LOVE IN DARK SETTINGS ¶ Site Content Label for Parents, Guardians, and Visitors Who Control Their Own Reading Matter

This page was updated in July 2011.

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The domain is intended for people who are permitted to read fiction and nonfiction in the adult section of their public library. Access to the domain by young children is not advised.

The sections below offer information on online content that may be problematic for some readers. You may also contact Dusk Peterson with more specific queries about content.

Fiction e-books and online fiction

In many of the stories, the characters must undergo hardship and sometimes transformation before they are able to struggle their way out of the darkness that they find themselves in. Some of the stories deal with the topics of abuse, death, or voluntary submission. All of the stories feature love or respect, though sometimes it takes a while to get there.

Information on specific fiction series can be found below.

Skip directly to the series you're interested in: Darkling Plain | The Eternal Dungeon | Holiday Gift Fic | Leather in Lawnville | Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels | Life Prison | Loren's Lashes | Master/Other | Michael's House | Princeling | The Three Lands | Unmasked | Waterman.
 

The Sweet Suffering e-book contains stories from these series: Princeling | Darkling Plain | Holiday Gift Fic | Master/Other.

The Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers e-book contains stories from these series: Loren's Lashes | Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels | Leather in Lawnville.

Darkling Plain.

This series is suitable for teenagers and adults. Parental guidance is helpful, because the stories may address serious topics.

These stories primarily focus on friendships and romantic relationships. These stories contain no onscreen sex, and most violence is offscreen. However, the stories may contain brief violence or occasional fantasy-world profanity.

The Three Lands.
Princeling.
Holiday Gift Fic.

These series are suitable for older teenagers and adults. Parental guidance is helpful, because the stories may address serious topics.

The series primarily focus on friendships and romantic relationships. These stories contain no onscreen sex, and most violence is offscreen or nongraphic. However, the stories may contain brief sexual nudity (textual), brief graphic violence, or occasional fantasy-world profanity. Particular stories may address mature topics.

The Eternal Dungeon.
Life Prison.
Michael's House.
Waterman.
Master/Other.

These series are intended for mature readers. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.

The series primarily focus on friendships and romantic relationships. These stories may contain onscreen sex, onscreen severe violence, or profanity; however, the majority of scenes in these series do not contain sex, violence, or profanity. Particular stories may address mature topics.

The stories contain no onscreen depictions of underage sex, but they may address the topic of child abuse or include problematic historical attitudes toward sex with minors. Readers in countries, states, or provinces whose laws cover the depiction of minors in fictional texts may wish to be cautious.

Unmasked.

This series is intended for mature readers. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.

These stories primarily focus on friendship. The stories address the topic of contemporary sexual attraction toward minors, including temptations toward acting on this attraction, either heterosexual or homosexual. The series includes occasional profanity. There is no onscreen sex or onscreen violence in the series.

Because of the sensitive nature of the subject matter, readers who have undergone traumatic experiences related to the subject matter may wish to approach the series with caution. Readers in countries, states, or provinces whose laws cover the depiction of minors in fictional texts may wish to be cautious.

Loren's Lashes.

This series is intended for mature readers. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.

These BDSM stories primarily focus on friendships and various types of sexually affectionate relationships. The stories may contain onscreen sex or profanity; however, the majority of scenes in this series do not contain sex or profanity.

Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels.

This series is intended for mature readers. Parental supervision is strongly suggested.

This series consists of a series of satires related to sexuality, including alternative sexuality. The stories may contain profanity. There is no onscreen sex or violence, but the topics that are satirized are mature.

Leather in Lawnville.

This BDSM series is intended for adults only, because some of its stories are erotica. The series includes profanity.

Online nonfiction

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