bagheera_san: (united in porn)
bagheera_san ([personal profile] bagheera_san) wrote2007-08-20 10:11 pm
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[Poll #1042372]

This poll is brought to you by the realization that four out of five of my stories could probably end with "and then they had sex." I'm not just lazy - quite often writing porn is simply dead boring, at least when it's "and then they had sex" porn: sex scenes that have no particular tension between the characters or anything. Most often these occur at the end of a story, after all the issues of a romantic plot are resolved. It's either riding off into the sunset or porn.

[identity profile] bagheera-san.livejournal.com 2007-08-21 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
However, if I have a fairly substantial storyline that's not the romance, and the romance is secondary or a subplot, then I'm often inclined to leave the sex out as unnecessary.

Sex scenes are usually pretty long compared to other interaction, so they often shift the weight of scenes quite a bit - that can be jarring if the actual point of the story was the plot and not the sex. But romance should have some form of resolution, you're right - even if it's just a kiss or a marriage proposal or a break-up.