Readers like to read sex...

[James K]

According to a reader survey carried out by the Gay Authors site those readers who replied to the questions posed like to read stories with sex in them. Romance, drama, and adventure, with sex, not pornographic, but spice in the story. Readers want to get the sex lives of the characters. Interesting!

[R.J.]

Well, sex sells lol. Personally, as a reader, sex scenes in stories tend to be written more like fillers than anything. I've read a lot of stories over the years but I can only remember only one story with well written sex in it and was not written as a filler (I tend to skip the few I encounter because they really read like a filler) — Crosscrurrents by Adam Phillips. And as a writer, I find sex scenes extremely difficult, more difficult than writing the actual story. I think it is a gift to be able to write effective sex scenes lol

[Camy]

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Readers like to read sex...

Blimey... who'd have thought it. 

 

[Nigel Gordon]

Do they? Yes, I suppose there are some who do, I know I do if it is written well. However, even with my favourite authors I often find myself skipping the sexually explicit sections.

What I do know is that a lot of the emails I get about my writing is from readers who are thanking me for writing gay themed stories and avoiding descriptions of sex activities. 

It all comes down to ones individual taste. Some readers want sex in their reading, some don't. Hopefully there is sufficient variety in the wring available to support both.

[JamesSavik]

Cave paintings thousands of years old describe sex acts that would make a sailor blush.

A rookie sailor, but a sailor nonetheless. 😉

[Jason Rimbaud]

The older I get the less I want to read stories depicting graphic sex. Maybe its because I'm married now, so I get denied sex so often its been drilled out of me. 🙂

When I was younger, in all my slut glory, I didn't have that much sex as some writers depict. I know you want to have sex in every chapter but if it has only been two hours in story, just because its a new chapter, the characters aren't going to be ready again, or find the time. I've had a few...orgies in my youth, and after four or five guys, I wasn't looking for sex for a while. It takes time for the soreness to go away. 

Plus, when I was in school, I was busy, I had things to do, I didn't have the time to be banging away. 

I wrote a story once upon a time, that depicted two characters trying to find a time and place to have sex. They never managed to. That was my experience in my teenage years.

For Camy's sake, I won't mention my twenties, its not good to make an Emu blush.

 

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[Cole Parker]

I don't mind sex in a story, but it should be endemic, should fit in very naturally, not be foreced, and not be the point of the story.  You can always tell when sex was added because the author felt this was the place he needed to add some.  If the point of the story is sex, then I don't generally find it all that interesting and gets more and more boring as the story continues.  a story should be about something else that captures the imagination.

[Camy]

18 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

For Camy's sake, I won't mention my twenties, its not good to make an Emu blush.

Oh please, Jason, do!  We, and by 'we' I mean Emus' generally, need to know. Immediately--if not sooner--before Reg starts to pluck at his feathers again.

[Jason Rimbaud]

Ha, maybe I'll start writing my memoirs that has all the juicy details.   

[Nigel Gordon]

On 5/12/2022 at 5:36 PM, Jason Rimbaud said:

Ha, maybe I'll start writing my memoirs that has all the juicy details.   

Well, I'm writing mine, the only problem is I don't think there is a site that dare host them. It's not the sex that is the problem but the probably libel actions from people who want to deny they were ever there.

[Cole Parker]

I think it was Dragnet that always proclaimed: The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

[Camy]

Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

 

[Nigel Gordon]

5 hours ago, Camy said:

Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

[Jason Rimbaud]

Hahaha, I've run into that problem once. A person found some of my writings and was really upset that I described our time together. He brought it up to our mutual friends and was complaining about it. The problem was, none of my friends had read what I wrote about us, nor would they have known it was about him because I changed the name and the description. Boy was he embarrassed. If he had only kept his mouth shut no one would have known. 

[Rutabaga]

On 5/14/2022 at 2:22 PM, Cole Parker said:

I think it was Dragnet that always proclaimed: The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Or as Stan Freberg said in his Dragnet parody, "The story you are about to hear is true.  Only the needle should be changed to protect the record."

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