The pages represented in this section of the site are legacy from previous founders, moderators, and owners of this collection. Over time, these will be updated to reflect the evolution of the Universe over time.
This is the 'pamphlet' students are given when they join The Program. Well...
It is actually a guide and a mix of different rules from different authors, an attempt at pulling together a roughly consistant theme. Not every story follows this exactly, and even some that claim a pamphlet like this have scenes where it gets violated, ignored, followed only in letter, or carried out in a darker or lighter 'spirit of interpretation'. A lot of NiS is full of tricky double speak, for either good or ill, keep that in mind when reading The NiS Program Pamphlet.
There are three basic 'lines' for NiS stories to follow. The 'traditional line', which makes up the core page of the archive, follows the week in school format and focuses on one or more students of at least high school age. The story in traditional is consensual and avoids 'in-scene' (on camera) use of the 'hot-codes' (excepting as noted below). These stories also stick to at least the majority of 'The Program pamphlet.'
The 'universe line' follows the same consensual nature, avoiding 'hot-codes', but can take place outside the school format, outside the bounds of the students, outside the 'Pamphet', or whatever. It's where the stories that take place in the 'reality' or 'world' of NiS, but not in the same time, place, people, or format.
The 'NiS Hotcoded line' holds stories which directly reference a 'hot-code' in an 'in-scene' or 'on-camera' moment.
Typical hotcodes are themes such as incest, non-consent, sexual violence, and even 'non-traditional' sexualities. Hotcodes are classed as such by their ability to shock significant numbers of readers out of the 'erotic mood' and the exact definitons of what is a hot code and what is not is something set by the larger online erotica community.
The placement of stories here is sometimes subjective -requiring very case by case judgement and I reserve the right to make those judgments. This subjectivity is also why some of the older original stories may seem to be archived incorrectly - if Karen were written today, and not the first story, would be in the NiS_hotcoded section given the content in the Friday chapter.
Finally, stories which are not at all NiS, but still feature a 'Naked / Nude' and erotic theme might be archived by me under the Naked Stories Collection. Nothing of a hotcoded nature will be included there.
As an author I very much hope that people respect my wishes over how my characters are used. I know that desire is true for almost every other author who's stories are linked through this site. No creative person wants their work stolen and used elsewhere, especially without credit. Further, most of us do not want our characters written into someone else's story without our permission having been first granted, especially if that story uses the character in a way we did not envision that person developing.
Unauthorized fan fiction is theft of another's creative rights. It is the worst kind of insult - you are saying that while you might like the work, you have so little respect for the person behind it that you feel they have no right to their own efforts. You are saying that you feel perfectly ok riding their coat-tails to your own success by taking away from the artist's success and rights.
To that end, if we are going to ask others to respect our wishes, we can only do so if we ourselves respect them. Therefore, the policy of this collection is that it will not provide a link to any fan fiction story. Even if these stories straddle the border of what is legal in terms of copyright violation, on the issue of ethics they clearly cross the line. Writing fan fiction is just asking for people to not respect your creative wishes. Linking to it would be showing that we also do not respect the wishes of others even as we ask our wishes to be respected. So again, in order to maintain a high ethical standard and show that we when ask our creative desires to be respected we mean it, This collection will not violate the creative wishes of anyone else - it will not link to any fan fiction.
That said, if permission is granted for a work of fan fiction, it will be linked provided that permission is also made publicly available. You could after all, consider the entirety of Naked In School to be fan response to Karen in all three of fan fiction, parody, and homage, and that is why we also list the permission she gave the world to do so.
See also, for a layman's legal analysis:
Legal Scholarly analysis:
Cases and statutes:
At the "end of the day" we are not here to make social commentary, but to write -erotic fiction- and that makes all the difference.
In a nude world that tries to make its adults more sexually open there will likely be programs to get children to understand what is going on around them in some manner, but that is not where we should be focusing our attention as writers of -erotica-.
Children may indeed have their own sexuality, but it is no business of adults to be getting turned on by or fanaticizing about it.
If this were a sociology group, or the planning commission for the actual Program in a world where it existed, we might have need to consider the topic of children. But this is neither of those things, and we -frankly- have no business writing stories about the 'sex lives' of kids, because we are adults and what we are doing here is writing fiction designed to both entertain us and turn us on - to that end, we need to keep the age of our characters up a bit to something more natural for an adult to find appealing.
High school kids are still somewhat kids, albeit in adult bodies, but it is at that age we as people find our identities, and more importantly for this group find our ability to express and publicly claim our sexual identity. It is the transformative point where we find adulthood. We can write about these characters from that point of view, and be 'turned on' by the transformative experiences they go through in becoming adults, and they are close enough to us that the nature of their experience is relevant to us.
However, a story up somewhere else, such as an author's own website, might desire to include art. If a writer does so they need to consider the legal and moral issues.
Flat out, if the work includes an image of a minor, I will report it to the legal authorities of wherever it is that writer lives. Photoshoping an adult, or a drawing or some such gets a little more complicated. It is generally recommended that writer's avoid this, if not for legal reasons that for reasons of questionable taste.
If working in 'Naked Universe', or a college level school story, a piece might have more leeway. It might have characters who are adults and thus might very well be able to use models, drawings, and so on with no issue.
There is however, the final concern of copyright. If the piece uses images copyrighted by someone else, it is violating the law. It does not matter if it is 'done for free'. That has nothing to do with copyright. A story that violates another artist's copyright will not be listed here.
Recently however, or at least starting in 2005, the prevalence of rape fiction in NiS has grown. The majority of stories featuring rape as a theme came after 2005 (there are a few before this, but the majority come after).
Given this highly disturbing trend, I feel it is time to address the nature of the crime of rape as defined in law so that writers will understand which stories will be classified as such on this site. The definition I shall use for the crime will be taken from looking at the Model Penal Code and the trends in Common Law:
The majority of jurisdictions today do not require force to be physical, do not require the victim to be female, nor the attacker be male, and do not require any notable resistance. In fact the more common Common Law definition of rape today is more or less as follows:
In less than a fourth of states is being married a defense against rape. In other states nonconsensual sex with one's spouse is rape, or a lesser degree of rape.
Rape is a crime of soul, it is denying the self of the victim - telling them they do not exist as people, that they are merely things controlled by the attacker. It is most vile violation of another human being possible. It is not a turn on for most people, even for those who sometimes speak of having rape fantasies.
Writers should keep this in mind. If you want to see a fuller look at my personal opinions on the topic read my blog.
This is not license to delve into depravity, but rather to protect legitimate art. This archive will not act as a shield for anyone who delves into depraved acts or anything illegal, it will only keep the rulings above, and the spirit of what NiS is about.