alt.sex.stories

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alt.sex.stories is a Usenet newsgroup for erotic stories created on May 7, 1992, by Tim Pierce as an alternative to pre-existing alt erotica newsgroups.^{[1][better source needed]} The group was initially unmoderated, a feature that was not shared by some of the other Usenet or altnet newsgroups. This feature allowed for greater user freedom.

Site history[]

alt.sex.stories.moderated[]

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In early 1997 a moderated version of alt.sex.stories was created due to an increasing number of posts by "various pay services, scam artists, and bots".^{[citation needed]} This moderated newsgroup (ASSM) has always operated by cross-posting all approved stories to alt.sex.stories, and is not simply a filtered version of the unmoderated group, rather, all stories posted to ASSM were specifically submitted there.

Currently the day-to-day operations and general direction of ASSM is overseen by the Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository (ASSTR), which coordinates a group of volunteers to moderate the newsgroup using a web-based voting system. ASSTR also hosts an archive of the newsgroup, and a mirror of the Nifty Erotic Stories Archive (gay). ASSM is one of the few remaining active groups in the alt.sex.* hierarchy.

Due to competition from web-based erotica sites and communities, the volume of stories posted to ASSM (and thus to alt.sex.stories) had dropped considerably by 2006, although the group is still actively moderated.

Notable authors[]

Alt.sex.stories is notable for assisting in the launch of several notable authors of erotica such as Elf Sternberg^{[citation needed]} and Mary Anne Mohanraj.^[2][3]

Story codes[]

Because of the large volume of stories posted, a set of codes to describe the story content was developed.^[4] Writers were encouraged to include these story codes in the title of their stories.

Notes[]

Further reading[]

• "Things you should know: A help file for alt.sex.stories and related groups" by Seurat (version 3; Dec 1998)
• The Alt.Sex.Stories.* Hierarchy and Related Groups FAQ (version 2.03; Jun 19, 2000) by Apuleius. See especially section 2, a history of erotic stories on usenet.
• Alt.sex.stories - A Subculture by Ole Joe (version 15; Nov 1998).
• alt.sex.stories Hall of Fame: Commentary on beloved authors

External links[]

• Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository – free, non-profit collection of over 450,000 works of erotic literature, home to over 4000 authors, and host of the "Alt.Sex.Stories.Moderated archive". Archived from the original on 2000-09-17. Retrieved 2005-02-13.
• Sex Stories on the Internet: The First Twenty or so Years – essay by "H. Jekyll"