When creating or searching for a story, two of the categories used to sort the stories are “gender” and “orientation.” Currently, the only options for these are male and female for gender, and straight, gay, and lesbian for orientation. This is reductive and makes it hard to categorize some stories.
I propose the following categories be added for gender and orientation, in addition to keeping the existing ones:
Gender:
-Other
-Multiple
-Unspecified
Orientation:
-Bisexual
-Unspecified
The reasons for these new categories are explained below.
“Unspecified” should be an option for both gender and orientation because some stories, mostly those written in second person, do not specify any gender or orientation since they’re intended as self insert stories any reader can enjoy. Furthermore, it could also be used for the orientation category in stories where one person gains weight alone without their orientation ever being brought up.
“Other” should be an option for gender in case a story involves a nonbinary character.
“Multiple” should be an option for gender in case a story involves people of different genders with equal focus placed on them. For instance, a story about a straight couple mutual gaining could be categorized as “straight multiple.”
“Bisexual” should be added as an orientation option for stories where there is M/F content in addition to M/M and/or F/F content.
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