How To Write Porn – Creating the Cum-ulation

Posted on Oct 26, 2012 in How To Write Porn | 1 comment

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Why do animals have sex?  On a base level, there is a drive to copulate that has nothing to do with love or propogating the species or anything else.  We do it because it feels good.  That’s why turtles and hummingbirds and panthers all do it.  We’re no different.  And the part that feels the best?  As much as we enjoy the build up and want to extend the process so we can savor it, the whole reason for all the hoops we jump through in order to have sex is for that one singular event.  The fun is the fireworks at the end.

Why then, do authors seem incapable of letting us know when that final glorious moment comes (no pun intended)?  I can’t tell you how many stories I’ve read with beautiful build-up of foreplay and rising action, only to forget to mention the climax.  They move on to afterglow chat and I’m left to ask, wait, did she even finish?  Are authors really afraid to write out that eyes roll back in your head, toe curling scream?

This happens more than I’d like, but usually erotica is written from the POV of the female character, so their moment is documented.  Whether it me in 1st or 3rd person, because women write and read erotica, their organisms are usually remembered.  But what about the men? I can’t tell you how many times she comes like a lion and he whimpers like a lamb.  Personally, a man losing some of his control during sex is hot hot hot.  I want him to let go, I want to overwhelm until he is overcome.

Right now I’m talking strictly about M/F stories.  M/M stories have their own set of issues, as do F/F and one of these days I’ll do a post about Slash-Erotica.  But right now, let’s talk about the M/F coupling.  What you should be picking up on here, is that I just read a M/F coupling that pissed me off.  All of these posts are usually because I’ve read something by someone that made me role my eyes and go “really?” and so I had to rant.  And you dear readers are the lucky beneficiaries!

So, back to the topic at hand.  Everyone likes sex.  Everyone likes to cum.  If you don’t, I suggest you seek therapy.  Again, turtles and hummingbirds and panthers all like it, we’re no better than them in this regard.

So, when reading erotica, I WANT the characters to have the most mind blowing orgasms imaginable.  Yes, I want them to be realistic, but I want her back to arch, I want his brow to break out in a sheen of sweat, I want her to claw at his shoulders and I want him to punch the wall with a roar as he slams into her one. More. TIME.

If the characters don’t get off, how will the reader?  So this is my not so gentle reminder, that while the build-up is where most writers focus, please don’t forget the culmination of all that effort!  Give your characters the happily ever after your readers are searching for.