Have you ever written about sex in a very cold place?

[TheNovelist2000]

Just roll with it.

Absolutely!

 

[SimonDoom]

I think our friends from Finland would have a lot of useful information about this subject.

I like the question. I haven't had "intense cold" sex too often, but I've had some on backpacking trips, or on ski trips, or spent other time where there was snow. I don't particularly care for the cold, and speaking from my own view it makes sex more difficult. Logistically difficult, but also more difficult to get aroused. Which isn't to say it can't happen, but it doesn't "come" as easily.

You're not going to get frostbite just by doing a little romping in the snow, although it would be hard to stand in bare feet long in the snow. But if you want to make it more realistic, they could wear boots and nothing else while doing their winter lake-side romping.

Something that IS very arousing and, I think sexually stimulating, is being in a place that is warm surrounded by cold. Like being by a big raging fire in a fireplace in a cabin where it's freezing outside and the wind is slapping against the windows. Or being in a cozy tent in the woods past sunset, when the temperature outside falls very fast. Sex itself is a good activity to warm oneself, because it gets the heart racing and you have two bodies pressed against each other. Sleeping bag sex is interesting.

Something many people don't know is that the most important thing for staying warm in the cold is to cover your extremeties -- hands, feet, head. Those are the places where you lose your heat fastest. Not your legs and torso. So it's perfectly plausible for people to do some fun naked romping in the snow if they're wearing gloves, caps, and footwear, and nothing else.

If your characters are in an extreme environment, play up the sensory experience, especially the fleeting and changing feelings of cold and warmth.

 

[Omenainen]

I don't particularly care for the cold, and speaking from my own view it makes sex more difficult.

As do almost any “different and exciting” settings we cook up around here. If given a choice between, say, a car seat, or a movie theater seat, or on a beach, etc and a bed, the bed would be the comfier option almost 100% of the times.

Something many people don't know is that the most important thing for staying warm in the cold is to cover your extremeties -- hands, feet, head. Those are the places where you lose your heat fastest. Not your legs and torso. So it's perfectly plausible for people to do some fun naked romping in the snow if they're wearing gloves, caps, and footwear, and nothing else.

Kind of, but in a roundabout way. The reason the extremities freeze first is the body redirects blood flow, aka heat, to the most vital area of the body which is the torso and to an extent, head. In milder temperatures, say, to -5°C, keeping your torso warm enough makes you so warm you can do without mittens and hat.

Also, if someone is hypothermic, do not stick them in hot shower or sauna or anything like that. The correct diy procedure is to cuddle with them under blankets to warm them up slowly. Warming up the extremities too fast would make the cold blood flow into the heart all at once, and that can be lethal.

 

[TheNovelist2000]

If your characters are in an extreme environment, play up the sensory experience, especially the fleeting and changing feelings of cold and warmth.

Oh yeah! The cold can give us a break from the usual clichés and allow us to create more inventive sensory descriptions.

 

[Trionyx]

And keep him warm enough to prevent shrinkage, though not a problem if you’re writing in the lesbian category.

 

[RetroFan]

I've written two historical fiction stories set in very cold places. One was set on the Titanic in 1912 - Bad Things Happen on April 15 - and the other was set during the 'Big Freeze' of 1963, the frigid UK winter of 1962-1963 (Hot Sex in the Big Freeze). This weather event is referenced in the song 'Life In A Northern Town' by Dream Academy, with the line 'In winter 1963, it felt like the world would freeze..."

The amusing thing was that I wrote both during hot Australian weather of late summer and early autumn.

 

[Britva415]

Cold would affect the man more than the woman when performing

"When performing," that's probably true, but it affects the woman's willingness to perform at all more than the man.

I remember when I absolutely blew my roommate's mind by teaching him to turn his room's heat up before bringing a girl home. He couldn't figure out why he kept getting them all the way home and this close to scoring but then they kept leaving before the main event.

This is such an important factor that two of my stories have explicitly featured room-heat in the plots.

 

[LFM90]

I’m thinking about writing a story that involves a retreat in a freezing mountain cabin (in a country like Norway), and I realised that I don’t really know what it’s like having sex in a very cold place. I have my imagination, but I like to add little realistic details. So, have you ever had sex in a very cold place, and is there any difference compared to sex at normal temperature?

Here are some questions to anchor your thoughts:

Do you take off your clothes at all? Do you just pull your pants down enough to pull out your dick and then tug her panties beneath her skirt to fuck? Or do you take them off completely?

Do you immediately put on clothes afterward if you choose to go naked during sex?

And what about showers? I guess you’d shower less in a mountain retreat—do you still make an effort to shower before sex, or do you just not smell because of the cold?

Is sticking two naked bodies together under the sheets warmer than layering up individually?

Can people have sex beside/on a frozen lake or in the snow, or is that just stupid? I’m thinking about frostbite.

And feel free to share any other details you've thought of.

I’m in love with the idea I love to freezing cold and sex

 

[LFM90]

Sounds interesting. I might give it a go.

Please do

 

[Britva415]

Anyway, to answer @TheNovelist2000 's question, I'm also here to reinforce the "doing it under many effective blankets" experience people have offered.

 

[StillStunned]

Anyway, to answer @TheNovelist2000 's question, I'm also here to reinforce the "doing it under many effective blankets" experience people have offered.

As long as you're careful not to disturb any cats who've tucked themselves away under the blankets.

 

[stickygirl]

As other have already mentioned, people in cold climates have fires and have sex indoors. There has been mention of showers, but in Under the Ice the MCs have a badesvamp... @Omenainen will be familiar with them, I'm sure.

The alternative to showers is not washing at all, but under those circumstances sex is not for the squeamish. Cleaning your bits with wet-wipes after sex is a disincentive to quickies in the cold.

 

[Britva415]

As long as you're careful not to disturb any cats who've tucked themselves away under the blankets.

Imagine allowing a cat in the sex room at sex time

 

[stickygirl]

Imagine allowing a cat in the sex room at sex time

That happened to friends and the cat was puzzled by his swinging balls and swatted them

 

[Britva415]

That happened to friends and the cat was puzzled by his swinging balls and swatted them

SEE

 

[TheNovelist2000]

And keep him warm enough to prevent shrinkage, though not a problem if you’re writing in the lesbian category.

This is Lit, so he will have an erect, perfect, nine-inch cock even in below-freezing temperatures.

 

[TheNovelist2000]

I've written two historical fiction stories set in very cold places. One was set on the Titanic in 1912 - Bad Things Happen on April 15 - and the other was set during the 'Big Freeze' of 1963, the frigid UK winter of 1962-1963 (Hot Sex in the Big Freeze). This weather event is referenced in the song 'Life In A Northern Town' by Dream Academy, with the line 'In winter 1963, it felt like the world would freeze..."

The amusing thing was that I wrote both during hot Australian weather of late summer and early autumn.

Awesome! I will check those stories out if they are on Lit.

 

[TheNovelist2000]

I’m in love with the idea I love to freezing cold and sex

The idea of remoteness and extreme cold just turns me on.

 

[TheNovelist2000]

e MCs have a badesvamp..

This is a good idea—very romantic! It would be even better in lesbian stories. I just love it when lesbians give each other sponge baths. It’s even better if one of them is highborn and the other is a maid.

 

[LFM90]

The idea of remoteness and extreme cold just turns me on.

I’m totally in love with the idea

 

[NuclearFairy]

I've found that one of the best ways to warm up is two naked bodies under a pile of blankets doing what naked bodies do best.

Also, if someone is hypothermic, do not stick them in hot shower or sauna or anything like that. The correct diy procedure is to cuddle with them under blankets to warm them up slowly. Warming up the extremities too fast would make the cold blood flow into the heart all at once, and that can be lethal.

I was taught in grade school to put them in a cool bath and to add only a little bit of warm water whenever your victim starts noticing that they're not in warm water.

I have noped out of so many otherwise promising stories though because they put the hypothermic person under a pile of blankets in another room before going to stoke the fire and just left them there expecting them to warm themselves up. It's like, "Welp, your love interest is dead, next story now."