Content Policy

Effective date: 1 August 2026

Last updated: 1 August 2026

Smutlore publishes adult written fiction. This policy sets out what may appear on the site and how we decide. It applies to stories, chapters, titles, synopses, tags, profiles and comments.

The core rule

Every character in sexual content must be a fictional adult, and must not be written, coded or presented as a minor. If a character reads as underage, the work is not allowed, whatever the text asserts about their age.

Never permitted

Sexual content involving anyone under 18, appearing under 18, or coded as under 18, in any form including written, implied, stylised or "barely legal" framing. Anything that promotes, normalises or facilitates the sexual abuse of children.

Sexual content about a real, identifiable person without their lawful consent, including deepfakes and material published to humiliate.

Depictions of real non-consensual acts presented as real, including assault, coercion, trafficking, and sex obtained through incapacity or abuse of authority.

Sexual content between blood relatives, whatever ages are stated. Smutlore excludes this outright rather than treating it as a taboo theme.

Bestiality. Doxxing, threats and incitement to violence. Copyright infringement. Instructions for serious harm.

Dark themes, and where the line sits

Smutlore publishes fiction involving dark romance, power exchange, BDSM and taboo dynamics where the characters are clearly adults, the work is fiction, and it carries the right warnings.

Consent inside a story has to be legible. Where a work presents a sexual encounter in which consent is absent, ambiguous, or obtained through incapacity, coercion or deception, and presents it as real rather than as a fantasy the characters have agreed between themselves, we do not publish it. This is stricter than the law in most places and stricter than the way "consensual non-consent" is generally used online. Ambiguity is resolved against publishing.

We may also withhold work that is too ambiguous to classify or that our advertising and payment partners will not accept, whether or not it is lawful.

How work is screened

Nothing is published without screening first, and this is what actually runs.

Every work is read before publication by a panel of independent automated classifiers, which have to agree before it proceeds. Their verdict sends the work to one of four outcomes: publish, publish after correction, hold for a person, or exclude.

A set of hard exclusions sits above that panel and cannot be overridden by it. Where a work shows a signal of a minor, of sex between blood relatives, or of absent or ambiguous consent, it cannot reach the publish route however the panel voted. A separate scanner runs over the finished text as a backstop; where it finds material indicating a minor, the text is quarantined and destroyed rather than corrected.

Work held for review is not published while it waits. A person decides it and records why.

These are engineering controls and they are not perfect. They are built so that their mistakes fall on the side of withholding a lawful story rather than publishing an unlawful one, and so that either kind of mistake leaves a record that can be found and put right.

Where the current catalogue comes from

The launch catalogue is not open submission. It is a curated set of works licensed from their original authors and translated with permission, and we hold a record of that permission for every work. When author accounts open, submitted work will be screened the same way, with the identity and age checks described in our 2257 statement.

Warnings

Works must be labelled accurately. We may add or change ratings, genres, tags and content warnings. Current warning codes are: explicit, power-dynamics, violence, strong-language, alcohol, grief.

Evasion

You may not work around this policy with euphemism, altered spelling, disclaimers that contradict the story, coded tags, or links to material elsewhere.

Reporting and appeals

Report content to safety@smutlore.com with the URL and what the problem is. We may remove material immediately, send it for review, quarantine suspected illegal material, restrict where it appears, change its warnings, withdraw publishing access, and report to the authorities where required. Appeals go to the same address.