I feel like sometimes when I write stories that are kinky awakening stories, I’m stuck in the past. More precisely, the main characters have their kinky awakening similar to how I did, which happened in the early-to-mid 1990s.

That’s not how it happens anymore. In fact, I don’t really know how it happens anymore, except for when people discuss it on Fetlife or with me in person. But even then, most of the people I talk to at spanking parties and kink events are within 15 years of my own age, so their kinky awakenings likely followed a similar path to my own. 

I was thinking about a comment a reader made on the first Lizzie story, about how this 19-year-old girl has a chest full of kinky stuff. When I was 19, I had a box of kinky stuff. Not a lot of things, mind you, but pervertables — hairbrush, wooden spoon, spatula, paddleball paddle — and some porn videos. So I tend to assume everyone has that. 

I have already thought of a way to make that work — Lizzie has an older brother or sister (haven’t decided yet) who’s into all of this stuff, so she snooped around and found it, and when the older sibling went off to college she started exploring with it. Alternately, I can age the characters up a bit and have Lizzie and Dana (Alex’s younger sister) stay over at Alex’s apartment on their way somewhere, and then Lizzie sneaks into Alex’s room, and the rest of the story happens more or less the way it did. It would take a little more editing than the “older sibling” route because I’d have to change ages, dates, and timelines for the entire book, but it might be more realistic. 

I’ll have to give it some thought. 

This is not what Lizzie looks like sneaking into Alex’s bedroom, but it’s the best image I could find.