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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 3, 2018 19:26:32 GMT
I'm going to steal a topic from my facebook group that I've also seen on reddit. When you're writing sex scenes do your characters use condoms or other types of protection? Are your uterus owners on birth control? Do your anus lovers use lots of lube? How much real life setup/safe practices do you include in your smexy fun time scenes? To me, if you're writing a pure spank bank fantasy then stuff like that just intrudes on the fantasy and spoils the mood. But if you're trying to write a more realistic romance and sex is just a part of that important relationship, then including a scene where he shows what a responsible, conscientious guy he is by stopping to put on a condom only enhances the scene.
What say you all?
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EllieL
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Post by EllieL on Aug 3, 2018 19:55:29 GMT
I write historicals mostly, so no.
My opinion on the yay or nay for condoms is this: a novel is for escapism. Reality is all about protection from STI's and oral contraceptives and so on. I don't think it's necessary to write them into a story that I'm reading to forget the real world for a while. But that's me. I wouldn't be turned off either way if I was enjoying the read.
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Post by corabuhlert on Aug 4, 2018 1:20:04 GMT
I was a teenager during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic (12 when Rock Hudson died and 18 when Freddy Mercury died) and so I expect a sex scene in a book set after approx. 1985 to involve condoms or have a very good reason why not. Historicals and period works set before approx. 1985 don't necessarily require condoms. For example, I have a story set in the counter-cultural milieu of the laet 1970s, which includes a sex scene without condoms, because a heterosexual couple in the late 1970s wouldn't have used them. AIDS was not yet a concern, other STDs were treatable and birth control was achieed via the pill.
For sex scenes in stories set in the far future, I don't include condoms either, though I usually add some context about how this society deals with STD prevention and birth control.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 4, 2018 2:29:50 GMT
In the future everyone will have tiny microbots living inside of them that will fix and heal any problems, so if you pick up any kind of STD you'll never know it thanks to your gutbots. Plus, you'll get to be immortal, if you want, which is neat. I can't wait for the future!
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rhubarbhead
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Post by rhubarbhead on Aug 4, 2018 3:16:50 GMT
(Puts hand up) No condoms here because set in an alternative Victorian era. As a lot of the characters are healers, presumably they can heal any STDs. But there are one or two unplanned pregnancies, because the characters involved are careless - or reckless.
That is quite an important part of the narrative.
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Post by corabuhlert on Aug 5, 2018 0:19:01 GMT
In the future everyone will have tiny microbots living inside of them that will fix and heal any problems, so if you pick up any kind of STD you'll never know it thanks to your gutbots. Plus, you'll get to be immortal, if you want, which is neat. I can't wait for the future! In one of my SF series, the protagonists (both soldiers and a couple) both have nanobots, which can repair injuries and also deal with illnesses, including STDs. This is a pretty important plot point, because the characters tend to get hurt a lot. However, these nanobots are explicitly not used for birth control, because people have those nanobots all their lives and may eventually want to have children. Instead, birth control is handled via hormone releasing implants. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 5, 2018 0:46:18 GMT
In the future everyone will have tiny microbots living inside of them that will fix and heal any problems, so if you pick up any kind of STD you'll never know it thanks to your gutbots. Plus, you'll get to be immortal, if you want, which is neat. I can't wait for the future! In one of my SF series, the protagonists (both soldiers and a couple) both have nanobots, which can repair injuries and also deal with illnesses, including STDs. This is a pretty important plot point, because the characters tend to get hurt a lot. However, these nanobots are explicitly not used for birth control, because people have those nanobots all their lives and may eventually want to have children. Instead, birth control is handled via hormone releasing implants. That's so cool! Your story sound really interesting and fun.  I learned about the min-nano-doctors from "Through the Wormhole."  That show is really great for sci-fi inspiration. |
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Post by DD on Aug 5, 2018 15:18:24 GMT
In the future everyone will have tiny microbots living inside of them that will fix and heal any problems, so if you pick up any kind of STD you'll never know it thanks to your gutbots. Plus, you'll get to be immortal, if you want, which is neat. I can't wait for the future! In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. But not because they have an STD. |
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Post by gaylordfancypants on Aug 5, 2018 17:28:50 GMT
I don't see that as any more necessary than wearing seatbelts. It can just be assumed that people use condoms IMHO, no need to mention it if their use/nonuse isn't relevant to the plot.
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Post by marissascott on Aug 28, 2018 21:36:39 GMT
I never mention any of it in mine. Never had anyone complain about it either. I never really considered it since I write for people to get off. I don;t imagine they really care if they are buying erotic shorts to be honest.
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That show is really great for sci-fi inspiration. 
