Avoiding repetition when describing sex

[Whanmore]

I'm glad you resuscitated this thread. I can't help noticing that the O.P. was smart and witty, but probably fucked off after seeing some of the dour responses here.

Personally, I think (and I'm being serious here), the solution is not to put too much explicit sex into your story in the first place.

I disagree. I have multiple explicit sex scenes in each chapter but each character has there own motivations and prejudices and we can talk about that. When two people have sex you can have u the emotions that lead to the desire and the emotions that lead to reluctance. If the characters are nuance enough then that's at least four emotion in every sex scene. I like hearing a reluctant woman's Inner Dialogue. Some like reading an aggressive male. Its up to the reader to make us feel those motions that lead to such and act of committal.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

It’s a porn site, a good porn site, but still….

And there is a limited matrix of actions and, yes, those get repetitive if one doesn’t get inventive. So:

By all means use synonyms. If you don’t like this one or that, fine, but failing to use at least some means your whole sex scene(s) is limited to maybe three nouns. Borrrring!

Work on sensations. What does it feel like to her when his fingers ______ ? What does her _____ feel like to him when she _____s his ______?

Emotions. What are the two thinking as the evening progresses?

Drop a bit of dialogue in the middle of the act.

Unless you’re breeding mink, take the odd break. Stop short of orgasm, start again.