Content Guidelines

What Hush is for

Hush writes romantic fiction for adults, graphic sexual content included, privately and to your own taste. Every story is fiction generated by software, about fictional adults who want each other. Desire, tension, rivalry, danger and dark settings are all part of the genre — between adults, and always with consent.

What Hush will never write

These rules hold for every story — private or published, whatever the request says, and whatever the framing: fiction, fantasy, role-play or "just pretend". Asking for any of it is itself a breach.

• Anyone under 18. No sexual or romantic content involving anyone under 18 or any character presented as a minor, whatever the setting, framing or claimed age. No childlike descriptions in a sexual context, no age-play, and nothing sexual set in a school for children. If characters knew each other young, nothing romantic or sexual happened between them until both were adults.
• Non-consent. No rape, sexual assault, coercion, or blackmail or threats into sexual activity. Nothing sexual with anyone asleep, unconscious, drugged, too intoxicated to consent, or under hypnosis or mind control. This includes fiction, "dubious consent" and pre-arranged "consensual non-consent" role-play: every act is clearly wanted by everyone involved.
• Family members. No sexual or romantic content between relatives, including step-, adoptive and foster family.
• Animals. No sexual content involving animals. Shapeshifters and other non-human characters are only ever in human form during intimacy.
• Death. No death, killing or serious injury in a sexual context, and no sexual content involving a dead body.
• Extreme violence. No torture, mutilation, gore, or blood play in a sexual context.
• Bodily waste. No scat, urine or vomit in a sexual context.
• Real people. No real public figures — celebrities, influencers, politicians, athletes or anyone else famous — by name. No details that would identify a real private person: a surname, a workplace, a school, a social media handle or an address. A character may share a first name with someone you know, and a fictional celebrity is fine.
• Trafficking and paid intimacy. No human trafficking or sexual slavery, and no sexual activity exchanged for payment between characters.
• Hate. No content that demeans people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sexuality or gender identity, and no slurs.
• Anything else unlawful. Nothing else that is illegal where you live or where Hush operates.

The first rule is also the law: written and audio material that sexualises anyone under 18 is illegal in Canada and in most other places. It is the rule we enforce fastest, and where the law requires it we report it to the authorities.

What's fine

• Any first name for a character, including the first name of someone you know.
• Fictional celebrities, royalty and public figures — a famous pop star, a rival CEO.
• University settings, with students and lecturers who are adults.
• Power dynamics, dominance and roughness both characters clearly want.
• Danger, crime and villains in the plot — kept out of the intimacy.
• Tropes like forced proximity, enemies to lovers and arranged marriage — where nothing happens between them until both want it.

How we enforce this

• Before anything is written. Every request, character name and title is checked. If it breaks a rule, you're told which one before anything is written or charged, and you can change it.
• While a story is written. The rules are part of every instruction the writing software follows, and each scene is checked as it's written. Anything that breaks a rule is rewritten out.
• Before narration. The finished story is checked as a whole. A story that still breaks a rule is stopped and never delivered, and whatever it cost — credits or your free story — is returned.
• Before publication. A story put forward for the Global list is checked again before anyone else can hear it, then published or declined with the reason.
• After publication. Every published story can be reported, and a person reviews every report. When these rules change, published stories are checked again.

Automated checks aren't perfect. If one stops something that was within these rules, or misses something that wasn't, tell us — see Complaints and appeals below.

Publishing to the Global list

Your stories are private unless you publish them. Publishing puts a story in front of other readers, so a little more applies:

• Publish only stories Hush wrote for you.
• Nothing that identifies a real person, including you — no names of real people, contact details or anything else that points to someone. A story written about someone in your own life stays private.
• Every published story shows its spice level. Don't try to disguise what a story contains.
• One story per week per account, and one waiting for review at a time.

You can unpublish a story, or withdraw one waiting for review, at any time from your library. Either way you keep your own copy.

Using the Service itself

• One account per person, and only for adults.
• Don't create accounts by automated means, or try to get around rate limits, credits, the free story, or where Hush is available.
• Don't probe or attack the Service's security, resell it or reverse-engineer it. If you find a vulnerability, report it to us rather than testing how far it goes.

Complaints and appeals

Reporting a published story. Every published story has a Report control: choose the rule it breaks and add any detail. Without an account, or for anything else that breaks these rules, contact us at [email protected] with a link to the story and what's wrong. Reports are anonymous to the story's author.

What happens next. A person reviews every report and decides within seven business days — sooner for anything involving a minor. A story that breaks these rules comes off the Global list; depending on how serious it is, we may also suspend or close the account. Every decision is recorded.

Appeals. If your story was declined or removed, or a request was refused, and you think the rules were misapplied, contact us with the story's title and why. A person reviews every appeal and replies within seven business days.

Please don't report a story only because it isn't to your taste: the Global list can be filtered by genre and trope, and every story shows its spice level for that reason.

The binding version

This page is written to be read. The version that governs your use of Hush is section 5 of the Terms of Service; where the two differ, the Terms apply. See also the End User Agreement and the Privacy Policy.