Sex means different things to different people (and different characters react in different ways to sex.) I don't think there is necessarily anything wrong with PWP smut!fic, but I find them boring in the main, and there are so few I find genuinely hot/touching/funny that I prefer to read and write fic where the sex scenes are a necessary part of the story.
A character's one-night-stand-what-the-heck-I-might-as-well encounter in the alleyway behind a club doesn't have to be pointless...but so many fic writers approach it in this pointless way, that I think sex scenes in fic have become pointless through replication of this kind of situation.
And there are some stories where the sex is so gratuitous that it makes the whole fic sound silly, even if the main body of the text makes a good point. It reads as if the writer has seen that "sexay stories" get more reviews, so here goes I with the sex0rs...*write, write*
I wrote a character for a British CSI-type story collection and she was a highly sexual being. She responded to the horror and death she saw every day by sleeping with a close male friend to make herself feel alive and clean again. I was careful not to overplay the sexual aspect of her character, but at the same time it was an important part of who she was and to leave it out would have left her two-dimensional.
There is definitely a place for sex in fiction and it shouldn't automatically be seen as bad, but I think too many people use it as a turning point in the character's life when sex doesn't necessarily have to be that way.
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Date: 2008-09-14 09:29 am (UTC)A character's one-night-stand-what-the-heck-I-might-as-well encounter in the alleyway behind a club doesn't have to be pointless...but so many fic writers approach it in this pointless way, that I think sex scenes in fic have become pointless through replication of this kind of situation.
And there are some stories where the sex is so gratuitous that it makes the whole fic sound silly, even if the main body of the text makes a good point. It reads as if the writer has seen that "sexay stories" get more reviews, so here goes I with the sex0rs...*write, write*
I wrote a character for a British CSI-type story collection and she was a highly sexual being. She responded to the horror and death she saw every day by sleeping with a close male friend to make herself feel alive and clean again. I was careful not to overplay the sexual aspect of her character, but at the same time it was an important part of who she was and to leave it out would have left her two-dimensional.
There is definitely a place for sex in fiction and it shouldn't automatically be seen as bad, but I think too many people use it as a turning point in the character's life when sex doesn't necessarily have to be that way.