How to start an orgy...

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

This may be an extremely broad question, but I'm hoping to get some opinions on the best way to get to a group sex scene in a story. Typically, I avoid it and I've found myself writing massive plot swings to justify the exclusion of big climactic orgies, even when there's been 10 000 words of build-up.

'Far fetched' doesn't worry me. Even when I'm writing stories where 90% of the content relies on a massive suspension of disbelief, I still can't write the two or three paragraphs that would start a group scene. Honestly, I think I'd be able to write the sex just fine once it gets going, but I can't seem to get the ball rolling.

I'm hoping some of the more experienced writers here have a little advice for me.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Multiple options:

1. Impromptu. A couple is making love. Another couple notices them and joins in, then another...
   
   
2. It's all planned. Multiple people agree to get wild. A time and place is chosen. People show up, clothes go flying.
   
   
3. It's set in a sex club or swingers' facility, a place where nudity and sex are essentially continuous. People arrive, join in, come and go, so to speak.
   
   
4. It's a meditative or quasi-religious ritual. Members or believers are expected to join in. (One or six of those in my plot bunny file.)
   

Et cetera.

 

[AvroAnson]

Formal (Written on real stationary): Mr. and Mrs. Staney Uppercrust III request your presence at our Valentine's day sex party. 8PM Friday evening February 12, 2021 at 1234 Society Lane, Utopian Village ... Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served, dress is 'none', Trojans and K-Y will be provided, Please RSVP by Wednesday February 10...

Informal: "Hon, Bert and Ernie just called and said they'd be happy to come by tomorrow night after work. So be sure to get enough ribs for seven when you stop by Tony Roma's."

"Great, I have K-Y and Fleet Enemas on the shopping list--"

"Yeah, Bert loves your butt ..."

"Your's too, sweetie-pie. Hey, can you pick up my yellow boa from the cleaners too. It drives Luis wild when I wear nothing but the boa and the matching pumps."

"Done."

"I don't know why Gina calls you a grouch, Oscar."

"Me neither."

From my past: "Clip-Clop" my beechwood sandals say as I walk across the tile floor to the sound of a key in front door's lock. Other than my shoes I am naked.

"Hi Zane," I say after kissing him quickly, "how was work."

"Okay ... Honey," he says. Before kissing me back and motioning to his right, "I brought you ..."

"We brought dinner," said our pal. Gary was holding a bag from the neighborhood Thai restaurant.

"Hi gorgeous," says Gary.

"And this is Jimmy," Zane says, "they will be our guests for the evening."

"Hi," says Jimmy, "I brought the beer," indicating two 'sixes' that he's holding.

"Well come on in," I say.

 

[AlinaX]

You have a gathering of people, eating, drinking, whatever, and if it's a prearranged orgy then maybe there's a dress code that has everyone relatively exposed, but either way one couple either furtively or obviously decides to get physical and it's a catalyst for others to pair up - or whatever.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm working on two group sex stories right now, so it's a pertinent topic for me. In one, a college student visits a friend of hers at another college, as well as his three roommates, and she gets more and more daring until it results in sex with the four roommates.

In another, a professional woman indulges a "bus sex" fantasy through a secretive club that invites select people to board a bus that drives around the city while the invitee is groped and has sex with multiple people.

I approach the issue in two ways. One is to come up with a plot concept -- a creative way for getting people into a group sex situation. The bus story is like that. The other is to focus on character and look at the group sex -- or any culminating sexual activity -- as the culmination of something being sought or needed by the character. My college story is more like this. All five of the main characters are exploring the pushing of their boundaries, and eventually they push to the point of group sex. If you look at it as a form of character development you can focus on what they are thinking and feeling and you don't have to focus so much in being clever about how it happens.

 

[tomlitilia]

I don't think I fully understand the question. Is it the actual sex or the transition into sex that's the problem? I have a fair few group sex stories (not all of which are posted in Group Sex), and I don't think I approach it any differently than I do one-on-one sex. Certainly, there are more players involved, but the grand (gang)bang is still just the climax of a build-up. Maybe it's easier if you think about what plot/arc the orgy resolves?

 

[TxRad]

Throw a half dozen naked people in a bed and stand back. Works every time.

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

Thanks for all the insights, so far. Really helpful!

I don't think I fully understand the question. Is it the actual sex or the transition into sex that's the problem? I have a fair few group sex stories (not all of which are posted in Group Sex), and I don't think I approach it any differently than I do one-on-one sex. Certainly, there are more players involved, but the grand (gang)bang is still just the climax of a build-up. Maybe it's easier if you think about what plot/arc the orgy resolves?

You make a really good point, and I think all the advice has convinced me that I do a fair bit of overthinking. Where I definitely struggle is making the transition seem natural in the text. Unlike a one-on-one scene, I feel it's a whole new set of emotions that I have little/no experience with. Two people might have a romantic connection, hell the same might be true for ten people, but what about the 'third parties' that get swept up in the moment? I really want to fine tune that, and the stuff I have in my drafts right now seems clunky.

 

[AvroAnson]

Throw a half dozen naked people in a bed and stand back. Works every time.

My experience is that the bed is optional.

 

[yowser]

My first thought was that this question belonged in the 'How to...' section.

My second? ....

 

[Kumquatqueen]

This time, at band camp...

You could have couple A and B eyeing up C and D. Or three people all have their eye on one other and decide to go for it at the same time. Nervous singleton looks round,.someone decides to look after them... It's still interactions between two.people, just lots of them.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

My experience is that the bed is optional.

My experience is that if it's more than half a dozen people, it's not good for the bed.

And even steel bedframe manufacturers won't consider it fair wear and tear or normal use covered under their guarantee...

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

This time, at band camp...

You could have couple A and B eyeing up C and D. Or three people all have their eye on one other and decide to go for it at the same time. Nervous singleton looks round,.someone decides to look after them... It's still interactions between two.people, just lots of them.

This is such a great way of putting it!

 

[PennameWombat]

You have a gathering of people, eating, drinking, whatever, and if it's a prearranged orgy then maybe there's a dress code that has everyone relatively exposed, but either way one couple either furtively or obviously decides to get physical and it's a catalyst for others to pair up - or whatever.

This is essentially what I did in Chasing Robes & Shadows. My MC is an undercover policewoman assigned to the vice squad. She's wrangled an invitation to a 'high society' sex party because she'd heard a young woman she's hunting for will be there.

This time, at band camp...

You could have couple A and B eyeing up C and D. Or three people all have their eye on one other and decide to go for it at the same time. Nervous singleton looks round,.someone decides to look after them... It's still interactions between two.people, just lots of them.

Even though the attendees all know it's a sex party, plenty are going to need a fair amount of warm-up to get fully involved. But the sex party is somewhat apart from the main plotline, its role in this story is about the setup, from my MC's POV (she's not there to party.)

There are bowls of lube and condoms spread around the multi-level house. Also, CD players (it's the 1980s) with 'mood' music. As noted by my MC, family pictures and mementos have been hidden so no one has to look at pictures of cherubic children while they get naked with eight other people. There's a pool and as described by other posters on this thread, one brave couple goes out there and gets busy and that attracts a crowd and more slowly get involved by and in the pool.

But there's also ample liquor and cocaine. And, there are three 'professionals,' two women and a man, who were hired to mingle and 'encourage' things along. One of these women gees up a crowd of 'shy' people by flirting and dancing until they, well, get going.

The party is actually cover for more nefarious dealings amongst the hostess, the young woman and a mysterious stranger who is not exactly a denizen of high society. He's a terrorist, part of a plot led by the hostess and he's recruiting for her in Europe, they want the young woman involved because of some connections she has to potential weapons suppliers. The offer of an orgy by the hostess was to get the young woman to show. The MC doesn't know about this plot, she has other reasons for chasing the young woman.

Anyway, my MC is forced to make a hasty exit so we don't SEE most of the subsequent heavy orgy action.

 

[Bramblethorn]

If it's not a prearranged orgy, then one of the important questions is what happens to make the sex drive overcome inhibitions.

A fairly common story solution is to add some external factor that's stronger than people's inhibitions. Alien sex pollen, blackmail, "here's a million dollars if you fuck", etc. etc. are some unsubtle options for achieving that. Or by dint of compelling writing you can you can just make the force of sexual desire really persuasive by good writing (easier said than done).

The other approach you can take is to reduce inhibitions. Alcohol and other drugs are an obvious option there, but it's more satisfying if you can sell it through plot and character - what happens to make people more comfortable with breaking taboos?

I've written two group-ish scenes in my Literotica stories which took different approaches to this.

In "The Floggings Will Continue..." the desire is there from the start, but there are obstacles: as well as the standard inhibitions about having sex in front of one's co-workers, the attraction is V-shaped, and the two people at the ends of the 'V' really don't like one another.

The former is resolved by external influence: an outside agent uses psychological manipulation techniques to undermine everybody's inhibitions. The latter comes from those two people working out their issues and learning to respect one another. I'm pretty happy with how that story turned out; I think it would've been weaker if I hadn't had both those aspects at work to make the sex scene plausible.

In "Anjali's Red Scarf" chapter 10, it comes partly from characters taking time to build rapport, and partly from a "you don't believe me? hold my beer and watch this!" kind of moment based on what I'd established about the character up to that point.

You don't have to do any of this, of course. But I love it when a story puts in the work to sell how some unusual scene could have come about.

 

[AlexBailey]

Create a scene and a event or predicament that provides the opportunity-- all the right crowd needs is an excuse.



A victory party for a sports team.

A natural disaster blocks the road to a remote resort.

A ship wreck or a disabled cruise ship.

College anything

Company mandated training

Kinky wedding

Mysterious award ceremony

Pleasure party

Train caught in a snow storm

School reunion

 

[NotWise]

This may be an extremely broad question, but I'm hoping to get some opinions on the best way to get to a group sex scene in a story. Typically, I avoid it and I've found myself writing massive plot swings to justify the exclusion of big climactic orgies, even when there's been 10 000 words of build-up.

This sounds like you're not really into writing the orgy.

So don't.

Don't force yourself or your characters into anything they aren't ready for. I couldn't count the number of times that my characters told me "no."

 

[AvroAnson]

All the right crowd needs is an excuse. ...

Like: "Sex is fun."

 

[Bramblethorn]

This sounds like you're not really into writing the orgy.

So don't.

Don't force yourself or your characters into anything they aren't ready for. I couldn't count the number of times that my characters told me "no."

Yeah, this. I said "group-ish" in my previous post because the second one I mentioned there didn't quite end up as group sex. It was intended to be, but when I got there it didn't feel like the third character would say yes. So she ended up as an awkward spectator instead. It wasn't where I'd meant to go with it, but it felt right and it was just as interesting.

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

This sounds like you're not really into writing the orgy.

So don't.

Don't force yourself or your characters into anything they aren't ready for. I couldn't count the number of times that my characters told me "no."

Yeah. I think that’s what it comes down to. There’s definitely one draft that I really want to finish, but right now the characters are still saying "no."

 

[SexyShel]

In my experience it very much depends on the setting.

If your at a sex club then an orgy is easy to get started as a room would probably be designated as open play, which means anyone going in there is expecting to be approached for sex. Does not mean you have to agree to the approach of course. But sooner or later there will be many people in close proximity having sex, with involvement, ie touching of others and swapping of partners.

A house party is much more difficult as people are usually talking about mostly mundane things, such as holidays or mortgages. It needs a few brave souls to get that party started!
It normally happens that a few people will go to a bedroom then others will drift in and join in.

Shel

 

[MColton84]

This sounds like you're not really into writing the orgy.

So don't.

Don't force yourself or your characters into anything they aren't ready for. I couldn't count the number of times that my characters told me "no."

100% agree. Getting the action started is easy enough, but if you or your characters aren't interested in a sex act, your writing will reflect it.

 

[tomlitilia]

You're god and can change the characters to ones that says yes, if you want.

 

[MColton84]

Well said.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Writing A Transition to Orgy

The first thing to do is step back a little bit and plot it out. The start of all orgies takes the same form and falls into three broad categories.

1. Pre-Planned Orgy: All the characters have gathered in one place with the intention of having an orgy.
2. Environment Conducive to Orgy: All the characters have gathered in one place with the fore-knowledge that it might become an orgy.
3. Spontaneous Orgy: The orgy develops naturally out of the circumstances.

So, first, you would get all characters into the environment. Then, the transition from orgy to non-orgy flows like this:

1. A character takes the first step. The realistic start to an orgy is one character kisses another character, then more characters kiss and fondle, then one set of characters initiates sex, then other characters follow. Orgies, even preplanned ones, are organic events. Think of it as a fire - it starts with a spark, and then spreads slowly or rapidly.

Of course, there are dozens of variations possible within there that the author can choose to move the story forward. but every one starts the same. A character takes an action and then that action ripples through the participants.