Must sex always have a happy ending?

[amicus]

AMICUS

Life was so much more fun when I was a liberal and my head was stuck in my ass. I was narcissistic enough to believe it was all my fault. When thieves stole everything I owned (to buy drugs), I felt empathy and compassion and love for them. I was so pathetic my local commune rented a tractor and chain to pull my head out of my ass. Even the comrades wouldnt go as far as me.

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I still sense you carry some residue from your liberal days, but I think no one else does and I think you have things to say that I cannot to these clowns as I never had the disease.

Work on that head in ass syndrome, it is epidemic on this forum, perhaps a warming oil?

heh...

Amicus...

 

[elsol]

The story doesn't have to have a happy ending... it must simply be returned to a state of equilibrium.

 

[damppanties]

I have not,as of yet, written a piece where one character enjoys the sex and the other does not.

I have. And it's amazing the kind of reactions I get to that story. People are unable to believe that my female character didn't enjoy the sex. They keep reacting to it thinking she did. It's her story, and they read it as the male character's story. I have no idea whether it's my failure as a writer or just people not getting it.

In answer to Charley's question, no, erotica doesn't need to have a happily ever after ending. But it's rarely successful/popular if you don't have a HEA. If you're writing erotica for the common reader, with the intent of people getting off, your point is to make them aroused, etc. That really doesn't go with unhappy endings.

That said, I just realised a lot of my stories don't have a happy ending. Hmmm.

 

[Frank Noir]

Now you and everyone else can blow this off by noting that 'stroke' stories also have a purpose and they don't need a plot or a deep philosophical or moral or ethical foundation and ignore my thoughts, that's fine.

But even a wank story says something; about the author and about his or her sense of life and chosen message.

Good point.

I always insist that I write sex stories purely for the stroke value - but at the same time I realize that the stories inevitably reflect who I am and how I view the world.

In my case, my basically unrealistic fantasy scenarios reveal a naïve dream about sex as a liberating force. In my stories - or at least somewhere towards the end of each story - all focus is on sexual pleasure. And the pleasure is - or has become free from guilt, shame, (gender) politics etc. Though often to the surprise of at least one of the characters.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm reading your stories from now on, Bonfils

 

[CharleyH]

Good point.

I always insist that I write sex stories purely for the stroke value - but at the same time I realize that the stories inevitably reflect who I am and how I view the world.

This is intriguing, I was just thinking about it (not you sorry) but about how our stories reflect us. Example: In my life, I grew up in the restaurant business, my parents were/ are restaurateurs and food is an important part of many of my stories. I describe sex like a fine wine or as in one sipping pussy case, like the taste of a truffle. I was noting to my SO, Lauren, just today that she wrote stories as if she were writing architectural designs, which makes sense since she's an architect. It interests me whether or not we all write something of our interests or passions into our stories. Perhaps its best left for another thread discussion, though.