Writing sex

I'm in a "post-every-other-day"-mood so it's time to sit down and rethink through my actions. Well, this is not at all as dramatic as older posts have been, and my embarrassment takes me three days back, so it's not some angst from years back.

While watching porn hasn't really been my thing, reading sex is a much more pleasent experience. This doesn't mean I google around to read shady sex stories just for the sex, rather if a story has a nice sex scene in it, I like it very much. Both queer and straight sex is nice to read about, according to me.

WELL this is now the bridge over to the real story I was going to tell you.

Over the past weeks I've read a nice lil fanfic that, for a change, is not a lenghty masterpiece worth the Nobel Literature Price, is not a sadistic, angsty story about torture, and not a dramatic piece of redemption, no, no, it's a cute little romantic piece.

Romance. I never read romance, but at that moment I craved it between those two characters, so I googled a cute fluff story and got to reading.

I knew the author was less experienced than the other internet authors I've read and probably a little bit younger too, but when she at the end of the latest chapter asked the readers "what do you think happens next?" I wrote a comment suggesting the characters would have sex.

After my comment, more readers called for sex scenes, and the author made an announcement that she'll practice writing sex scenes, though she's never done it before.

And then it hit me. What if this girl was even more younger than I assumed? I just assumed she's an 18 or so year old woman, with actual experience of romance and sex and all that jazz, but what if she's actually just 14 or something like that, and she's never had sex before, and I had put a snowball effect running where her few readers ask for sex and she's not comfortable with that? I got bad conscience and hoped that she was okay with writing sex, now that there was clearly a request for it.

Today she posted the newest chapter and I set up a cozy reading spot in the sofa and the first thing I did was scrolling down to her author's note where she wrote she did in fact rate the story M in this chapter.

All my worries were uncalled for. She did a great job writing the sex scenes and didn't seem to hide the fact that she really committed to write it. Yes, there were some clichés, but also stuff I though were good additions, and this poor girl still writes in her author's notes that she's "nervous about this chapter".

Okay, so now I'm going to write her a nice comment for this chapter so she's not terrified of what the horny readers think.

Oh, and one final thing. Even if this is a privat issue I don't feel like this is taboo. People write sex and want to read sex and it should be no weirdness around it. Period.