How to write sex scenes without making your book an erotica novel?

>"international food festival" that highlights ur cities "diversity"

Wait, is this a BBC metaphor

that would be funny tho if u like went to different booths and go in the center of the tables in their little tent thing and all the dudes turn around and lift up their aprons and bukake u

Read Murakami sex scenes. You have them appear randomly and make the prose awkward as fuck

'They made love.' The act itself really doesn't need to be described unless the book is erotica. The reader knows what sex is and sex scenes almost always detract from the prose and make for really fucking cringey moments.

Check out Dan Simmons' Rise of Endymion for the worst sex scenes I've ever fucking read.

Also make them incestual

Personally, I love erotica and wish more novels broke their ideas with grounded sex. More true to life.

Here's how to not, I guess.
theguardian.com/books/badsexaward

Imho if I had to describe a blowjob, in an almost asexual manner, you could describe how unsure the character is or how they're enveloped in a calm tide of sensation. The more spiritual you make the latter, the less porno it is imo.

>2017
>Still thinking that there's a distinction between high art and low art
What's wrong with porno?

The best way to describe a blowjob is like this

>“Wow,” she said.
>“What?”
>She looked up at me, but didn’t move, her face nanometers away from my penis. “It’s weird.”
>“What do you mean weird?”
>“Just beeg, I guess.”
>I could live with that kind of weird. And then she wrapped her hand around it and put it into her mouth.
>And waited.
>We were both very still. She did not move a muscle in her body, and I did not move a muscle in mine. I knew that at this point something else was supposed to happen, but I wasn’t quite sure what.
>She stayed still. I could feel her nervous breath. For minutes, for as long as it took the Bradys to steal the key and unlock themselves from the ghost-town jail, she lay there, stock-still with my penis in her mouth, and I sat there, waiting.
>And then she took it out of her mouth and looked up at me quizzically.
>“Should I do sometheeng?”
>“Um. I don’t know,” I said. Everything I’d learned from watching porn with Alaska suddenly exited my brain. I thought maybe she should move her head up and down, but wouldn’t that choke her? So I just stayed quiet.
>“Should I, like, bite?”
>“Don’t bite! I mean, I don’t think. I think—I mean, that felt good. That was nice. I don’t know if there’s something else.”
>“I mean, you deedn’t—”
>“Um. Maybe we should ask Alaska.”
>So we went to her room and asked Alaska. She laughed and laughed. Sitting on her bed, she laughed until she cried. She walked into the bathroom, returned with a tube of toothpaste, and showed us. In detail. Never have I so wanted to be Crest Complete.
>Lara and I went back to her room, where she did exactly what Alaska told her to do, and I did exactly what Alaska said I would do, which was die a hundred little ecstatic deaths, my fists clenched, my body shaking. It was my first orgasm with a girl, and afterward, I was embarrassed and nervous, and so, clearly, was Lara, who finally broke the silence by asking, “So, want to do some homework?”

It's easy.

You don't describe the act whatsoever, instead you describe the things around the act which suggest the act itself is going on.

Much like what Joyce did.

This is shit and far too long.

>Like how do you describe a blowjob or penetration

Simply don't mention these things. Say they are holding hands instead.

Read Lolita

Go home John, you're drunk.

This is the best erotic poem that you won't even think is erotic until you've deeply studied Serbian Modernist Poetry of the unrepeatable Milan Rakic, desu

An Honest Poem

Oh, keep silent, speak not, hush,
Let thoughts swarm in my head,
May not your voice away brush
These powerful feelings unsaid.

Oh, hush, for my veins may be
Throbbing with a new life grand,
As I forget it is just you and me
That 'fore the glory of nature stand.

Once it's all over and my body tired
Relapses into a common dullness
And the new life and feeling inspired
Softly and quietly sink into darkness,

I shall anew, my darling, tell you so
Trite a poem of love and of how
I pine and suffer and love you, though
I feel and mean not what I then avow.

And as oft, miserable woman, you
Will enjoy listening to these lies,
Thanking God for creating you, too
And tears will again fill your eyes.

As you behold the dreamy fields
Veiled by the silent dark above,
You'll know not what's concealed-
That by loving you I myself love,

And my love for you when it
In all its might seizes all of me,
And makes quiver my every bit,
And feelings too rush upon me!

For the moment of life and glee,
When my entire power soars too,
By my heart may you blessed be,
But, my darling, I don't love you!

That's why I'll always say: hush,
Let your soul peacefully sleep,
As the leaves turn yellow and blush
And fields sink into darkness deep.

You don't, or you just do it as objectively as possible

As a placeholder, write "they made love/fucked/screwed". That's usually good bc it's not leery nor dumb.

Alternatively, talk about what's happening besides the movement of cock. For instance, what's going on in the guy's head during fellatio? Or what are the girl's hands doing while she's penetrated? Little descriptions like these add heat and meaning while not being exceedingly raunchy. Examples of good sex writing include The Lover by Duras and Bad Behavior by Gaitskill.

>throbbing

dead giveaway

dropped

Tha don't, tha fucking degenerate.

READ IN THE ORIGINAL THEN REEEEEEEEEE
PSEUDS GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

How to write sex scenes without making your book an erotica novel?

Here is scene from London for Immigrant suckers; So long Yugoslavia

He was only touching her not-so-special-but-ok tits for about a half a minute when she stood up, unzipped him, lifted her skirt up and moved aside her knickers. She had taken the right thing and put it into the right place, and started jumping up and down on him like a yoyo.

Yep bad behavior by gaitskill is my go to for sex writing. Sometimes a girl has a hole besides her vagina and sometimes your penis isn't the only thing filling her up.

Center the scene on the characters, not on their actions