[ SECRET POST #3129 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3129 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are definitely writers who seem to slide into purple prose as soon as they get to the sex scenes, and only then.

The one I'm thinking of who does this more than anyone I've come across is actually married, so I assume virginity has nothing to do with it.

I don't know why some writers do this. Is it because they feel it's expected to slide into laughable cliché for the steamy stuff? Was their first exposure to sex scenes from terrible romance pulp trash and so now they think it all has to be written like that... and not using normal language, I dunno, like the entire rest of their fic?

The writer who does this the most in my fandom gets huge praise for her sex scenes, so it's unlikely she'll ever change. I just skip all her fics entirely because of it.

Pity, because she's a good writer otherwise. I just can't get over all that weeping cock-style ridiculous terminology, the devouring of mouths, and the dusky nubs, and the scarlet throbbing shafts which start suddenly kicking in as soon as the characters even kiss. It would be okay if the characters were the sort to talk like that. But that purple prose is so unsuitable for those particular characters, which makes it so much worse. It just reads like the writer suddenly dropped fifty IQ points.

[a_potato]

It's really frustrating and baffling when that happens! It's like, c'mon, you obviously know how to write well; what happened?

Maybe it's the assumption that there's a hard divide between porn and romance? I wonder if people think that, in order for a sex scene to not be "mere sex," it has to be surrounded in sweet, florid language.