Thanks Terrie. Your revised guidelines say non-fiction sex can get something excluded (not just explicit, but any non-fiction sex). This seems to have led some boost nominators to be under the impression that saying a historical figure engaged with prostitutes makes a piece unboostable. Can you tell me if this is considered too sexually explicit and therefore unboostable?

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/benjamin-franklin-debauchery-the-hellfire-club-uk-6461fbf85cfe

Seriously, I thought it would do well and I'm disappointed. It's all a big joke down here in England - what the aristocrats got up to! And I think it was supposed to be a bit of a joke then, too.

One nominator said it didn't have enough of me in it, but my account of the visit to the caves published for Halloween, also failed to deliver. And that was all about my experience!

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