Sex scenes with female characters.

[neery]

I just finished reading thingswithwings' very nice John/Rodney genderswap fic, always should be someone you really love. Gendersfuck is pretty much the only way I ever read het or lesbian sex scenes anymore, mostly because I'm not currently in any fandom where there's more than one female character I want to read fiction about

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[20thcenturyvole]

"I'm seriously the only woman on the planet who doesn't like that, huh?

Oh, man, I always have that damn problem. I could have an entire, slightly TMI monologue re: boobies and all their apparent pleasures that I just don't get (y'know, beyond aesthetics). However, I did really like that story, and for the first time in a long while, I didn't rapidly scroll past the lesbian sex scenes, because they made a great deal of sense to me and were very well-characterised. As opposed to, you know, "Ooh, I have girl bits now. I must investigate makeup and penetration immediately!"

[linaerys]

I could join you on that TMI monologue. My boobs fill out my shirts nicely, but other than that, they might as well be my elbow for all the enjoyment they give me. Now, my neck on the other hand.

So. Yeah.

And now I want to read that story.

[neery]

Go read that story, it's really good! Very nice treatment of gender identities, and generally just great writing and a nice John/Rodney characterization. You can always just scroll by the sex scenes if you want, but even those are good, as far as sex scenes that hit too close to home go.

[neery]

The TMI is all over this post already, feel free to join in. *g* Seriously, I'm sort of stumbling all over the fine line between trying to make my point with some sort of demonstrative example, and not telling people things about my sex life they might not want to know. I do have somewhat sensitive boobies, although they don't provide me with the amazing, orgasmic experience often seen in fic; I can more or less suspend disbelief for that, though, because even my own level of enjoyment fluctuates when it comes to boobies.

Now cunnilingus, on the other hand, I dislike intensely, and it baffles me that everyone seems to consider it the height of female pleasure.

[20thcenturyvole]

Ahhh. Okay, if we're doing the TMI thing: I'm going to point towards what linaerys said re: boobs and elbows, because I see so much femmeslash where nipples are treated like little clitorises, and I always go, "What? What? Is there something wrong with me?" Because my boobs have not ever turned me on. They are not sexually sensitive. Mostly, they itch.

Cunnilingus, on the other hand, I can imagine would be kind of awesome. I am a very clit-oriented person, to the point of letting all other bits go hang. Er. Metaphorically.

*flees*

[emrinalexander]

Same boat here. Either the sex is boring (and I find this most often when reading lesbian scenes. For the most part, most femme slash doesn't ring true at all for me).

AND YES! Now cunnilingus, on the other hand, I dislike intensely, and it baffles me that everyone seems to consider it the height of female pleasure.

I don't dislike it intensely, but it's kind of like "Uh, yeh, Ok, um...can you move on now?" for me because there are just other things I like much better. And yet nearly ever het and lesbian sex scene I've ever read it's like "kiss, kiss, stroke nipples, BANG - go down on one partner..." and I'm left going "Buh...what?"