What is the amount of sex in your story?

[GoldenMaia]

Just curious how much sex people put in their stories.

Do you do a build up to one big kaboom? Do you have lots of little sexy-time scenes? Is the plot of the story something else with some sexual-seasoning as afterthought?

Curious what people find they enjoy writing and reading most.

 

[TxRad]

The amount of sex is whatever the story calls for. No more, no less. Usually.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'll probably give the same answer as many...it depends. I have stories with a slow burn to the 'kaboom' then others where there's multiple scenes, usually shorter ones that lead to the kaboom.

Different for each type of story.

 

[le_kitty]

I think I do it differently each time. So as Tx said.

I often dislike sex for the sake of it in plot driven stories. I've written teasing scenes because I had originally intended to write a sex scene, but found myself annoyed and exasperated at the thought. The characters were better than that.

Though on the other hand, if I'm looking for a stroke story, please, leave out the plotty details.

 

[RejectReality]

I just write whatever is coming to me, and then segregate it by pen name and site. Sometimes that's wall to wall sex with only a couple of paragraphs of setup. Sometimes it's 15k worth of story before I get to 1k worth of sex, followed by an epilogue.

 

[sr71plt]

I have frequent sex scenes, often starting with one. All of them are, I think, integral to the story and character development.

 

[legerdemer]

Yea, the characters tell me what they want and when they want it. Sometimes it gets over the top soon. Others it's a slow burn... I do get pretty graphic.

 

[Bramblethorn]

By word count, maybe 10-20% actual sex scenes on average for mine; sometimes just a few words. For me the most interesting part of erotica is the leadup and the aftermath.

 

[DwellerDark]

There is usually only one in my stories, which are mostly slow burners. However, there might be a flashback or a sexual scene earlier in the story as well.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Wall to wall

 

[Hypoxia]

Sometimes lots, sometimes not. Sometimes begin and/or end with sex. Sometimes sex IS the story -- that's called pr0n. Humans are sexual beings, so my tales about humans deal necessarily with sexuality. Stories about asexual robots will lack that human flavor.

I don't like reading descriptions that are repeated, or ultra-detailed, or anatomically impossible. I try to avoid writing such.

 

[NotWise]

Different stories call for different amounts of sex. I tend to like a lot of tension leading up to the Big Event, then a fairly brief description of the Big Event, regardless of how protracted the event may be. That's a little bit like real life; physical tension builds up during sex leading to the brief climactic event and then relaxation.

There are also different ways to write about sex, so that events described by one writer could take up 60% of the story but the same events described by another writer may be only 20% of the story.

 

[sr71plt]

For me the most interesting part of erotica is the leadup and the aftermath.

You don't include the leadup and the aftermath as part of the sex scene? In erotica?

 

[SamScribble]

Not enough. Apparently.

 

[GoldenCojones]

I try to get as much in as the plot will support. Sometimes I do a lot more than that

 

[Boxlicker101]

I have been known to include substantial amounts of sexual activity in my stories. Depending on the length, there are usually two or three scenes, each one ending in "ka-boom." But I have a few where there is no sex at all.

 

[PervOtaku]

I try to structure things so that there is one sex scene per chapter. The execution of this varies. Sometimes all the plot of that chapter is directed towards getting to the sex scene. Sometimes the sex set-up is very simple and the plot parts are unrelated (or even not present at all). One story had a structure resulting in two sex scenes per chapter.

 

[Hypoxia]

I try to structure things so that there is one sex scene per chapter.

I usually write at least two fuckouts per chapter or episode. Rarely only one; often up to a dozen. But that all varies with the tale's needs. Some strokers go setup-fuck-rest-fuck-rest-fuck-passout. Some dramas have poontang up front followed by dire consequences. Some romances are all buildup with hardly any explicit sex. A farce might have many sexual attempts but no full hookups. A tragedy might have nonstop sex, ever more degrading.

How much sex is enough? Just enough, or maybe a bit more.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I try to do more buildup. I love storieswith a slow burn, and then sex scene after sex scene after sex scene getting more and more depraved as they go.

I'm not particularly good at writing all of that though...

 

[Bramblethorn]

You don't include the leadup and the aftermath as part of the sex scene? In erotica?

I wouldn't have said so, no. In case there's confusion here, I don't mean physical foreplay/after-play; I'm talking about stuff like two people meeting at a party and getting to know one another, the insult that spurs somebody to make a risky move on the boss's daughter, the complications of meeting your partner's parents in a closeted relationship. That's the sort of stuff I'm talking about as "leadup and aftermath". For me that sort of context is crucial to making the sex interesting and relevant, but I wouldn't call it "sex scene" in itself.

(Especially not for the one that begins with "teacher meets visitor" in a classroom full of primary-age school children.)

 

[Hypoxia]

...I don't mean physical foreplay/after-play; I'm talking about stuff like two people meeting at a party and getting to know one another, the insult that spurs somebody to make a risky move on the boss's daughter, the complications of meeting your partner's parents in a closeted relationship.

Buildup-action-aftermath need not be in that sequence. I like non-linearity.

A few of us sometimes use a technique of wham-bam sex up front followed by the buildup as backstory. Beginning: the narrator receives dual oral attention, describes the action, then recollects how they got there before moving on to more hot action, possibly with further backstory buildups.

Or we start with the ending; the story then reeks of inevitability. Same thing as sex-first but maybe without the sex and followup. She watches his funeral and recalls their life, yada yada.

Sex-first is the hook. Grab them eyeballs!

 

[sr71plt]

Buildup-action-aftermath need not be in that sequence. I like non-linearity.

A few of us sometimes use a technique of wham-bam sex up front followed by the buildup as backstory. Beginning: the narrator receives dual oral attention, describes the action, then recollects how they got there before moving on to more hot action, possibly with further backstory buildups.

Or we start with the ending; the story then reeks of inevitability. Same thing as sex-first but maybe without the sex and followup. She watches his funeral and recalls their life, yada yada.

Sex-first is the hook. Grab them eyeballs!

More often than not that's the structure I tend to use, yes.

 

[RejectReality]

I very rarely start with sex, even in my stroke pieces, and I'm doing okay. Never seen any particular boost from the few that start with sex either.

 

[JanneE]

I try to structure things so that there is one sex scene per chapter. The execution of this varies. Sometimes all the plot of that chapter is directed towards getting to the sex scene. Sometimes the sex set-up is very simple and the plot parts are unrelated (or even not present at all). One story had a structure resulting in two sex scenes per chapter.

Assuming I want to read "Tentacle Demon", can you give us a synopsis? I need a new book. The +1 sex sounds very natural to me.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

In real life sex tends to be inevitable or likely in spite of all obstacles. Getting our genes into the next generation is the Siren's Call of Life. And inevitable is how I treat sex. No place to do it is the lone barrier I allow.