How Intentional Are Your Sex Scenes?

[PennyThompson]

Someone should have fucked Foucault.

Plot bunny alert: Someone travels back in time and takes Immanuel Kant's virginity while he's in the midst of writing Critique of Pure Reason, drastically altering the course of the European Enlightenment

 

[metropolinational]

Plot bunny alert: Someone travels back and time and takes Immanuel Kant's virginity while he's in the midst of writing Critique of Pure Reason, drastically altering the course of the European Enlightenment

Ah yes. The 12 monkeys, 10,000 monkeys crossover.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Plot bunny alert: Someone travels back and time and takes Immanuel Kant's virginity while he's in the midst of writing Critique of Pure Reason, drastically altering the course of the European Enlightenment

"To be or not to be" becomes "to do or to be done", in which Hamlet weighs the pain and suffering inherent in bottoming against the emotional labor of topping.

 

[Actingup]

For the record I was pushing for more (and earlier) sex

You try and treat women with respect and then they behave like 17-year old guys on a first date….

 

[TheWritingGroup]

You try and treat women with respect and then they behave like 17-year old guys on a first date….

Timidly refuse to even sit too close to their date for fear of scaring them away?

--Annie

 

[AG31]

two three-comes

Is this a pun or a typo?

 

[old_prof]

Is this a pun or a typo?

typo. But I saw it immediately after I posted and decided to leave it.

 

[Duleigh]

Before I started writing erotica, I hadn't really considered the narrative impact of position and actions as anything more than "this seems sexy, let's do that." Now that I'm actually writing it, though, I'm putting a lot of consideration into whether or not to have oral, what kind of foreplay, who's doing what, what position, what are the other body parts doing, all (okay, most) with an eye on narrative impact, what it reveals about a character, things of that nature.

I'm curious how much thought goes into deciding how the arc of the sex will play out in any given story. How much of it for you is steamy id "this is sexy" vs. big-brain ego "narratively, this is the ideal position and chain of events to showcase the relationship and character dynamic."

Where do you fall on the spectrum? What are the main considerations that go into a sex scene for you?

I wouldn't be surprised if someone's asked more or less this same exactly question, but I couldn't easily find a thread on this specific topic, so... Here it is.

I am all over the spectrum. It all depends on the type of story I'm writing. If it's a quick stroker I describe everything down to the drops of sweat and dialogue will merely be grunts and groans. If it's a romance it's more emotional and I'll describe the participant's feelings as much as the action. If it's action there will be fewer sex scenes and they will not be very important to the plot of the story. If it's a romantasy (which I love writing) the sex act is more implied because I'm aiming at a wider audience with my swords, sorcery, and lovers.

 

[Actingup]

Timidly refuse to even sit too close to their date for fear of scaring them away?

--Annie

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[Actingup]

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This story is getting grimmer and grimmer as we go.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

I've absolutely no idea what the OP is asking, though I've read it twice.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sigh, why doesn't that surprise me?

I've absolutely no idea what the OP is asking, though I've read it twice.