Questions tagged [sex]
Questions about sex scenes, erotica, etc. Also see the "gender" tag.
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How can I put a short-term LGBTQ romance in a restricted environment?
In my epic fantasy tale, there is a small romantic sideplot. When the main group reaches a kingdom for work, the deutertagonist, while starting off as bitter, begins to develop feelings for the ...
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Would it be too controversial to have the antagonist "get the (protagonist's) girl"?
I'm considering the idea of the antagonist of getting the protagonist's girl (either temporarily or permanently). Various ideas I'm playing with:
the antagonist uses non-consensual manipulation to ...
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Using Labels on Character Sexuality (to add subtle worldbuilding)
For my fantasy story, I was thinking of having the characters say their sexuality, but in a different way. In most stories that do representation right, they show it, but do not directly say it. For ...
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Dialog during sex scenes
The question is whether the dialog should be written at all if the dialog during a sex scene doesn't serve any purpose. There's also this notion that a writer might feel shame when writing the dialog ...
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At what point would the romance and sexual feelings between different species be uncomfortable?
In my story, there are several relationships between humans and non-humans. While there are the usual with vampires and werewolves, there are also with anthromorphic animals as well.
Seeing how ...
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How far is too far with escalating sexual content?
I am writing about a main character who begins the story as a virgin, and over the course of the story escalates her sexual behavior from 1 on 1 heterosexual sex to prostitution and then to what might ...
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I want to write a gay sex scene. The characters are both virgins and I don't know how to do it without looking like a fool. Any advice?
I'm writing a book, and I feel like it would be right to include a sex scene.
Both characters are male, and both virgins as well, and I've never written a sex scene nor had sex.
I don't want it to be ...
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How to deal appropriately with an inappropriate sexual relationship
Part of the character arc for my main character from Can I conceal an antihero's insanity - and should I? is that she is a sociopath, prepared to do things that normal people would not. Part of ...
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Male viewpoint in an erotic novel
Most erotica today is written by and for women, and bestselling erotica is narrated from a female point of view. The "male pornographic gaze" that sexualizes the female body has been considered ...
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How much sex can I write if I'm after mainstream success?
I have three variations of the same storyline and cannot decide which one I want to write:
erotic story turning dark and dangerous
A young adult man and woman fall in love. It is the woman's first ...
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Many sexual situations, but no actual sex scenes?
My guile heroine's character arc is almost entirely sex and manipulation.
I tell (not show) she was a sex worker in the past, it's left ambiguous (likely) that she still is. She has powerplay scenes ...
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Are there certain keywords that Amazon expects one to use if one's genre fiction book contains sex scenes but doesn't really fall under erotica?
I’m having a lot of trouble with this issue, not least for the very fact that I am not even really sure what exactly ‘erotica’ means and how it differs from so-called ‘romance’ fiction that has ...
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Describing sex in a non-erotic fiction
How explicit should the scenes be? When writing any type of fiction I just skip to the day after the sex took place and heavily imply that the persons in question had sex. Is this ok? Is it better to ...
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I am afraid some scenes in my novel are too graphic for some people (Trigger warning: Sexual Assault)
Just to keep it short.
One of my characters is sexually assaulted by her father. While not being descriptive of the act itself, the situation itself is quite an sad scene.
This is relevant as the ...
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What is a subtle way of mentioning a man became physically aroused?
In my novel, I'm currently writing from a male's perspective and I need a bit of help. It's not an erotic book, but I'm writing a flashback from his teenage years which involves a bosom hug and I ...
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How do I draw attention to a girl's chest without making it overly lewd?
So, I have a group of main characters, and the current viewpoint character is going to introduce a... very well-endowed character. How do I write this so that I get the point across that she's that ...
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Should I avoid sex scenes / nudity in my horror game (or in general)?
As the title might suggest, I'm working on a horror video game, which happens to have a few sex scenes and a bit of nudity here and there - at least, that's what I planned to do. Just FYI: I don't ...
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How to research sex for writing?
I'm not writing erotica - I'm writing fantasy and sci-fi. But sometimes my characters make love, sometimes in ways I cannot be familiar with. In one story, it's two guys (I'm a girl). In another story,...
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Describing a strong sexual attraction (on first sight) [closed]
I wish to describe strong physical attraction on first sight by a human towards an alien. A Human meets an Alien but the Alien is extremely beautiful (sorry Humans!) and would wipe the floor of the ...
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Are there any stories with awkward first-time sex scenes between adults? [closed]
I know first-time sex scenes between adults do exist in the literature, but are there any stories with awkward first-time moments? By "adults", I am referring to the mid-to-late 20s or early 30s age ...
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How to write a good sex scene specifically for erotica?
This is unlike the question How to write good erotic scene?, which refers to a sub-plot of a novel in which two characters had sex. There the accepted answer essentially evades any detailed ...
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Is mild sexualization of minors allowed in writing?
Her clothes screamed bohemia, with a prominent cleavage, leather bands running up her arms and nails painted black.
In my book there is a romance between two 15-year-olds, and the book is from one of ...
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Would Amazon allow sex between transformed humans (animal/object) with normal humans
I'm concerned about what Amazon will allow since their guidelines are so vague, or in the case of what I am writing, a gray area.
In the stories I'm writing, human beings are transformed into ...
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How do I handle teenage sex in books for teenagers?
I am writing a book, in which the protagonists are two teenagers. They fell in love and it is time they were alone and had sex.
As long as the book is destined for teenagers from 15-19, I would like ...
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How do I write sexual tension between two characters?
So. This is one of my first projects, so I have to ask this. The story takes place in a dystopian future, where a young man and a young woman meet each other. They then try to overthrow the tyrannical ...
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Sex: How much is too much?
Regardless of genre, at what point does sex stop becoming art and become the erotic blubbering of a perverse mind?
Ever since middleschool my writing has had a sensual twist, and it has become more ...
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Intensity scale for romance novels?
I've been looking about on #MSWL on Twitter, and I see editors using some kind of informal scale for the intensity of the sexual content in a romance novel. For example: "sweet to hot," "erotic," "hot ...
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Fan works... are they allowed?
I've been - quite passionately - writing a lot of Pokémon fan-fiction. However, in contrast to Fan Fiction: a crutch or a good start?, I've been using it to build an entire world extending from canon. ...
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How explicit can violence and sex be in a YA novel?
Many of the most popular YA novels are pretty brutal, rape and murder are a common ingredient. Many show teenagers having sex. But how far can you go, before you cross the line into adult fiction, ...
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Know any metaphors about women that...?
... are very skilled in getting men to like them, men really easily fall in love with them, but they (the women) are not interested in anything more than a sexual relationship?
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How much sex is allowed in a non-romance novel?
Exactly how much sex would would most publishers allow to be in a today's novel? Does it vary from publisher to a publisher? I'm not talking about romance novels where apparently everything goes. I ...
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