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[ladyjanelly]

Sigh. I want to write this sweet hooker-fic but it just—to end up where I want it to, it needs to start with a long-ish scene that’s both both sexy and pretty vanilla? And from the client’s POV, and I just—have forgotten how to do sexy vanilla (looking back at my AO3 history, it’s possible I never knew how to sexy vanilla).

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[realpestilence]

We're so used to kinky gymnastics and multiple partners that it's easy to forget that just actual sex and the enjoyment thereof has its own pleasures. I've gotten to the point where I skip most sex scenes and go to the action scenes, or to the emotional discussions.

But I like fics that concentrate on the sensory details. Touch, how skin feels under the fingertips and how lips feel on it; scent (not smell!) and sound are probably the easiest, lavender or sandalwood, husky voice, kind of thing; and then with sight, there's what the character is seeing, or not seeing.

Added to that is what I call the "psychology of why". WHY do all these things move the person? Are they touch-deprived? Whose scent or voice are they missing? Do they like what they see, or are they missing what they don't see? etc

I think the more emotional and sensual the prose is, the sexier vanilla sex is. I think it's a more straightforward need (and/or love) than kink is.

[ladyjanelly]

I think the only non-kinky thing I've ever written was the scenes in "In from the cold." Well, the ones in "What Livin' is for" were pretty vanilla except for having 3 people involved. And most of "Walk a While" is too wrapped up in the recovery/internal conflicts to have time to be kinky?

So I think I need to figure out what's going on in the client's head, and that'll give me his angle, and then the hooker is pretty playful/happy/professional for that to play off of.

But I think you're right. getting into the "why" is going to be more important than the 'what".