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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[linaerys]

I only have a problem with the description of people's physical sensations, not with their mental reactions.

Interesting. I've noticed in the sex I've had personally that the mental component is at least half of how good it is, so I'm willing to believe that if someone finds the grape-eating an incredible-turn on, that she's going to have the physical reactions that match.

But I'm totally talking out of my ass here, because I haven't read a het scene that really worked for me in ages. Partially it's because I don't find myself reading them very often and partially--I think I like less detailed descriptions in het scenes. If she's getting finger fucked and loving it, then I don't want the detail that will convince me that her partner is doing it badly, by my standards. I'd rather assume that it's being done in a way I would enjoy. And I get you on the "ow" thing if the scene is all "his cock banged against her cervix" because some women like that, I've been told, but I have to cross my legs and back-button hurriedly. So detail matters on this question as well.

[neery]

so I'm willing to believe that if someone finds the grape-eating an incredible-turn on, that she's going to have the physical reactions that match.

Maybe "reactions" was the wrong word to use here; I can totally believe that it gets her wet, I just can't believe that she feels anything but, um... *imagines having grapes eaten out of belly button*... the slight tickling of lips and teeth on a sensitive part of the body. No actual physical jolt of pleasure, at least not directly from her belly, you know?

Things banging against cervix, OW - never happened to me during actual sex, but the sort of painful in OB/GYN situations where I can't believe that even a much more sexy situation would make the sensation bearable.

I really dislike some other things that are common in het scenes, but I'm sort of trying not to scare people off with too much TMI. *g*

So, yes, less detail is definitely better, in this case.