Why, oh why, oh why...

[graculus]

Is it so hard to write a good sex scene? (I'm assuming for politeness sake that nobody is going to be posting 'but your sex scenes are crapola!' in response to this).

Have I been scarred for life by the connotations panel with the scary detachable penis, adding to my pre-existing trauma about the evils of purple prose on the one hand (organic firehose, anyone?) and clinical sex manual description on the other? Why is male genitalia so much more inherently amusing than female genitalia (thus rendering slash sex scenes twice as amusing already?)?

Perhaps I need to go back to writing gen... ;)

Comments

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

It's best to write about the emotions involved, from what I hear.

(checks book on The Joy of Writing Sex)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I'm not normally one for graphic sex scenes anyway, but I have a purpose for this one so graphic(ish) it is... well, graphic for me, that is. Which is probably not very. ;)