Skipping over sex: if it's ikea, if I'm really into the story for the plot and it's the second (or third or tenth) sex scene and I'm getting bored, if it's clearly there merely because the author felt there should be one, if it hits my embarrassment squick or sometimes I'm just not in the mood.
My feelings on sex scenes as a reader has changed over the course of my fannish involvement, mostly to that I’m a lot less embarrassed that I enjoy some of them and am willing to look for pwp, if that’s what I’m in the mood for.
My general sense for stories with sex scenes getting more attention has to do, I think, with the stories that I typically read. As my delicious tags will show, I like gen but I really really love shippy stories. If a story is really good at selling the ship, that author is probably talented enough to write a decent sex scene (so the sex scene isn't the cause of the attention, just an effect of having a good writer and the general perception by authors that the payoff of all shippy fics is the sex). That's my theory anyway.
A good sex scene should: sell me on the ship, sell me on the mood of the story, and sell me on the characters involved.
Purpose of sex in fanfic, well, that depends on the story, doesn't it? If it's a short, first time shippy fic, it's almost expected the payoff will be sex. I don't agree that it HAS to be, but it's the easiest/most used shorthand for intimacy and cementing a shift in relationship to coupledom (that is so a word).
What I would almost never like to see again: someone saying "come for me". It very very rarely works for me and I wager I see it in about 20% of sex scenes I read. Half the time I'm like, no, that person definitely would have started laughing or something if you had done that. And, seriously, if you're going to go there, could you switch up the wording or something? Work a little harder to make it fit that couple(threesome...).
What I would like to see more of...frontage! I love frontage because it has the "actively working to orgasm together" thing that penetrative sex often has (that blow jobs and hand jobs don't always do as well) without the prep or supplies. I'd like to see less of a reliance on penetrative sex as the ultimate intimacy symbolically without actually selling me on that couple having that intimacy. I'd actually really love to see more discussion of limits and preferences before-hand and exploration during. I mean, sometimes "fuck me right now" works for a character/pairing, but sometimes it doesn't.
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Date: 2010-02-12 05:45 am (UTC)My feelings on sex scenes as a reader has changed over the course of my fannish involvement, mostly to that I’m a lot less embarrassed that I enjoy some of them and am willing to look for pwp, if that’s what I’m in the mood for.
My general sense for stories with sex scenes getting more attention has to do, I think, with the stories that I typically read. As my delicious tags will show, I like gen but I really really love shippy stories. If a story is really good at selling the ship, that author is probably talented enough to write a decent sex scene (so the sex scene isn't the cause of the attention, just an effect of having a good writer and the general perception by authors that the payoff of all shippy fics is the sex). That's my theory anyway.
A good sex scene should: sell me on the ship, sell me on the mood of the story, and sell me on the characters involved.
Purpose of sex in fanfic, well, that depends on the story, doesn't it? If it's a short, first time shippy fic, it's almost expected the payoff will be sex. I don't agree that it HAS to be, but it's the easiest/most used shorthand for intimacy and cementing a shift in relationship to coupledom (that is so a word).
What I would almost never like to see again: someone saying "come for me". It very very rarely works for me and I wager I see it in about 20% of sex scenes I read. Half the time I'm like, no, that person definitely would have started laughing or something if you had done that. And, seriously, if you're going to go there, could you switch up the wording or something? Work a little harder to make it fit that couple(threesome...).
What I would like to see more of...frontage! I love frontage because it has the "actively working to orgasm together" thing that penetrative sex often has (that blow jobs and hand jobs don't always do as well) without the prep or supplies. I'd like to see less of a reliance on penetrative sex as the ultimate intimacy symbolically without actually selling me on that couple having that intimacy. I'd actually really love to see more discussion of limits and preferences before-hand and exploration during. I mean, sometimes "fuck me right now" works for a character/pairing, but sometimes it doesn't.