I Tried Smitten, the AI Erotic Story Generator

Gabrielle. Mid-Thirties. Muscular. Bisexual. Into wrestling, praise, and bodily fluids. No, I’m not drafting a dating app bio. Instead, I’m creating a protagonist for an AI erotic story generator that’s pumped out nearly 19 million stories since its inception in 2024: Smitten. 

The sheer volume of stories reflects the platform’s ingenuity and ease of use. You name and gender your characters, write out the actions you want to see (oral sex, mutual massage, anal play, water sports, etc), and briefly describe a scene that the generator can flesh out. Finally, you’ll choose first or third person narration, confirm you’re 18+, and in under a minute, Smitten will have generated a personalized erotic story for you to read privately, use as masturbation fodder, or share with a partner via a private link. 

After completing my own character description, I write one for my man who makes a regular appearance in my internal fantasy life. (It’s my boyfriend, I’m in love). Suddenly, I’m dropped into a scene of a fictional rendering of my love spitting into the mouth of a fictionalized me…Indeed, the generator understood the assignment. 

I wasn’t surprised that I found an erotic story arousing. My boyfriend and I are my favorite characters in my internal fantasy life, and I’ve been devouring romance novels since middle school. What caught me off guard, however, was how quickly I was able to go from judging this kind of technology to understanding its appeal. 

As a sex journalist, I’ve watched my workload steadily decrease with the rise of AI technologies that produce, in seconds, the kinds of work I report and write about. And I have real concerns about its potential environmental impacts. So, I was primed to oppose Smitten. 

Yet it took just one Smitten story for me to understand its appeal—and value—for the millions of pleasure-seekers who keep discovering it or coming back to it. At its best, it’s an antidote to the stress and exhaustion impeding people’s sex lives.

In one 2025 survey, 38% of Americans identified fatigue as their biggest barrier to sex, putting it above health issues, work stress, household responsibilities, and even parenting demands. Meanwhile, a study in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine reported that when people experienced higher levels of stress in their day-to-day lives, they reported lower sexual desire and lower sexual arousal. 

After trying it both on my own and with my partner, I believe that it’s within that space of limited time, mounting stress, and lingering desire that Smitten shines. 

For the pleasure-seekers who miss feeling sexually playful, adventurous, or connected but don’t have the time to read a 500-page romantasy novel or the bandwidth to dream up an elaborate role-play scenario from scratch, the platform offers the shortcut of a personalized fantasy in under a minute. Especially for people whose desire hasn’t disappeared but whose time and mental bandwidth have, Smitten’s low barrier to entry is a tremendous benefit. 

Smitten’s biggest strength isn’t the prose; the stories aren’t the literary masterpieces found in the current weird girl lit canon. Like most AI writing, it leans a little heavy on clichés and generalizations. When I created a character who was bisexual, for example, the generator automatically pumped out a threesome scene, even though I hadn’t prompted it to create group sex content. (FYI: For future stories, I circumvented this issue by explicitly writing “no threesomes” or “monogamous relationships”). 

Rather, its strength lies in the way it lowers barriers towards desire. Instead of having to go from zero to full-blown fantasy world, Smitten allows users to start with something half-baked and imperfect, and edit from there. With a premium subscription ($7.99 per month), users can even request edits to single sentences and full scenes that don’t quite resonate, while also saving favorite characters and building multi-chapter storylines featuring recurring characters.

“Erotica has long helped couples cultivate desire and talk about their fantasies,” doctor of human sexology Jessica O’Reilly, Ph.D., host of the Sex With Dr. Jess podcast, and co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Seduction and Foreplay, tells SheKnows. The brain is amongst our most powerful sexual organs, and erotica gets its wheels turning by allowing readers to co-create the experience and imagine themselves in ways that feel personally meaningful, she says. 

When read with or to a partner, erotica has the added benefit of supporting conversations about fantasies. “Reading it together can prompt conversations about fantasies, boundaries, and turn-ons in a way that often feels less vulnerable than trying to articulate those desires from scratch,” she says. 

Dr. O’Reilly sees AI-generated erotica as an extension of that idea. “An AI tool that creates a personalized erotic story based on your interests or fantasies may add another layer of novelty, spark laughter, curiosity, and conversations about desire, boundaries, and fantasy,” she says. 

Still, Smitten isn’t a cure-all. While the platform may make it easier to enter, engage, and access a fantasy, it can’t eliminate the stressors that are getting in the way of your sex life to begin with. If chronic stress, burnout, or exhaustion are interfering with your sex life, Dr. O’Reilly says the most effective interventions address those root causes—whether that’s improving work-life balance, going to therapy, delegating responsibilities, or otherwise carving out time for rest and re-connection.

The most unexpected part of trying Smitten, however, wasn’t the stories themselves, but the conversations my partner and I had afterward about whether, when, and how AI belongs in our relationship.

The use of Smitten—as well as other AI-based sex and relationship tools, such as Arya—raises a set of questions for couples about AI use in the relationship. 

Certainly, “AI can be used to reduce the mental load associated with everyday life by helping with the planning and scheduling to free up time that you might dedicate to relationships,” says Dr. O’Reilly. “It can also prompt certain conversations, such as those about fantasies, and offer language when you’re struggling to find the right words.”

But if AI begins replacing every vulnerable conversation, love note, or creative expression of affection, couples risk outsourcing the very skills that strengthen relationships over time, says Dr. O’Reilly. 

“From search engines and navigation apps to email, social media, and online shopping, AI is already embedded in many of our apps,” she says. “So, it’s not a matter of whether or not to use it, but how to use it in ways that support, rather than diminish, our relationships.”

Personally, I found the back-and-forth my partner and I had about our ethics around AI used to be just as connective as reading about fictionalized versions of ourselves reveling in one another’s sweat, spit, and cum. 

When I first logged onto Smitten, I expected to walk away with my panties in a bunch over the latest ways AI is taking over something deeply human. Instead, I came away appreciating the personalization of the stories themselves, and also the conversations using the platform encouraged between my partner and me.

After all, Smitten didn’t just facilitate a one-off moment of heat between my boyfriend and me. It also launched an ongoing conversation about the role of technology and AI in our relationship more broadly—ultimately, giving us more than one entry to heightened intimacy.