Are two chapters of sexless prologue too much?

CaryJanJunior

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So, I am planning a story set in a 17-18th century (not specifically on Earth, but with similar technological and cultural situations).

The sexual part of the plot will kick off once the protagonists sail across a physical barrier into a sex filled world filled with hentai logic, where even fighting is replaced by sex.

However, I wanted to have a chapter dedicated to the characters crossing this boundary in the first place, as it is supposed to be dangerous (near impossible, in fact, and they are trying to do it less as an attempt to survive and more out of spite - to not let their pursuers capture them alive).

They survive due to the crew's mildly supernatural talents (always knows north, etc.), but I feel that I should set these supernatural skills up first before I use them.

To do this, however, I would need another chapter before the crossing. This leaves me with two options:

Option one is to have my story start with a two chapter prologue with 0 sex.

Option two would be to lean into them expecting death and spending that time before dying however they can, but I intended to have the boundary be a sharp difference between normal and hentai logic, so that the characters have to adapt to the suddenly much leader world around them, and I feel having them spend the chapter before the crossing fucking as well would undermine that separation.

So I have three total options, as I see it:

1. Try and introduce the abilities in the chapter where the crossing is, either before they try to cross the boundary or during it and hope it won't feel like a cop out or deus ex machina. This could be alleviated by it being the first chapter of the story.

2. Put a two chapter sexless prologue at the start of the story, and risk pushing the audience away.

3. Put sex in the prologue, and risk diminishing the intended sharp distinction between the worlds separated by the boundary.


Does anyone have any advice? Options I missed, reasons why one of the options presented is the best, or suggestions as to how to mitigate the issues with each of them?
 
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Does anyone have any advice? Options I missed, reasons why one of the options presented is the best, or suggestions as to how to mitigate the issues with each of them?
I have a novel length story with a prologue to set the scene, no sex, but I had a volcanic eruption and a tsunami to make up for it. Also, I had a fifteen year old girl, so I had to wait five years and the next chapter, anyway.
 
Many of my stories have multiple chapters before there is even the implication of sex. In some, it never happens.

Don't write a story to please the sex, write the sex to please the story.
 
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