sunandshadow
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It occurred to me recently that some of the most powerfully erotic stories I've encountered have presented sex as making things happen. Often this is a destructive progress - making a person less independent and defiant, more animalistic, less respectable, less athletic/mobile in the case of some fetishes. On the other hand, I've seen sex presented as causing positive changes, but usually this is a one-time transformation rather than a progression - becoming a shapeshifter or otherwise awakening special powers, becoming an adult by losing virginity, becoming pregnant, consummating a marriage.
So I was wondering, can you think of any way that sex could be presented as more of a continuous positive progress, like evolution or military/magical training; I'm thinking that a typical fantasy hero would go through a long period of sex and somehow emerge heroically powered-up and ready to take on the world. But usually sex is in opposition to worldly success, it's tough to learn or accomplish strategic goals while you're busy screwing, especially without weakening the intensity of emotion.
So, let me toss out the ideas I have so far:
- A vague strange idea that human beings might be like plants which need sex to grow and flower and fruit.
- I wrote a story called Howl Together where a human and intelligent wolf sexuallymerge into one werewolf. But the problem with that was that they would eventually lose their individuality, and so instead of the merging being constructive and enabling each character to learn and grow, it's ultimately destructive because only one adult character will remain where there used to be two teenagers. So instead I was thinking maybe a more distant kind of psychic connection like an empathic bond, and a partial or temporary physical connection like that between a mecha and its pilot.
- I read this quote by another erotica author: "Open up, let others in, learn how to respond and care for others before you can access the true ability to live. The ability to procreate - and thus by extension the sexual act - is the most powerful and possesive drive we have. Why shouldn't it be a source of immense power?" Looking for some sort of science-fictional, fantastic, or surreal way to take "Let others in" literally, I thought perhaps human souls could be a bit amoeba-like and learn a small piece of their partner's abilities each time they unite?
- Or then there's the cliche notion of the hero integrating the power of sex into himself and transcending it, which I guess would be something like the ability to act normally or even superiorly in the world while feeling a continuous orgasm, maybe even be glowing red and able to shoot beams of hearts, rotfl. Stupid idea.
- J.G. Ballard's _The Unlimited Dream Company_ is a beautiful surreal tale of a man's sexual transformation into a god, and I was thinking it would be interesting to tell a story where some marooned high-tech people reverted to tribalism and found the power of their various totem animals emerging from inside them. I'm not so good at writing surrealism though...
- Also there was that idea in Vernor Vinge's _A Fire Upon the Deep_, where the Tines, being collective intelligences, use selective breeding to improve their offspring and thus their own future mental abilities. But I kind of wanted to do something with more normal human minds, not collective intelligences.
Any opinions on these ideas, or suggestions of other ideas?
So I was wondering, can you think of any way that sex could be presented as more of a continuous positive progress, like evolution or military/magical training; I'm thinking that a typical fantasy hero would go through a long period of sex and somehow emerge heroically powered-up and ready to take on the world. But usually sex is in opposition to worldly success, it's tough to learn or accomplish strategic goals while you're busy screwing, especially without weakening the intensity of emotion.
So, let me toss out the ideas I have so far:
- A vague strange idea that human beings might be like plants which need sex to grow and flower and fruit.
- I wrote a story called Howl Together where a human and intelligent wolf sexuallymerge into one werewolf. But the problem with that was that they would eventually lose their individuality, and so instead of the merging being constructive and enabling each character to learn and grow, it's ultimately destructive because only one adult character will remain where there used to be two teenagers. So instead I was thinking maybe a more distant kind of psychic connection like an empathic bond, and a partial or temporary physical connection like that between a mecha and its pilot.
- I read this quote by another erotica author: "Open up, let others in, learn how to respond and care for others before you can access the true ability to live. The ability to procreate - and thus by extension the sexual act - is the most powerful and possesive drive we have. Why shouldn't it be a source of immense power?" Looking for some sort of science-fictional, fantastic, or surreal way to take "Let others in" literally, I thought perhaps human souls could be a bit amoeba-like and learn a small piece of their partner's abilities each time they unite?
- Or then there's the cliche notion of the hero integrating the power of sex into himself and transcending it, which I guess would be something like the ability to act normally or even superiorly in the world while feeling a continuous orgasm, maybe even be glowing red and able to shoot beams of hearts, rotfl. Stupid idea.
- J.G. Ballard's _The Unlimited Dream Company_ is a beautiful surreal tale of a man's sexual transformation into a god, and I was thinking it would be interesting to tell a story where some marooned high-tech people reverted to tribalism and found the power of their various totem animals emerging from inside them. I'm not so good at writing surrealism though...
- Also there was that idea in Vernor Vinge's _A Fire Upon the Deep_, where the Tines, being collective intelligences, use selective breeding to improve their offspring and thus their own future mental abilities. But I kind of wanted to do something with more normal human minds, not collective intelligences.
Any opinions on these ideas, or suggestions of other ideas?
