Confession -- but buried far enough down probably you'll be the only reader of it. I have written "hot sex scenes" (or as hot as I could manage) in both my h/d stories BECAUSE they were fest fics and required sex. The first one, especially, I always felt was contrived (but then, I'd never written to others' requests before, so I was scrambling a lot to make it fun for her, and also not look like a terrible writer my first time out.) I'm working on a sequel for that, and there's no sex in it, just because it didn't fit, not because it's wrong.
The second one had a sex scene in the middle I considered part of the story, but not terribly vividly sexual -- not down to the "tab a and slot b" as the primary descriptor in the scene. The second was a present for someone, and I tried to make it "hot" for me as well. I like innuendos and emotional reactions... in other people's fics, I do love well-done first times, because they resolve UST in me. But if there's a lot of sex scenes in a story, I tend to skim or just skip them, because... well, it's pretty hard to read about other people's sex lives in an established relationship and find it either erotic or character developing!
Well, read my essay -- I'd never thought of sex fics as a distinct genre, being proud enough to have come up with the original genre division of literary/commercial/fan . But it makes total sense to me now, which to me is a mark that I could well be right! So your comment encourages me very much. (Someday I plan to publish all these as an academic publication, so comments may affect this -- it's on the way to being a good paper, I think.)
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Date: 2008-06-04 11:45 pm (UTC)The second one had a sex scene in the middle I considered part of the story, but not terribly vividly sexual -- not down to the "tab a and slot b" as the primary descriptor in the scene. The second was a present for someone, and I tried to make it "hot" for me as well. I like innuendos and emotional reactions... in other people's fics, I do love well-done first times, because they resolve UST in me. But if there's a lot of sex scenes in a story, I tend to skim or just skip them, because... well, it's pretty hard to read about other people's sex lives in an established relationship and find it either erotic or character developing!
Well, read my essay -- I'd never thought of sex fics as a distinct genre, being proud enough to have come up with the original genre division of literary/commercial/fan . But it makes total sense to me now, which to me is a mark that I could well be right! So your comment encourages me very much. (Someday I plan to publish all these as an academic publication, so comments may affect this -- it's on the way to being a good paper, I think.)