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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[tinnny]

Oi, you got *comments* on this baby already... :D. Figures, it's about sex

[neery]

It reminds me of the "what does sperm taste like" discussion, not so long ago.

Oh god, it's just all TMI, all the time over here recently, isn't it? Maybe I should choose my topics a little more wisely, now that there are people on the flist who I actually have to be able to look in the eye afterwards. *g*
(Or maybe not. t_eyla was actually sitting next to me and snickering a lot while I answered comments on the sperm post (and blushing a really interesting shade of red, I'm sure - me, that is, not her), and it's not like the fact that I talk about sex on the internet a lot comes as a surprise to anyone at this point. I already care far too much what people think about my weird hobbies, I shouldn's start that on my own LJ, too.)

Sex scenes are always over the top, and even in M/M sex, I often can't suspend disbelief at how overwhelmingly perfect they are describedStrangely enough, with M/M scenes, I usually have no problem suspending disbelief even if I do know better. It's just not as closely related to my own experience, I guess, so

[t_eyla]

*scratches head and tries to remember the last time she read explicit het*

Um... I think I went directly from reading no-sex gen to reading all-sex slash. I can't really imagine I'd enjoy reading about het sex. What's hot about that? It's too close to home, I absolutely agree.

*nods*

Only gay porn for me. ;)

[stop]

Oh, come on Neery, you know me, I want all explicit all the time. What don't you like in het sex?!

[neery]

I'm not against explicit in general, you know that! It's just, with het sex, apparently there is such a thing as too much detail for me. For example, if I'm reading about her getting fingered, I just don't want the level of detail that would convince me that he'd doing it incompetently or even painfully, by my standards. I'm not at all saying people shouldn't write explicit het sex, but apparently when it comes to women's bodies, I can't remove myself and my own experiences from the scene enough to enjoy it uncritically, the way I can do with slash.

[stop]

Happy birthday!

[neery]

Thank you!