On Twitter the other day a conversation arose about joining the Mile High Club. One person remarked "the airplane bathrooms are too gross to pee in, much less have sex in." Several others said, "................." (I would assume since they'd had sex in airport bathrooms.)
Anyhoo, that conversation got me to thinking: how far is too far? How much is too much? As an erotic romance author, I try to push the envelope in my sex scenes. After all, who wants to read about yet another missionary-style coupling? BORING. No, you greedy things want to read about sex in the workplace, in the water, in an elevator, upside-down, twisted-like-a-pretzel, etc.
When does it go too far for me? With positions I know damn well are back-breaking, or guys who can get it up and come seven or eight times a night no matter how old they are (where IS that guy, and why isn't he tied to my bed?), or people jumping into bed w/o establishing any sexual tension or chemistry.
So when does it go too far for you? Tell me in the comments below!
-- Cassandra Carr
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5 comments:
I love to have my limits pushed in erotic romance. But the limits have to be natural. If it can't happen in the natural world it shouldn't be happening in erom - unless it's fantasy or sci-fi. The perma hard-on is tough to swallow (for more reasons than one!), sex in disgusting places (dirty bathroom, murder scene - the kind of places that might make most people gag) is just disgusting. Hell if I'm going to get aroused by reading about sex in a location like that.
Too far for me would also be something that pushes too much outside of my already defined notion of right and wrong. But this is not something an author has control over and it's not something I would EVER review because I would be way to prejudiced about it.
When it comes to erotic romance I'm down for just about anything. The more I can imagine myself and hubby there the better!
I actually like missionary/vanilla sex scenes if they're written well.
And that's the key - written well.
We all know the mechanics, but what makes a good sex scene stand out (snerk...stand out...) is the emotion (or emotions, plural) involved.
A penis goes into a vagina (or mouth or anus) in all of our books. So what? Well, what's the reason for this sex happening? Love, hate, anger, revenge, boredom, financial gain?
The biggest sexual organ in the human body is the brain after all.
If the author is outrageous and outlandish just for the sake of it, I actually get bored. I love to read books where I really feel what's in the characters' hearts and minds, than what's in their pants. We all know that anyway.
The real life airplane loos aren't a bit sexy to me. But I've read scenes where the author made me believe that location was scorching. :)
For me, it's all about the connection to the characters and the story and that comes from great writing.
Good post Cassandra!
Scraps, Scarlett, and Evanne,
You all make great points! Sex at a murder scene? I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. That's just wrong. But yeah, being able to picture yourself in these scenarios is definitely sexy!
So Scarlett - when I wanna pick up a guy I should tell him I have a huge...brain? Awesome! I'm going to be very popular at the bars now (hope my hubby doesn't mind).
The connection of the characters is so important and can't be faked! The scenes just fall flat if there's no connection.
There's no room to move in airplane toilets. I just can't see how it's possible if you're tall like me! Apart from the yuck part of it. But puts me in mind of an incident that actually happened next to a neighbour of mine. She was on a transatlantic flight in business class and the couple opposite - who turned out never to have met before - got up to all sorts of hanky panky under the blankets and -cough- some of it not under the blanket. Cabin crew asked them to stop but they didn't. They had to go to court in the UK and were fined!
Back on topic - I don't mind where the characters get down and dirty - er - so long as its not somewhere really dirty. So long as the action is physically possible, I'll roll with it. Though the -in the water thing - umm not as easy as it sounds and I'll say no more. Unless I'm tortured. Maybe not even then.
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