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Writing Post 2019

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How do you decide whether to leave porn at an m-rating or bump it up to explicit?

Assuming both you and recip are comfortable with either.

Overall pacing of the story? My explicit porn tends to be a lot longer than mature because I'm describing more - the sex scenes aren't even usually a whole scene in my m-rated fic. Does the sex feel like a diversion/distraction or does it fit into the story more, er, organically?

It’s more like the tone of the canon and of the fic are on the lighter side. I feel like it’d be jarring to break out into bodily fluids and dick descriptions though I’m more of an explicit porn writer. Frankly, the story itself could end with a kiss and the porn is extra, but I don’t want to disappoint.

For me, if I'm using euphemisms, I'm talking about characters moving in/on/against each other, and there are no actual outright descriptions of aroused genitalia, that's M. Once I've gotten genuinely ... well, explicit ... about sex acts, or am starting to describe the colors/fluids dripping off of/visual appearance of naked genitals, that's E.

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And I guess I should expand a little and say - so bumping from one to the other just depends on whether I've got those specifics in mind and really feel like it suits my intentions with the story to include them. For me, there are some characters whose POVs just don't lend themselves to E-rated fic; and sometimes the emotional point of a scene isn't the sex itself but something happening before or after, in which case zooming in on the fucking at that level of detail doesn't serve that point.

But sometimes the point is the sex, or something specific that's going on during it (first time bottoming for a dude who's struggled with that, say, in an internalized homophobia fic) and in that case E's probably the better option. Or sometimes the point of the fic is in fact the porning for porn's own sake, and that means E all the way.

Yes, it’s about intentions with the story. I’m thinking along the same lines and M seems like a better stylistic choice in this case. Thank you!

I do it pretty organically? Depending on the vibe of the scene or the tone of the story leading up to it, I’ll do outright sex or have it drift out.

I’m not a 1-2-3 fingers and then fuck type writer, through, so I sometimes wonder if readers don’t consider my sex to be “full” sex. Sometimes the main event is just hands/mouths, sometimes I start the scene mid-sex and it carries after the orgasms, sometimes the scene is just jumping into the fucking and it will end before anyone comes or only one of them does, and sometimes I’ll have a full sex scene but it’s literally just kissing to fucking with no other foreplay beyond talking/mental stimulation.

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I was actually wondering the same thing re: difference between T and M.

Like, I tend to rate things "T" when the characters start making out, maybe there's the beginning of a handjob/blowjob, then mention of fucking, and fade out. Would be people be uncomfortable with that level of sexual content for T, or should that be M? I am not sure if my Euro-vision is affecting my judgment here.

I often lean towards rating things "M" more likely if the general tone of the fic is darker, or if there are sensitive topics involved ...

Now I need to go back and see how many fics I've actually rated as "E" ... maybe one or two, where I experimented with more niche kink?

Wow I should be clicking on T-rated fics more often :D

From a former European, I get what you mean by T v. M doubts, and I end up tagging higher. Anything harder than kissing or light groping gets an M from me.

This made me go check my posted fic, and I've never tagged anything explicit no matter how descriptive the sex or the violence. I'm going to watch this thread carefully to see if I can figure out what I should be tagging explicit.

For me it’s do people come and/or do I show the sex scene from start to finish?

If so, it’s E. If I only show a snippit or cut away before they come/the sex is over, I go with E.

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