What's your favorite trope?

[WrongFrog]

I did do a search! This exact question hasn't been asked recently enough to show up in the results, so I'm asking.

What is your absolute favorite erotica trope to write? The plot line that's been done a billion times but you still want to put your own twists and turns on it?

Mine are all over the place. I write all sorts of things, and a bunch of it has no romantic or erotic elements at all, but there's a few kinds of sexy stories I find myself playing with over and over again.

I love Rockstar romances. I love mindfuck style horrotica. And I love sweet, shy, gentle characters discovering their darker kinky side.

So, what's your favorite "we all know how this ends" trope to write?

 

[Mastered_again]

Girl meets guy. Sparks fly. She's reluctant, but succumbs to her desire. The end.

Oh, and sooner or later, there's anal to cement their relationship.

 

[AchtungNight]

Sex is good when done between friends and everything is kept consensual and enjoyable for all parties involved. Everyone respects boundaries when necessary- avoiding unshared kinks, respecting orientation, etc. Sometimes people wish to stretch their boundaries and they can comfortably do so, revealing that they had the wrong position on their boundaries all along- and that's okay! Or they notice no change or annoyance or worse when they try to stretch the boundaries, so they don't stretch them, and again, everyone stays friends. Unless there's bad guys involved, and in that case those bad guys inevitably wind up dead, in jail, or slinking off in defeat never to bother the good guys unnecessarily again. The good guys then get back to their responsible fun orgies and continue enjoying their lives.

Not like reality, I know. But I need my stories because reality is not like them. And it feels good to live in fantasy land. And maybe someday either reality will become more like fantasy or I'll get to rest. The latter is more likely, I know, but I can dream.

Good People Enjoy Lots of Good Sex is another trope I enjoy. Friends, lonely men and women, celebrities and fans, siblings and cousins attracted to each other and not playing power games, people enjoying other kinks that are compatible with mine..., all can get together and have fun if they so choose. It stays consensual and enjoyable, people choose love and are rewarded with satisfaction. Again, not like life, but that's why we write and read fantasy, is it not?

 

[TheLobster]

Someone discovers someone else masturbating and decides to help. Often incest, but doesn't have to be.

 

[THBGato]

Funnily enough, I wrote an essay/review about this recently: "Oh no, there's only one bed!"

 

[StillStunned]

A disproportionate number of my stories have some kind of voyeur element, for better or for worse.

 

[AlexBailey]

I like ‘coming out’ stories, whether it’s orientation, gender, or a variety of kinks. It’s that shift of overcoming one paradigm and embracing a whole new experience.

 

[THBGato]

I like ‘coming out’ stories

Seconded! Love those too.

 

[AchtungNight]

A disproportionate number of my stories have some kind of voyeur element, for better or for worse.

Voyeur is fun for me too. After all, a reader is always a voyeur.

 

[karina_jayde]

Enemies to lovers is a fun one. Starting a story as bitter foes, trying to hurt/kill each other, then shifting to lust or even love, is a delight. Not something I'd ever want to experience in real life, of course, but I love it in fiction.

Mistaken identities is another fun trope. It's one reason why I like masquerade stuff so much. The idea of hooking up with someone, then later finding out their real identity, is quite hot, especially if there's a taboo element. In an old draft of a fantasy story, a knight showed up to a palace and hook up with who he thought was just a horny maid, but who turned out to be the wife of the lord he was visiting (who had disguised herself as a made all as part of a cruel, teasing game). That made for all sorts of fun shenanigans when the knight found out who she really was. Tempted to turn that into a standalone thing, just for the thrill of writing that trope.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Getting to know someone slowly after meeting them casually in some day to day context - like the daily commute, the regular cafe, the same shop.

 

[MrPixel]

Intentionally answering the door naked.

 

[lovecraft68]

The friend's hot mom angle. I've written a ton of them and its one of my go to when it comes to porn

Older couple with young woman

Siblings but with an air of affection, not stroker pieces

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Funnily enough, I wrote an essay/review about this recently: "Oh no, there's only one bed!"

I've used that, once when trying an I/T story (even called Only One Bed, Again!) and once in a First Time story based on a real ex of mine. I often have characters snuggling up against the cold, too.

I tend to have characters in environments where they admit they want sex, but other emotions come more slowly.

In my current draft I realised I'd written yet another scene where A admires B in the shower. Wet glistening clean bodies - what's not to like? At least I managed to avoid describing a full English breakfast this time. And while it's set half in a hotel, it's not a Premier Inn, who really should be paying me for their advertising! TBF, I changed the name of a crap hotel to Sleepylodge.

 

[MyBareTorso]

Hot, young, muscular, well hung guy removes or loses his clothes with clothed women present, in various permutations. MILF stories, teen stories, fantasy stories etc etc, but the basic dramatic fulcrum is always CFNM. Sorry, it's all I do...but I LOVE it!

 

[RetroFan]

Not necessarily erotic, but I really enjoy blonde, brunette redhead, like the girls from Archie who are Betty (blonde), Veronica (brunette) and Cheryl (redhead).

I use it all the time, like my last story about the Titanic where Emma is blonde, her sister Charlotte redhead, and the family's maid Jane is a brunette.

 

[Yarglenurp]

Wife/gf doing something with another that they wouldn't do with their husband/bf. Whether it's a threesome from her wild days, anal sex with her current affair partner, or a blowjob on her bull in a cuckold relationship, there's something so hot about the idea that "she's doing it, just not with you."

I wish there was a tag for it.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I did do a search! This exact question hasn't been asked recently enough to show up in the results, so I'm asking.

What is your absolute favorite erotica trope to write? The plot line that's been done a billion times but you still want to put your own twists and turns on it?

Mine are all over the place. I write all sorts of things, and a bunch of it has no romantic or erotic elements at all, but there's a few kinds of sexy stories I find myself playing with over and over again.

I love Rockstar romances. I love mindfuck style horrotica. And I love sweet, shy, gentle characters discovering their darker kinky side.

So, what's your favorite "we all know how this ends" trope to write?

If I have one.... Not sure I do....
It would probably be shifting boundaries within a relationship.
Long term relationships intrigue me...People are usually attracted by similar things. They like the same food, books, movies, TV shows.
They have small groups of friends.
As they grow, their shpere of friends and acquaintances grow.
Their minds are opened to new concepts.
Familiarity within the relationship has possibly caused a slowdown in communications. Things going unsaid.
Then the boundaries of their relationship are tested by one partner.
As we grow older, we may also grow apart.
Different things interest us....
I love the conversations that surround such situations. How would we deal with them.
What would we say.....
Of course everybody says. "I'd never stand for that."
Until they're actually in that situation, and their whole world is about to change....
What do they do next....
I can almost guarantee, it won't be what they expected....
Remember. I speak only for myself. It's an opinion... Nothing more.

So, is it a trope... Or just a question....

Maybe it's just life.

Cagivagurl.

 

[Badxxxwifey]

I did do a search! This exact question hasn't been asked recently enough to show up in the results, so I'm asking.

What is your absolute favorite erotica trope to write? The plot line that's been done a billion times but you still want to put your own twists and turns on it?

Mine are all over the place. I write all sorts of things, and a bunch of it has no romantic or erotic elements at all, but there's a few kinds of sexy stories I find myself playing with over and over again.

I love Rockstar romances. I love mindfuck style horrotica. And I love sweet, shy, gentle characters discovering their darker kinky side.

So, what's your favorite "we all know how this ends" trope to write?

Always wanted to write a story where I’m a fan girl who gets to meet the band XD

 

[intim8]

What is your absolute favorite erotica trope to write? The plot line that's been done a billion times but you still want to put your own twists and turns on it?

A bunch of naked people in a place together not having sex.

Sure, some or all of them probably will, but for the moment, it's innocent.

 

[AchtungNight]

Love and Friendship triumphing over adversity, angst, despair, and everything else awful in this world.

 

[Zootonius]

Older woman, college aged guy. Add tits for good measure.

 

[Yarglenurp]

Love and Friendship triumphing over adversity, angst, despair, and everything else awful in this world.

I've read some crazy shit on this site and in my life, but this pure fantasy. At least make it a little realistic.

 

[AchtungNight]

I've read some crazy shit on this site and in my life, but this pure fantasy. At least make it a little realistic.

I write to hold back the tide of despair, not reinforce it. And sometimes love and friendship do triumph in reality, so there you go.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Friends to lovers. It's a super easy way to get two characters to an emotionally resonant place without going through all the minutiae of their dating, etc. The bigger problem is usually "why not before now," but there's plenty of easy ways out there.

For Loving Wives in particular (most of these are not erotic):
The One Slip-Up - Most people won't accept a long-term affair, but what about a one-time mistake? Whether drunkenness, lust, anger, etc., that offers a lot more grist for the "will they/won't they divorce" mill.
Too Late To Do Anything Now - The aggrieved spouse learns of the affair long after the fact, sometimes when the unfaithful spouse is dead, sometimes when they've raised the kid they always through was theirs, etc. All by itself, it can be very powerful, but combined with the above trope, it adds a certain extra level of force.
Not My Kid, Maybe - The wife is pregnant, but the timing is such that it may or may not be the husband's kid. If it isn't, but they already have kids, does that change the calculus for what to do next? The inverse is also true; what if they don't have kids, but it is his? A great way to raise the stakes.
The Other Vows - Yeah, cheating is great and all (it's not), but what about the other vows? Or even the "usual" vow, with a twist? I've written two of these so far and am planning more: "In Health," about a marriage that comes apart after the wife's miraculous recovery from a long-term illness; and "Also-Ran," about a wife who didn't "forsake all others," but only in that she pined for her ex for the duration of her marriage. I have "In Sickness" planned, and a seed for "For Better," too.