Garden variety smut won't do much for me nowadays. That's with monstergirls included or not. I need some kind of fetish sprinkled in for me to have some passing interest. The preferred overarching fetish I like to see would be domination but that's a catch-all for lots of sexual encounters so that would be more of a theme to the encounter rather than a specific fetish. Delving into more specific fetishism I'd probably be into stuff this board would consider too degenerate to post so I'll stick to the ones that should be okay to discuss.
>drain- energy drain, life drain, milking, mind wiping, hypnotization (free will drain)
>forbidden love- incest, age gap, physicality gap, class/social status gap
>BDSM- all manner of pain infliction, orgasm denial, spanking, pegging and much more
>+more stuff that I'm too ashamed to admit to openly even as an anon.
This is approaching things from a purely smut centric angle and not any kind of critical thinking level. As much as I enjoy smut that features my fetishism I know if I were going into other non-smut centric media I could still enjoy the fetishism but I'd be more critical of how it was portrayed. I would view it through the lens of "does the lewd act in this story make sense or is this just the writer felating their own fetishism?" One might argue that there's no purely objective art piece from the creator or the viewer and that the artist will always inject things subconsciously into their work they're not aware of just as much as the person viewing it may project their own thoughts or feelings onto a work.
That's how you get Fat dykess who see a character like Bayonetta and claim.
>"this is sexist and damaging to women."
and then you get other women who will see her as empowering and in some cases a wish-fulfillment i.e. The power fantasy for them (vicariously through the character in the game) beating up all manner of monsters. Typically women won't chase after such a fantasy but this just an example.
>what is good smut?
Like asking "what is the highest quality fast food?" Regardless of how you rank it, you're still eating fast food.
>what is bad smut?
Obviously, something you can't fap to or don't otherwise enjoy.
>What makes a story good to fap to, and what makes a bad rap story?
Assuming we're no longer in the realm of smut you shouldn't be fapping to a story although there's nothing to stop you from doing so. If you're saying it's a story in a smut centric piece I would argue there's little reason to focus hard on the story if you're main objective is to get your rocks off.
If it's a good story you should be involved with it. You'll care about the characters and what happens to them. If it's a smut story you shouldn't really care about the characters so much as getting your aforementioned rocks off.
Then there's the third rail which is a story that focuses on lewd things- think 50 shades of gray. There's lots of /monster/ content that tries to ride this rail and either ends up being a mixed up mess of smut or a mediocre story with lewd bits shoehorned in. I see this in lots of greentext content but greentext is probably a better medium for getting your feet wet anyway. I need to read more stories from the writefag thread. Most of the Anons in the writefag thread are trying to put together compelling narratives and to their credit I think we have some properly creative content with all kinds of settings and characters. Naturally, there will be some lewd content sprinkled in pretty much all of them. Make sure to stop by and read one or two stories a month and try to leave your thoughts for the author. >>317706 Some of them pretty cringe but when you're done you can talk shit about them and tell them what they can do to improve. You might actually enjoy reading a few of the stories (mabye).
An issue arises because a proper story takes time to flesh out and get the reader caring about characters. When I see a story with a sex scene right at the opening few pages it usually feels it was put there to keep me interested by grabbing hold of my dick rather than my getting me involved with whatever story is in the background. Then there's the issue of MGE and Monmuso media being very sexually oriented worlds. This isn't inherently a bad thing but if you're trying to enjoy a good story it's hard to ignore everyone flinging their assorted sexual juices everywhere.