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So I've got a fantasy story on the boil at the moment. The plot, characters and themes all standalone. Sex is not the major driver of the story, although I have included several explicit sex scenes because they work to characterise certain individuals, explain the system of magic and it also gives the story a dark overtone which I find quite pleasing and useful. Removing these scene's would weaken what I've got going on.
But at the end of the day the idea of the novel isn't erotica and I want to keep it in the fantasy rather than erotica genre. I also don't have this kind of thing with enough frequency to make it an erotic novel. I've thought of toning it down and making those scene's less explicit. But the first of those scene's for example has one character entrap another during intercourse and the unfolding of the entrapment is closely linked with certain actions during sex.
Toning this one down will either make what happens a bit confusing or lose the tension in the scene. It also demonstrates certain [non-physical] abilities of one character in particular. So artistically I don't want to do a zoom out and make everything hinted at for the sake of making it a tamer read.
My villainess is characterised by her dominant sexual fetishes, which make the scenes with her in it more entertaining than say a torture scene would, or a scene in which she verbally threatens someone else. It's a bit of black humour on my part and I think it works well in the context. Her bitchiness comes out without her turning into an omnipotent, dark overlord, but still scary by her weirdness.
So how can I ensure it's more fantasy than fetish? Or do I even need to. I'm confused because I didn't plan this story this way, it was a way to break the writers block I had around the novel. Then I decided the tangent into erotica was an improvement and I want to keep it without thrusting the whole thing into that genre.
Sorry if this is the wrong part of the forum to ask. It's a really vast forum and I'm not always sure where something should go.
But at the end of the day the idea of the novel isn't erotica and I want to keep it in the fantasy rather than erotica genre. I also don't have this kind of thing with enough frequency to make it an erotic novel. I've thought of toning it down and making those scene's less explicit. But the first of those scene's for example has one character entrap another during intercourse and the unfolding of the entrapment is closely linked with certain actions during sex.
Toning this one down will either make what happens a bit confusing or lose the tension in the scene. It also demonstrates certain [non-physical] abilities of one character in particular. So artistically I don't want to do a zoom out and make everything hinted at for the sake of making it a tamer read.
My villainess is characterised by her dominant sexual fetishes, which make the scenes with her in it more entertaining than say a torture scene would, or a scene in which she verbally threatens someone else. It's a bit of black humour on my part and I think it works well in the context. Her bitchiness comes out without her turning into an omnipotent, dark overlord, but still scary by her weirdness.
So how can I ensure it's more fantasy than fetish? Or do I even need to. I'm confused because I didn't plan this story this way, it was a way to break the writers block I had around the novel. Then I decided the tangent into erotica was an improvement and I want to keep it without thrusting the whole thing into that genre.
Sorry if this is the wrong part of the forum to ask. It's a really vast forum and I'm not always sure where something should go.