The Senses

[impressive]

Rank the physical senses in terms of eroticism in written material contrasted to real life.

READING:
touch
smell
taste
sound
sight

REAL LIFE:
smell
taste
touch
sound
sight

When you write, do you endeavor to incorporate all the senses in a sex scene? Do you consciously look for this quality in what you read?

 

[razor_nut]

You absolutely must strive to include all the senses in your writing if you want a successful good story.

My personal rankings for BOTH.

sight
sound
touch
smell
taste

A little side fact, smell is the strongest sense tied to memory.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I can't seriously rank the senses, and I don't make a conscious efford to include them all when I write, but if any one of them isn't included in a story I read, its absence is loud and clamouring.

Stories that are all sight and (if you're lucky) touch and completely disregard the subtleties of sound and especially smell and taste are only too common, though...

 

[Guest]

This is tricky, so hard to choose!

READING:
touch
sight
taste
sound
smell

REAL LIFE:
touch
taste
smell
sound
sight

Yeah, I think that's about it, but it does all depend on the actual act at the time. For example, when giving a BJ, taste and sound would be higher in R/L. And the sight of him always does it for me, but actually during the act, especially if he is behind me, or if I'm blindfolded (hehehe), then that doesn't come into it.

Actually, once he put me through "sensory deprivation". I was blindfolded, gagged and had earplugs in. So, I couldn't see, hear or taste anything. It was all about touch and smell that time. It was absolutely amazing!!!

Lou

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Sound
Sight
Tought
Smell
Taste

 

[impressive]

... but if any one of them isn't included in a story I read, its absence is loud and clamouring.

I agree -- and I'm thinking this just might be "THE" back-click characteristic that I've been trying to articulate in dr_m's thread.

 

[razor_nut]

Re: Re: The Senses

Yeah, I think that's about it, but it does all depend on the actual act at the time. For example, when giving a BJ, taste and sound would be higher in R/L. And the sight of him always does it for me, but actually during the act, especially if he is behind me, or if I'm blindfolded (hehehe), then that doesn't come into it.

Actually, once he put me through "sensory deprivation". I was blindfolded, gagged and had earplugs in. So, I couldn't see, hear or taste anything. It was all about touch and smell that time. It was absolutely amazing!!!

Lou

http://eagledbzrpg.com/john/smilies/desk%20rockin.gif

 

[Guest]

I agree with Lauren.

Perdita

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I include them all usually, but I have a thing for the smell of an aroused woman and the taste of her body. I can't imagine NOT including them in most works. I will Occasionally miss a sense in a scene, but I think it's very rare I don't include them all in a story.

 

[neonlyte]

Difficult this to answer. Huge amounts of my writing are devoted to sensory perception, or the lack of it. The area I'm weakest on is sound.

Sight
Touch
Smell
Taste
Sound

Probably in that order for both, but so much depends upon the story.

The sound I'd like most to include in my writing is silence. Haven't yet figured out how to do that.

 

[Liar]

Sound
Sight
Tought
Smell
Taste

Freudian slip or intentional? Damn right anyway, I say..


My list:

Some kind of subconscious impression thingy I can't pinpoint.
Sound
Thought
Sight
Touch
The rest

#L

 

[Guest]

Liar, you perceptive hombre. Joe slipping on thought for touch made me larf outloud. How appropriately accidental.

Perdita

 

[Honey123]

Rank the physical senses in terms of eroticism in written material contrasted to real life.

READING:
touch
smell
taste
sound
sight

REAL LIFE:
smell
taste
touch
sound
sight

When you write, do you endeavor to incorporate all the senses in a sex scene? Do you consciously look for this quality in what you read?

In both reading and real life:

sight
touch
smell
taste
sound

 

[Guest]

 

[Honey123]

I couldn't rank them. How could you differentiate

The smell of her perfume on a pillow as you wake and see the face of your love

The sight her emerging from the shower. The tropical air heavy with the aroma of shampoo

The sound of her climax with her nails imbedded in your back.

The taste of her as she pulls your hair and presses you closer in sweet suffocation

It's all intertwined, separating them or assigning more significance to one over the other is impossible; the sense are all working simultaneously and synergistically.

That's beautiful...

I guess for me sight doesn't necessarily mean a handsome or goodlooking man -- it can be the way his shirt sleeves are rolled up and I can see a muscular forearm...or the way his pants are unbuttoned just so

Touch could be the way he brushes my hair back just before he kisses me.

Yes...I understand exactly how you feel,Lime

 

[impressive]

... the sense are all working simultaneously and synergistically.

Yes, and when that is missing from a story ... I lose interest.

 

[Honey123]

Yes, and when that is missing from a story ... I lose interest.

Hmmm..and real life