the goal was wide open. all i had to do was put it inside
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
u will have busted a nult
― Fairly peng (wins), Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
now there's some slash fiction that really shouldn't happen
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Curious to know if the people who select these are fans of sex scenes or erotica writing at all, or they just stick to mainstream novels.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Wonder what their favourite scenes would read like
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Not all of these are flat out terrible, some are just sort of average. I can't help but think people just find something so inherently embarrassing about vivid descriptions of sex that there's a very high bar to not be "bad." That said, I think the most bathetic one is actually #7, due to the extreme proximity of the pseudo-profound "And when it hits her, it slams her hard and fast, as life once had" to the phrase "cups his balls."
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, #7, that's my pick. The whole thing has an awful creative writing workshop stench to it.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
#6 is hilarious
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
It's hard for me to believe that Haruki Murakami didn't mean for that to be funny/ridiculous
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
By all means, if ppl wanna start throwing in what they think is some good sex scene writing, have at it
― Simon H., Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Some of #2 might be forgiven since it's written from the perspective of someone in the 16th century BCE. But then there's "The sweet dew of feminine arousal glistened upon them."
― abanana, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
WS Burroughs was great at this imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:02 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:04 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm not sure, how about you? *rests chin on hands*
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
we shd have a sex scene competition tbh, like the poetry one but more arousing
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
oh yes, nothing i love more than a bottle of rose, a hot bath, and naked lunch as a guide to my evening's adventures.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah I didn't say I found them arousing
is that the goal of sex scenes in modern novels, to arouse the reader?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
i'm permalinking that post imago
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
not necessarily. when i write sex scenes it's either to advance the narrative or segue between tones
oh good matt, you're in favour
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
I just think he was good at writing them and integrating them into his work, they were part and parcel with his overall themes/ideas, they didn't stand out as some stupid, separate detour intended to titillate the reader
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
― imago, Thursday, November 13, 2014 9:07 PM (8 minutes ago)
This would be hilarious and embarrassing and awesome.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
*shudders*
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
oh come now, you'd write a darling shag
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
i love stupid, separate detours intended to titillate the reader, the weirder and more awkward the better.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
basically i would support a prose version of RIP nsfws
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
before i do anything, do u have iltmi on sna matt. i wish to avoid the no way
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
"imma let you finish but imago had the greatest sex scene of iltmi! ILTMI!"
― Fairly peng (wins), Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
check out the sex face on this tolstoy
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014
Most erotica I've read is terrible, but works on certain levels, so I kept reading it. Can't think of anything I'd wholly recommend and even if I did find something I thought was amazing, I doubt most of you would want to read it.
Apart from the hair whip and vagina vacuum I thought the Murakami one was pretty good. That's one of the ones I supposed might be fantasy or science fiction.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
lusty-lusty rims had
― Fairly peng (wins), Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
xp I guess
― imago, Thursday, November 13, 2014 2:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i haven't no-wayd iltmi since sick mouthy updated the masturbation thread and would feel cheap and low-down if i went back to that well.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
lol ok. also lol
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Most erotica I've read is terrible, but works on certain levels
http://de-smitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/lower-level-blick.jpg
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
It's the same with visual art, some people can't draw very well and have really bad style but nonetheless are good at imagining and conveying certain situations. Real guilty pleasure stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
ILX 2014 Sex Writing Awards
― imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 24 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
pudenda ftw
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link