I don't agree that having a pair of characters engage in sexual intercourse (or pursue a romance) doesn't require convincing build-up, justification, and support.
I totally get that there are people who want the romance itself bad enough to skip over the heavy lifting, and if that's what you like, you'll like those kinds of stories. But I don't agree that putting sex into a story should be any easier than putting in ghosts or mysteries or space ships.
I sort of agree with you and sort of think ... no, not the same. I agree that I want to see the same amount of thought and effort go into a story about love and sex or one or the other, I want the justification and the story. I like a build up even if the point is the sex, like to see the tension and the foreplay. But I also think that sex, and the sexual pull, and sexual tension is something fundamental and biological and inherently different than other story elements. Not that it shouldn't be just as well done, but that it really is not the same. (I also need to clarify that I am NOT necessary equating sex and Romance. I'm much more interested in the sex than the romance for the most part, in fic at least. I like it when there's tension in both.)
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Date: 2008-02-22 05:24 am (UTC)I totally get that there are people who want the romance itself bad enough to skip over the heavy lifting, and if that's what you like, you'll like those kinds of stories. But I don't agree that putting sex into a story should be any easier than putting in ghosts or mysteries or space ships.
I sort of agree with you and sort of think ... no, not the same. I agree that I want to see the same amount of thought and effort go into a story about love and sex or one or the other, I want the justification and the story. I like a build up even if the point is the sex, like to see the tension and the foreplay. But I also think that sex, and the sexual pull, and sexual tension is something fundamental and biological and inherently different than other story elements. Not that it shouldn't be just as well done, but that it really is not the same. (I also need to clarify that I am NOT necessary equating sex and Romance. I'm much more interested in the sex than the romance for the most part, in fic at least. I like it when there's tension in both.)