Some people skip ‘em, some people relish them and like ‘em flavoured with all sorts of kinkiness. Some want sensuality that tears a sweet seam through the soul of your emotions.
I want the best sex you’ve read? I want to know what makes you skip the sex—excluding spooge, of course *g*
You all know how much I love to titillate the reader’s senses. And how much I like to spend on the building of sexual tension between my characters so that when they finally come together, I’ve got the reader tearin’ up with feeling and slidin’ off that chair.
But what makes it really work for you the reader? What scenes really stick out to you in books. Feel free to name your all time favourite sex scenes.
I want the best sex you’ve read? I want to know what makes you skip the sex—excluding spooge, of course *g*
You all know how much I love to titillate the reader’s senses. And how much I like to spend on the building of sexual tension between my characters so that when they finally come together, I’ve got the reader tearin’ up with feeling and slidin’ off that chair.
But what makes it really work for you the reader? What scenes really stick out to you in books. Feel free to name your all time favourite sex scenes.
26 comments:
I'll jump right in to say I never remember anything. Except there was a Stephanie Laurens scene in some book that stuck w/ me because the hero had a thing for the heroine's bottom. He wanted to take her from behind (unless I completely misread it, which I confess I did at first and thought it was a more, shall we say hardcore position), and she looks behind her. That's the extent of my memory, although lately people are up against doors and walls and all I can think of is the bruises.
I remember a Linda Lael Miller book once that was particularly...titillating. The heroine was sharing a shack with a guy in the army (who was trying his best to scare her back East where she belonged)--and he got the side of the shack with the bathtub or the clothes--I'm not sure--but she was on his SIDE and she was just about to make her getaway, climbing over a dresser and back into her side of the house--and he pins her up against the dresser and takes her from behind. Totally politically incorrect because she was saying "No" the whole time and he was like, "Too bad, I told you what would happen if you came back over here."
I also think Elizabeth Hoyt's scenes are hot.
And I love Eloisa's sex scenes because the first ones are almost always-always BAD. Rees & Helene come to mind in the It's so Bad I Can't Believe It Works Out category.
OH, and there are some of Jude Deveraux's (the older ones, I don't read the stuff she does now) that I really liked. There was a sex scene in the book The Invitation (which had three shorts in it so I don't know WHO'S sex scene it was...it was a pilot woman, though, I think, and a younger man)--and apparently she hadn't had sex that lasted over 3 minutes...and he lasts a LONG, LONG time...and the way JD described how it was for the heroine was just really cool.
I also loved: The Awakening, The Princess ("Breathe for Daddy Montgomery"), and The Raider...I don't know if the sex was particularly risque or memorable, but it was 'different'--it didn't feel mechanical or like I'd read that particular scene a dozen times before...
Nan Ryan is the one I think of for sex scenes that definitely woke me up. There was the one where the guy brought the woman a string of pearls. Lets just say, he didn't carry them in his hands. Talk about a present with a bonus. Then there was the one with a mahogany headboard. I think I was 17 and I remember calling my mother after reading it to let her know I'd just lost my virginity via the written word.
More recently I've had to actually walk out on my balcony at 1am to cool off after reading some Nora scenes. And after reading one of Tessa's I paced my apartment for several minutes, drinking very cold water.
Hellion, which LLM book was it? I totally love that kind of sex.
Ter, I have a ton of Nan Ryan books in my TBR! I need to get to them... Nicole Jordan uses a necklace in the most delicious way--I wish I could remember what book that was.
Maggie, Lauren's books are hot, but they are all the same for sex after a while. IMO, of course.
Tiff - see if you have Midnight Affair or Silken Bondage. If not, find them. LOL! They date back to the 80s so you might try Alibris.
I think in Hunter's The Protector, they do it doggy style. I remembering reading it and realizing what was going on about halfway through. Obviously she didn't refer to it as that. LOL! But that was one very hot scene. I think all the sex in that book was really good.
Like seriously, Ter... I think I have at least a dozen Nan books on my tbr... I'll have to see if I have those two tonight.
I love doggy... I use it often in my writing of historicals... :) Not much anal in my books though... maybe it's time I changed that ;)
Lisa Kleypas' Dreaming of You sex scenes stuck with me because when I thought he said "let me love you this way" ... I thought he meant anal. This, of course, when I revealed this thought caused much hilarity on the EJ/JQ board.
But I was in high school when I first read that book and I was rather innocent when it came to such matters, especially invovling sex that wasn't strictly missionary.
And Lisa Kleypas was the first author I read whose sex scenes were H-O-T and sensual. And well, she opened my eyes in a lot of ways when I first read her in high school ... plus, I think there's one scene in DOY where there's a sex scene in front of the mirror or there are mirrors involved.
It was so hot. I remember reading it after slipping it from my mom's mini-tower of romance novels and reading that book when she was somehwere else.
But LK's historical sex scenes are very memorable to me.
I have never looked at raspberries the same way after reading Suddenly You. LOL
LK IS HAWT! I love her books... And DOY is one of my DIKs... sigh... Any sex involving Derek is just wow. :)
An author I love for sex (and variety) is Toni Blake. They are hot, they are emotional, and true to each individual character and the situation they are in.
I'm finding I like heroes that are facegods so Blake's Jake definitely fits that bill. Ooh la la...LOL!
What about LK's BED. When Hardy and Haven do it the first time and it's his first time without a condom. When she asked something about what happens next and he said he was going to have a heart attack. That scene was funny but hot at the same time.
I haven't read BED yet... but it is on my soon to be read pile... ;)
What?! I read something before you? That never happens! LOL!
Hurry!
Yes but I've read all her historicals... lol!
Actually there might be one or two I haven't read... I've read more titles by her than any other long time author out there--now that's saying something. She's one of my faves.
Another sex scene that was memorable for me was Laura Lee Guhrke's And Then He Kissed Her...the peach sex scene. That scene was so damn hot.
God, I'm realizing a lot of sex scenes I remember involve food. LOL.
The sex scenes I remember the most are the ones with unusual emotions or dialogue - A couple of SEP come to mind -
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
It Had To Be You - where Phoebe asks Dan to pretend she's a virgin and the reader knows the significance of that but Dan doesn't.
Kiss An Angel - when Alex finds out Daisy was a virgin the first time they make love and how significant that is cause he's been treating her like a slut.
Heaven Texas - this is one of my top hilarious scenes. Bobby Tom goes on and on to Gracie about how difficult their first time will be on him with her being a virgin and all because of the tremendous amount of pressure for him to perform.
There are a couple of angry or uncomfortable sex scenes that stick out for me too.
*SPOILERS AGAIN*
Madeline Hunter's The Seducer where Daniel has angry sex with Diane believing she was having sex with him to protect his enemy when she was in fact trying to protect him.
Mary Balogh's More Than A Mistress - when Jocelyn has rough sex with Jane after finding out she's been lying to him. It's very uncomfortable to read but very compelling. I don't want to start the whole controversial forced seducation convo again but Mary Balogh has done this scenario a few times to very great affect, IMHO.
I'm not a fan of rape but sometimes, especially in that time period, men got to take what they wanted and the women had to suffer through it. Balogh does a great job of showing the emotion in those situations and always does a great job of making the hero realize his error and grovel to get back into the heroine's good graces.
I think all the political correctness has erased these angry sex scenes from the historicals being written today. I think it's a valid plot device and I could see it happening more often than not. The hero gets mad at the heroine and his only form of control or exertion of power is in the bedroom. It doesn't have to be violent just him asserting his rights and not taking her feelings into consideration.
Wow - I guess I had a lot to say on this subject!!!! Sorry about the rambling! LOL
That's interesting Irish. I do that in my current book. I love forced manly scenes. Defines and builds character.
No worries... you weren't rambling... :)
And, Ely, you're not the only one who questioned LK's use of the "let me love you this way" line and I was a whole lot older than 17 when I read it. LOL! I must have missed the discussion on the EJ/JQ bulletin board, otherwise, I would have fessed up and admitted I was a little confused as well!
Years later as I got more adventurous in my reading I read a scene that left no doubt as to what they were doing! I'm thinking it might have been a book by Robin Schone, I'm not sure, though.
Orphan Train Series
Caroline and the Raider 1992
Emma and the Outlaw 1991
Lily and the Major 1990
It was Lily and the Major. A purple book...and I don't know if the sex was THAT explicit, but it was for its time. *LOL*
Phew, Irish, I thought I was the only one!!! LOL.
I thought Elizabeth Hoyt's Raven Prince, the one where she's pretending to be a courtesan and they do it on a chair. That was a good one.
In Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros, the first scene where the sexual tension culminated was hot, sweet and moving without being explicit or vulgar. I totally love it. Right now, I'm reading Julie Anne Long's The Secret To Seduction and I'm quite amazed at the amount of heat in it because her debut was quite tame in comparison.
Jennybrat
http://bratsweetnothings.blogspot.com
Marn, Jennybrat, great books for sexual tension and sex scenes.
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