

It’s a common misconception that only women read erotica, that men don’t bother with it. After all, we’re told from a young age that men are ‘visual creatures’. Isn’t that on every page in every Cosmo?

Cock Worshipping Goddess

Cock Worshipping Goddess is about a woman who would give it all up just for a chance to worship one demon’s cock.

But it’s not true. In fact, there’s not been a single respondent to our survey about what people like in erotica, that has identified as female. Sure, it’s a small sampling of the millions of readers out there, but it’s enough to show that yea, men read erotica. Lots of them. And you know what they like? Romance. M/f/M threesomes. F/m/F threesomes. Incest. Plotlines.

There’s nothing weird at all about this, or about your own desires. People – men and women – have lots in common. Having erotica, and sexual stimulation as a sexual interest can only be good for all parties involved!

It’s hard to remember that men read it, though, because when we look through places like Goodreads and Kindleboards, we’re bombarded with female names talking about erotica. I don’t doubt some of those are men who are embarrassed to like such a “feminine thing”, but since when is liking sex feminine?

Dragon's Lair

Dragon’s Lair features Anjasa, a huge slut, worshipping a Dragonkin’s huge cock.

There’s a taboo about men who read anything that’s popular with women, though, so it makes sense why they’d feel like they’d have to hide. Plenty of male authors, after all, have female pen names to better fit in with their readership. People feel more comfortable, allegedly, reading erotica written by a woman. It gets even more tangly with the romance genre, as that’s so inundated with female readers and writers, but plenty of men like it too. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a big, burly man getting a hard-on for a sweet heroine and her adoring hero.

It’s all rather silly to me. This is such a great opportunity for men and women to really bond on an emotional and sexual level. Sure, we have visual porn that we can watch together as a couple, but erotica stimulates us in different ways.

It encourages verbal dialogue, firstly. If you want to learn how to dirty talk, you’re better off reading a book than watching a porn. Want to learn how to really set your partner on fire with a dirty text? Erotica! Want to know how to make them squirm during phone sex? Well, smut has some great ideas for that!

Need a way to spice up a snow storm or a rainy day during a vacation? Read each other passages from an erotic novel. A good one! Remember, it’s okay to be embarrassed and laugh, though.

In the end, it’s just one of those things that men and women ultimately have in common that we ignore. I hope that more men come out of the wood-works and talk about how much they love good erotica, and how much they love their partners reading it and fucking them!

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| April 3, 2013
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Does Writing Erotica Turn You On?

Originally Posted on One Handed Writers under “Does Writing Erotica Make You Aroused?”.

A lot of people have asked if our writing gets us hot.

Well, I wrote not too long ago about how one scene led to some of the best sex I’ve ever had, but I have to say that, as a standard?

Yes. Absolutely. If it doesn’t arouse me, how can I expect it to touch and toy with the arousal of the reader? If something doesn’t get me hot, then I’m doing something wrong, and that means I have to go back in and capture that feeling of sensational lust, of exquisite pain and pleasure, of butterflies in the stomach and a passionate encounter.

The Lost Lagoon

Writing taboo erotica, like The Lost Lagoon, always turns me on.

I write what turns me on because I know it’ll make others hot as well. I want to be able to connect with others on that deep, personal level where I can make their fantasies come true. Where I can make them want my characters to take it just one step further, and when it finally happens, they can moan out their delight.

Whether it’s fantasy, scifi, or contemporary it doesn’t matter. Readers need to be able to connect with the characters sexually. This is why what we like is so subjective, because it plays into our own biases, wants, needs, and turn-ons, and it’s why I write what gets me hot. There are some fetishes I don’t understand, or that don’t do anything for me, and so I’ll leave those to the experts.

Personally, reluctance gets me hot. I love it when a woman wants a man so bad, but she’s stuck because of societal expectations, because she doesn’t want to be a slut, because she’s not sure if this is what a good person does or because she knows it isn’t. Just the amount of passion and the emotional wallop you get is incredible to me, and it never fails to turn me on.

A Son's Devotion

A reluctant mother and a persistent son fight to find a balance for their lust in A Son’s Devotion.

Our most recent publication, A Son’s Devotion, has a lot of these themes. It’s about an (adopted) son that has unnatural feelings for his mother. He can’t help it – she’s a beautiful, elven woman who prances about in tight, revealing clothes. She has such large breasts and a shapely rear, and there’s no other woman that compares to her for him.

After he gets dumped on her doorstep after a bender, she can’t leave him to his own devices and promises to care for him, as long as he gets his life back together. It’s certainly not her fault that he’s so handsome and young, that she catches a glimpse of him changing. How can she be blamed when he just keeps pushing her for more, especially when she’s so lonely?

It’s gritty, and messed up. Their relationship is twisted, and they try to cope with their unnatural love in different manners. They’re both unearthly gorgeous, but their feelings for one another are very grounded in reality.

Tiffany's Daddy

Tiffany can’t say no to her daddy when he catches her masturbating.

Everyone knows about lust, and loneliness, and intimacy, and making bad choices in the heat of the moment. With high fantasy erotica, it’s even easier to crave the taboo, because even though it’s relatable, it’s separate from reality. There’s no negative feelings, no shame. It leaves the reader with just the raw emotion and sensuality of a woman saying no to her son, even though she doesn’t mean it. The need of a man who doesn’t care, who knows she wants it to and will help her get over her issues.

The theme of reluctance, of taboo and wrongness is very strong throughout the entire novella, and I can proudly say that we had some fantastic sex after (and during!) writing it. After all, what makes for better dirty pillow talk than discussing what you want to see next in the story?

It makes me understand why there’s a 50 Shades sex toy line, because when you connect on such a level with the characters, and the scenes in a book, it gets into your head. It toys with your fantasies and your emotions, and it makes you want to experience them more. If we can make you feel the same, our job is well done!

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| April 2, 2013
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Dark, Taboo Romance

Originally Posted on One Handed Writers as “Valentine’s”.

I’ve never been one to celebrate Valentine’s. I never really saw the point, and from a feminist perspective, I always found it offensive in how it upheld so many stereotypes about women, and men, and how they interact in relationships.

I just don’t buy this idea that women are only interested in having sex with their partner in exchange for material goods, or that men have to take their partner to an expensive, crowded restaurant on one of the busiest days of the year. It’s a societal expectation, however, and people do like that.

Amy's Innocence Pt 1

A sweet, yet somewhat twisted, romance.

I’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that I’m not normal, and that my views on relationships are not normal.

That’s why I don’t feel comfortable writing romance. I can’t empathize with it. For me, relationships are so much more complicated than the standard plot line, and I want to explore that. Romance that isn’t romantic, that isn’t following a prescribed idea of what people want is what arouses and stimulates me.

Don’t get me wrong, people do want their romance to follow certain standards, and there’s nothing wrong with expecting a nice boy meets girl, boy and girl face trials and tribulations, and in the end love conquers all. I just can’t do that plotline justice. I can’t engage readers like that.

Sure I still love seduction. Sure, I love having my characters desire, need and love one another, to feel that there’s something special between them. For there to be this magical pull that keeps bringing them closer.

Instead of exploring that in a romance novel, though, I focus on things that I’m good at. Relationships that are weird and sometimes a bit unbelievable. Relationships that start with sex and end with love, or hate, or indifference. Relationships where they fuck up the order and still manage to get through, changed and different.

Amy's Innocence Pt 2

May/December Erotica always gets me hot, like in the Amy’s Innocence series.

The most romantic story I’ve written to date, I’ve been saving to release for Valentine’s Day. It’s about an innocent farm girl that stumbles upon a rugged ex-military man in the forest near her home, and everything screams at her to want to be touched. All that pent up emotion, that sexuality that she’d never had an outlet for in her isolated life just boils to the surface and makes her need him. She’s an adult that has never been around an adult man that wasn’t a relative, and her body needs him.

Some people wouldn’t term that romantic, but for me, the process of two people finding one another and being able to help one another through a time of intense loneliness is beautiful and romantic in its own way. Sex is a facet of life, something most people crave just like they crave food and shelter. It’s on the lowest tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

So I don’t think there always needs to be this preamble, this lengthy seduction and courting session. Instead, I just let my characters do what comes natural to them. They fuck on the forest floor because there’s nowhere else they can go, and in the end, they have their happily ever after.

This is what my partner and I are good at, and we’ll leave the true romance to people who can fulfill that niche. We’ll stick to the strange relationships that seem almost unbelievable when written down but happens all the time in the real world.

After all, the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense!

Amy’s Innocence is only .99 cents for this week, if you want to explore a less traditional and more erotic coming of age romance. Who doesn’t love a pale little redhead losing her virginity to a strong military man, I ask you!

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| April 1, 2013
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Cock Worship

Originally Posted on One Handed Writers.

I’ve been thinking about cock worship quite a lot lately, though much of what I’ll say will apply to you pussy or breast worship fans too.

Worship is something I’ve always felt a little too shy to do, both in real life and in writing. It always seemed that it would come off as really cheesy and porny, over the top and unrealistic.

Cock Worshipping Goddess

Our second exploration of erotica dedicated to cock worship.

Then I tried writing it! My partner and I wrote a very delicious, very scandalous short to cheer him up after a long, hard week. It was all about him. Four gorgeous women, all desirous of him, begging for their chance to be fucked, lavishing his cock with such diligent affection.

After having the best sex we’d had in years, we agreed that the short went well.

So then we launched into a longer series, a novella where the central kink was cock worship, and it was over the top and absolute fantasy, and it was so hot. I was completely blown away not only by how well it worked for him, but by how well it worked for me!

I loved it! It was a chance to shed my inhibitions and try something out of my comfort zone, and I feel like I’ve grown more as a writer in the last week than I have in the last month. Now I’m hungry for more, desperate to find out what else there is to learn about cock worship in specific, and male sexual tastes in general.

When you think of it and boil it down, who wouldn’t want to feel like they’re so mind blowing it makes others weak in the knees and light in the head? Who wouldn’t want their body licked and sucked and treated so well, especially the part that can feel those sensations so much more acutely?

Dragon's Lair

The Dragonkin’s cock is so big, Anjasa can’t help but bow before him and praise him in the only way she knows how.

Who wouldn’t want every square inch of their sex explored by their loving, doting partner who just selflessly desires that you lay back and enjoy while they get off on giving praise to your sexy body? To feel their hands and mouth and tongue doting upon you, viscous saliva from deep in their throat slickening and lubricating your skin so that all you can feel is the exquisite dedication of your lover?

It makes sense to me now, and it didn’t come off as porny or fake at all. It was quite authentic, and real–just like the act itself we did in the privacy of our own bedroom–and now I just want to keep experimenting with other fetishes that I’ve felt were out of my reach just to challenge myself.

Have you read a really good book with some amazing cock (or breast/pussy) worship scenes? Link it in the comments!

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| February 14, 2013
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Cock Worship

Just in time for Valentine’s Day! I forgot to tell everyone that I blogged about Cock Worship over on One Handed Writers:

When you think of it and boil it down, who wouldn’t want to feel like they’re so mind blowing it makes others weak in the knees and light in the head? Who wouldn’t want their body licked and sucked and treated so well, especially the part that can feel those sensations so much more acutely?

Who wouldn’t want every square inch of their sex explored by their loving, doting partner who just selflessly desires that you lay back and enjoy while they get off on giving praise to your sexy body? To feel their hands and mouth and tongue doting upon you, viscous saliva from deep in their throat slickening and lubricating your skin so that all you can feel is the exquisite dedication of your lover?

Read the rest of it here!

We also released Amy’s Innocence – Part 2. First time pain, second time pleasure!

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| December 5, 2012
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Darknest

I sincerely apologize for the lack of activity. Once more, life has snuck up on me and began eating all of my time.

This time it was because my partner and I have recently taken over as owners and admins of Darknest Fantasy Erotica, a forum website dedicated to erotic art and stories, predominantly based around MMORPGs. If you’re interested in joining, or are already a member, we’d love for you to take a look around. We’re currently taking suggestions on the forums, through PMs, or through emails at darknest@jmkeep.com

I have posts ready, I just need to edit them so that they’re fit for your consumption. Until then, come chat with me on Darknest!

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| October 29, 2012
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Taboo Erotica

Trigger warning – sexualized violence (consensual and non)

I’ve been exploring my sexuality since I was a six year old girl, when I first stumbled upon my father’s Playboys. The first thing I did when I got the Internet was start looking up pornography – specifically hentai, since I loved Sailor Moon at the time. I also read a lot – fiction and non-fiction – that focused frequently on taboo topics – V.C. Andrews is filed under 12+ in my local book stores. I was fascinated by the sex trade, sexual slavery, rape, incest, and sexual deviance as a whole.

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| October 16, 2012
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Anastasia Steele – Mary Sue

Anastasia Steele is a much talked about character. She is the lead female protagonist of the popular 50 Shades of Grey, and people absolutely love calling her a Mary Sue.

You might not like her, or understand what Christian Grey sees in her, or feels that something in 50 Shades of Grey wasn’t really what you wanted it to be. You might find it hard to empathize or sympathize with her, or that her story is hard to believe. But none of that makes Anastasia Steele a Mary Sue.

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