How Much of a Story Before Sexy Parts is Too Much?

[other2other1]

Lots of great advice in here, my two cents. It depends on your story.

If you're going for shock value or a full-on erotic story. then it can start from the first word. If you want to build a world that your readers can identify with and fall to sleep and dream about, then get that done with no minimum word length before you get sexy.

As Sandra Bullock said in 'The Lost City', "You gotta earn the throb!"

 

[Emilymcplugger]

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I am writing a story, and I am about 3500 words in and have not gotten to the sexy part of the story yet. The 3500 before that are relevant to the story, establishing the scenario, the world, and the build up. But in curious given the base purpose of this site if I have gone too far.

I know there is no cookie cutter answer to this, but I am curious to hear what my fellow authors think. Thanks!

If your build-up is good in terms of set-up and character no-one will care and it’ll be worth the journey.