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)

[xochiquetzl]

It just is.

No, really. It just is. It's the least objective thing you can write about, IMHO. And most of the things people do when writing hard stuff--distancing themselves--just make things worse.

Detachable penis? *hums the King Missle song*

[blktauna.livejournal.com]

dangly bits are just inherently funny... not much more to say...