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Not really a tag question, but I didn't want to make a new thread . . . Can you "unpublish" a story and revert it back to a "draft" even if you accidentally hit "published"? Thank you.

Fair enough. I did take the original conversation off on a tangent. It is just one that greatly interests me and is foundation to the question of this thread. Thank you for the civil, intelligent and friendly conversation.

Here is the official story idea link.

True, science requires faith. One has to trust in one's mental abilities, the abilities of others, and that there is such things as laws of logic. You lost me. I am arguing the scientific method cannot account for the presuppositions required to do science. I think we might have two different...

Half the reason for the story is to rebel against the demand of always trying to write the perfect sex scene.

Sounds like faith. How does the scientific method account for the laws of logic, such as the law of non-contradiction? Which is a required presupposition in order to have, and use, the scientific method correctly.

Again, I would strongly disagree. Who determines if an axiom is an axiom? Or can anyone simply declare a statement to be an axiom and it most be universally accepted? Everything you have listed is not self-evident. Again, this is a philosophical task not a scientific one. How do you know this...

Actiaeon, 1) Thank you for taking all the time and thought with your epistle! It was a very interesting read. 2) If I may ask, what is your general area of academic background? (I'm just curious, of course you don't have to answer if you don't want.) 3) I would guess you're still against...

If I may shamelessly illustrate the problem of writing sex scenes in two of my stories: 1) This is one of the best romantic chapters (from my Catwoman story) I have written, in my opinion. However, I loathed writing the sex scene after it, since the story demanded it be very tender and normal...

What are you referring to in 110 AD? I did a quick search of the Apostolic Fathers and Ignatius mentions marriage, but there is hardly any agreement to his date. Officially defined, true, but the teaching goes way back to the patristic period. See Augustine's De bono coniugali. My contention...

I would disagree with this statement, historically, at least for marriage in the West during the Christian era.

When gene.sis speaks about chyoa there can only be silent awe as pure wisdom descends to us mere mortals from on high.

I think these two things might go together, at least for me. Writing a realistic normal sex scene is boring because there is very little to work with. Again, I love the analogy of eating a sandwich. Writing about it is just boring, but eating a real sandwich is very satisfying. Same thing with...

Ahh, that is what I thought. Thank you! So it is better to tag individual chapters. But should I tag more then one chapter with the same tag? For example, if I have two different spanking scenes, should each chapter receive a "spanking" tag?

Is there any difference and/or advance to placing a tag in a particular chapter as oppose to placing all the story's tags in the first chapter? Thank you.

First, thank you for the answer, your thoughts are always greatly appreciated. Your first answer, however, is the problem. If morality is based on individual opinion then it has no authority, save from a totalitarian state. What follows after such a statement is therefore also optional. I don't...

Very interesting. A few questions about your statement, which is quite common this day and age, if I may . . . 1) Is your statement an universal axiom that everyone must obey? 2) If so, by what objective standard did you receive this law? 3) Even if we grant your exceptions (can't restrict the...

Because it is all the other stuff that goes with it, let alone the implanted desire to reproduce.

Me, a troll? Never. (I got the voodoo mahn.)

A while back I was thinking of writing a humorous story of a psychologist that counsels superheroes with bad sex lives. Part of the motivation was a rebellion against the pressure to write ever sex scene in erotic as the ultimate experience.