Using 'Fade to Black' in Erotica?

Same here. In the sequel I'm working on, two male side characters have a rough, detailed, stress-relief fuck in a starship stateroom - both are using the other man as surrogate for someone else they can't have. After that scene the first character goes back to his new girlfriend, who encouraged him to the M/M encounter in the first place. We know they're going to fuck now, but I can close the door on that one.

Very interesting thread and great responses. I have thought about this in my own work as well. I have a "fade to black" scene I may need to revisit. What it comes down to for me is that I think in erotica you want to have a lot of sex scenes, but not every scene has to be about sex. I think you'd need to establish within the narrative what that particular scene is meant to convey, and if it's not just sexiness, what is it? There is a difference between PWP (or "porn without plot" as they say in the fan-fiction communities), straight up Erotica, and Erotic Romance. I think in particularly if you are going for more of a Erotic Romance angle, characters can have sex and it be more on the less explicit side as long as explicit sex does exist elsewhere within the work.