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Monday is for shitpollsting about sex in fanfic
I was just commenting in ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
china_shop's journal that I don't write much explicit fanfic anymore and that I don't really read it much now either. When I first got into fanfic, the porn aspect was novel for me, and almost everything I read was explicit. Now if I do read explicit fanfic, I'm just as likely to skip all the sex scenes so I can get to the good parts: Draco crying in the bathroom because Harry hates him or Tony crying in the workshop because Steve hates him or, you know, some other people crying and misunderstanding each other egregiously (like in ways that stretch the limits of credulity).
And that got me to wondering about what the rest of you think about sex in fanfic. Please discuss any and all points in comments! Tangents welcome.
china_shop's journal that I don't write much explicit fanfic anymore and that I don't really read it much now either. When I first got into fanfic, the porn aspect was novel for me, and almost everything I read was explicit. Now if I do read explicit fanfic, I'm just as likely to skip all the sex scenes so I can get to the good parts: Draco crying in the bathroom because Harry hates him or Tony crying in the workshop because Steve hates him or, you know, some other people crying and misunderstanding each other egregiously (like in ways that stretch the limits of credulity).And that got me to wondering about what the rest of you think about sex in fanfic. Please discuss any and all points in comments! Tangents welcome.
Poll #22479 And then the taller man licked into the tallest man's mouth
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I often skip the sex scenes in explicit fanfic.
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yes, and I'm going to tell you why in comments
9 (25.7%)
no
12 (34.3%)
how much is often?
14 (40.0%)
Never thought I'd be reading fic that features __________, but here I am. Reading it.
OT3's
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do not solve love triangles, sheesh.
8 (25.0%)
are the best way to resolve love triangles, sheesh.
24 (75.0%)
Effective sex scenes are really hard to write.
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yes; I mean you can't just write, "she tasted like strawberries, and sugar, and something uniquely her," TWO times in a single fic
14 (42.4%)
no; you get the right combo of elements (say, spanking, some egg custard, and a little light bondage) and *somebody* out there's going to find it hot
5 (15.2%)
sometimes
14 (42.4%)
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Nowadays I sometimes skip sex scenes because over the years I have become more interested in plot and less interested in the sex. But it depends on my mood and the characters. There are now a bunch more fandom characters whose sex lives don't interest me at all. Their relationships interest me, but not the actual sex. Is this menopause talking? I am not sure. Maybe it's just that I spent over a decade readinga ll the porny slash I could find, and a bunch of other kinds of porn too. In fanfic, I mean. I read a bit of pro erotica but fan writing is really good.
You know, it never occurred to me to think about OT3 as a SOLUTION to a love triangle. Am I naive? Or just experiencing tunnel vision?
Effective sex scenes were no harder to write FOR ME than any other kind of scenes, but I have often read that other writers find them hard.
Boy, that got long.
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I was mostly joking about OT3s solving love triangles; that accusation seems to come up in every argument I see about them.
I definitely find them hard to write. In almost fifteen years of writing, I think I can count on one hand the few that I've written that I think are really effective.