BRISBANE, Australia — Erotica site ForTheGirls.com has launched a fiction competition to celebrate the site’s fifth birthday.
The site is inviting writers to submit erotic stories written specifically for a female audience.
The theme for submissions is transgression. To transgress is to disobey, to revolt, to engage in sedition, to sin. Each story must articulate this theme in some way and should feature sex.
The two top prizes will offer writers cash and a subscription to the site for one month, along with publication on the site. A number of smaller consolation prizes will be awarded.
"For the last five years, ForTheGirls has been providing women with diverse, explicit erotica,"webmistress Karen Jones said. "This year's theme of transgression seeks to embrace the naughtier, forbidden side of female fantasies. Too often women's erotica is dismissed as being either softcore or only about romance. Our site seeks to embrace all kinds of erotic material, be it the candles and soft-lighting variety or something with a harder edge. Women's desires are diverse and ever-changing and sometimes they have a dark-and-dirty side. I'm looking forward to exploring that aspect with this year’s competition theme.
"Of course, we still want these stories to articulate female sexual experience. ForTheGirls has always been about making a space for women to enjoy porn on their own terms. Indeed, that's one of the reasons why the site is still going strong after five years. Women want to be acknowledged as sexual beings and FTG has always made sure that women come first."
The site, which caters to heterosexual women, launched in June 2003.
Aside from offering women’s erotic fiction and regularly featured guest writers, the site showcases photos and movies tailored for female taste and a comprehensive online magazine featuring articles, columns, sex advice and reviews.