meuIin
I need advice on how to write sex scenes. Any advice or tips you can recommend? Hopefully this is okay to post.
sweatdrop redface
It depends on what the rest of the story is about.
If the scene is necessary (like in the case of romantic novels) then the reader is reading it for the express purpose of enguaging in the scene for the passion.
If your book is just about a romance that occurs but the plot surrounding it is the focus rather than the romance, then you need not even describe the sex scene so much as describe the process leading up to, and the feelings after, the sex.
And if there isn't romance, and the characters are just knockin' boots as a plot tool, you need only describe it loosely and in a quick and dirty fashion, since that's essentially what the sex is....
Anyway, i think most sex scenes in books are mostly unnecessary, and could be done by simply following the second piece of advice about the build up and feelings after. It's been done really well in a lot of books, take "14" for example. Or the Monster Hunter International series. Mostly just skips over the sex and discusses the character's feelings.