Erotic Maneuvers in the Dark

[Rob_Royale]

So the idea of writing an erotic story where there is no light could be interesting. This would take visual descriptions out of the story for the most part, requiring us to describe what the characters felt, heard, smelled, tasted. I think it would dramatically increase the erotic nature of the coupling.

So what situations could the characters find themselves in to rob them of their sense of sight?

A closet? Seven minutes in heaven?
In an elevator during a power outage, and the emergency lights fail.
In a storm cellar during a tornado. It's so pitch dark they can't find the lanterns.
A panic room and the bad guys cut the power. Fear can be quite the aphrodisiac.
What else?

 

[CuttingEdge]

I was in a cave one time, and the tour guide shut off the light to show how weird, living things can still survive without sunlight. She even said to "look at your arm in the darkness, aa a cave is one of few places where there is total darkness". The sad part was, I was looking at my arm for that very reason before she said it.

Maybe two cavers who have their equipment fail, but not their lustful desires as they grope in the darkness for a way out, and each other?

 

[CuttingEdge]

Ever got locked inside a Conex Box? Neither have I, but I bet its dark.

If I ever did, I would love to be in on with a woman. Heck, she would not even have to be good looking: I could not see her anyway and just enjoy her charms!

 

[SteelPoint]

So the idea of writing an erotic story where there is no light could be interesting. This would take visual descriptions out of the story for the most part, requiring us to describe what the characters felt, heard, smelled, tasted. I think it would dramatically increase the erotic nature of the coupling.

Really?

Sight, for us humans and unlike various other creatures which are far more reliant on other senses, is critical to much of what we do in life... and surely sex is no different.

At close quarters, agreed, touch and smell-taste can come into the equation - but I suspect that vision/sight is way out there in front as regards erotic stimuli, followed at some distance by hearing/sound.

Sorry to pour cold water but this seems undeniable to me.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Really?

Sight, for us humans and unlike various other creatures which are far more reliant on other senses, is critical to much of what we do in life... and surely sex is no different.

At close quarters, agreed, touch and smell-taste can come into the equation - but I suspect that vision/sight is way out there in front as regards erotic stimuli, followed at some distance by hearing/sound.

Sorry to pour cold water but this seems undeniable to me.

I was talking about fiction. Not actual sex.

 

[Carnevil9]

I think it's a great idea, even if just as a writing gimmick to come up with something that feels new and different. You could have a series of stories, based on denying the various senses. Some would make better stories than others!

As for the situation that causes the loss of sight, it could be voluntary. Perhaps a couple hears that when one sense is lost, the others become heightened. They want to test that with sex. So they deliberately close all the blinds, turn off all the lights, and put on blindfolds to keep out any stray photons, then climb into bed and see what it feels like.

 

[AlinaX]

One of my very first stories here on Lit was set in the pitch blackness of a cave: The Coming of the Stone Giants

 

[Milo_Grigsby]

I wrote a story combining no light and no gravity.

A Problem of Physics

Being a big ol' sci-fi nerd it was fun to write.

 

[CuttingEdge]

A little different, but I wrote a novel about a woman who was deafened by and explosion. I had no idea it would end up being my first trilogy, so three full novels with a deaf main character.

They were difficult novels to write, but also well worth the effort. It really causes the reader to think about what losing certain senses would be like.

 

[SteelPoint]

I was talking about fiction. Not actual sex.

That was realised.

I was talking about fiction which draws in the (intelligent) reader by being as close as possible to reality... as opposed to (literally) incredible situations where that same reader is separated from reality by a yawning believability gap and left, likewise, yawning and rolling eyes.

Your thread, though. Maybe that's the way you want to go.

 

[AlinaX]

I wrote a story combining no light and no gravity.

A Problem of Physics

Being a big ol' sci-fi nerd it was fun to write.

I started reading this at some point, but gave it another go now. I know you mention a clean-up fee, but really the best way to finish this would have been to switch the lights on and seen lots of wobbly spheres of cum floating about the bay.

 

[DarkSollat]

So the idea of writing an erotic story where there is no light could be interesting. This would take visual descriptions out of the story for the most part, requiring us to describe what the characters felt, heard, smelled, tasted. I think it would dramatically increase the erotic nature of the coupling.

So what situations could the characters find themselves in to rob them of their sense of sight?

A closet? Seven minutes in heaven?
In an elevator during a power outage, and the emergency lights fail.
In a storm cellar during a tornado. It's so pitch dark they can't find the lanterns.
A panic room and the bad guys cut the power. Fear can be quite the aphrodisiac.
What else?

This is great and hot idea. First two especially.
Don't let critics to put you down.

 

[CuttingEdge]

I could not agree more with @DarkSollat ; this idea has so much merit.

What is great is, the mysteriousness of darkness can bring intrigue to the story by way of it being a unique setting started by a unique circumstance, be subtle in that the darkness makes something a simple as a kiss seem awkward and misplanted giving the story realism and plausability, or taking it to full-on, full sex in the pitch darkness where only 4 of the 5 senses can described.

 

[DarkSollat]

Two ideas based on places I or my friends visited.

1. A dinner in darkness. As a name suggests, quests in such event eat in complete darkness. One pair however gets frisky and eats each other. But they forget the waitresses wear night vision googles.

2. It's called The Important Place, and is run by blind people for others to see their everyday struggle. It's also pitch black there.

Finally, but it requires a great compassion, the story of two blind people having sex. Or one's blind, one's not.