Sex scene countdown

[resonant]

I wondered how many sex scenes I'd written. (Don't ask me why I wondered this; wondering has no "why.") Anyhow, I went and counted, and as best I can tell I've written:

48 m/m sex scenes

and

1 m/f sex scene.

This includes scenes in stories (including a couple that got R ratings because they were tagless and thus no body parts were mentioned; if there were orgasms involved, I counted them as sex scenes), and also scenes that got cut from stories and published as "bonus" scenes linked off the story notes. If you count the three from the never-to-be-finished "Six Weeks," which haven't actually been published anywhere, then it takes the total up to 51.

Those scenes come out of 36 published stories plus Transfigurations, which hasn't been published yet. I counted the Jim/Scott scene from Nuance, but not the Jim/Blair one, because liviapenn wrote that one. And I counted the scene in Origin even though it was written in collaboration with kassrachel, so maybe I ought to say fifty and a half.

Now I'm curious how that compares to other writers' work. How many sex scenes have you written? How do they break down as far as gender? What's your story-to-sex-scene ratio?

Comments

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how many m/m scenes I've written in the past 20 years of various pen names and discarded fandoms, countless hundreds, but I know I've written one true m/f scene, and two f/m scenes where the f later turned out to be an m.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

All of my stories involve sex scenes, pretty much, except for two vignettes: the Daria one I wrote for the Inappropriate Elf Challenge, and my Iron Chef Shack. I'm pretty sure all the rest have sex in 'em, and it's all m/m.

So that's 2 Sentinel shacks, 38 Sentinel stories (at least one of which has multiple sex scenes in it :-), and 4 Sentinel sonnets or sonnet sequences with sex in 'em. Plus 6 due South stories, one HP story with a pair of sex scenes in it, and one piece of 24 slash, also with sex. That's...um...53 sex scenes, I guess, give or take a few.

Not bad for three and a half years' work, eh? :-)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Lessee. Seventeen stories posted (*ack*), including a couple of 500-word shorties. And, using your criteria, um ... seven, maybe eight, sex scenes. (All m/m, FWIW.) The "maybe" grows out of how rigorously one counts fading-to-black, or fading-in-from-black, scenes.

Wow, that's kind of perversely impressive--my ability to avoid writing sex, that is. Prior to posting End of the Road, it was 16 stories and 4 sex scenes. And that 4:1 ratio feels about right for everything I have in progress or plotted out from here on. Sometimes I wonder whether I really can legitimately call myself a slash writer. *g*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

have been writing sex scenes since i was what? 14?
hee. a lot of pwp's and a lot of unfinished stories (most of my stories are unfinished). when i was 14-18, i wrote het, het, het. i -read- het, het, het (*points at your icon* hee. yah, like that).
then, it broke down into writing a bit of het and a bunch of lesbian softcore... wasn't really sex, but it was girl/girl. but only one sex scene. but like, for most of my writing, there was -some- sex in it (what the hell? but yes). if there wasn't sex in it, it just means i didn't write it for long enough, heh. it was probably a 70% sex-to-no-sex ratio.

now that i write mostly fanfic (and mostly slash), i write less sex. i mean, it's like, probably 30-40% sex. and if i write sex, i tend to write sexual-organs-and-orgasms type of sex. unless it's just humping and they never orgasm because i'm not into it. i remember the first real slashfic i wrote. no, it wasn't harry/draco-- i had begun reading (and even writing) h/d and potterfic by then, but mostly i just read it. but it gave me the idea for my original!slash (http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~lorien/story/demons.html). it had sex in it, but i chickened out and wrote het sex (sort of) where it should've been slash sex, but that was plot for ya. i -think-. but i -wanted- to write slash sex, it just didn't fit, i thought. hee. you could tell me what you think if you like ;)

but anyway. i tend to not write sex in a fanfic for 1 reason, mostly: my pairing being harry/draco, i feel i need set-up for it. it's a long journey before harry'd want to fuck draco, and i hate setting it "in the future", and i don't have a need to write other pairings. i've actually written fluff where sex was -never- gonna happen, but that's just... er. well, that's more in my "humorfic" mode, which isn't usually my smutfic mode. i -have- written humorous!smut (recently), but i don't tend to. that's why i feel i need a Good Reason for sex to happen-- 'cause it's usually in a "serious" fic.

so i guess i'm just so caught up in set up and characterization, i thwart my natural need to have the characters go at each other like rabid bunnies on crack~:)
usually, in almost any fic i write, i have sexual references of some sort, even if just in passing, simply because that's how people -are- in my head, otherwise it's just no fun. i mean.... gah. what else is there? hee. talk, talk, talk-- one gets tired of it~:)

and i like -never- write angstfic of the sort where people are just frustrated and there's all this ust and it never goes anywhere, simply because they're like, zero fun to write (for me). so i definitely know what you're saying. the sex is everywhere. hee.

i don't think it's a smuttiness factor (though it is) as much as it's... just... when people are being "natural", if it's a romance at all.
and i write a lot of romance.
that, or complete fantasy (though it tends to be fantasy romance), but i don't write so much "just fantasy" in the potterverse since it's -her- fantasy and i like my own~:) hee. *sigh* i hope that answered...er... something. but yes. mostly i write slash now, but before fanfic, i wrote het (big surprise). with smatterings of femmeslash, if you could call it that~:)

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

As a newbie-fanfic writer (of the Harry Potter variety), I'm currently utterly blocked on sex scenes in several places.
51 under your belt? I hate you.
But you also wrote The Familiar, so I worship you.
I hate you and I worship you. I'm very confused.

Anyway, 51 out of 36+. I guess it depends how many stories are "here's an interesting situation, lets play this out" and how many are "Starting from this point, and this premise...", since the second group are more likely to have more than one passionate moment within the story.

The gender breakdown? Well, most of the universes that you write stories for tend to have more engaging male characters (and certainly more male-male pairings that are dying to be explored) than female characters and female-male pairings. This is just from my perspective, though, and doesn't actually answer any of your questions. Sorry 'bout that.

<i>How</i> much sex?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Currently I'm at (not including drabbles):

19 stories (14 Harry Potter, 5 LotR).
15 sex scenes.

Once I finish 'Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock' that total will be:

20 stories.
19 sex scenes.

But it seems to be that certain stories have an excessive amount of sex. Because of the 19, 10 don't have any sex at all.

m/f? - Ha! What's that?

~Icarus

Re: <i>How</i> much sex?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh. Right.

If you count the 27 chapters of 'Primer to the Dark Arts' as separate stories, then it's:

45 stories.
16 m/m sex scenes.

Of course there were a lot of sex scenes in a 170-page Slash-romance. Oh. I forgot one. *edits* There were six sex scenes in Primer.

breaking out the abacus...

[miraminx.livejournal.com]

I've written 49 stories. Holy leaping slashers, Batman! how'd that happen? oh yeah, it's all the PWPS. And that explains the 47 sex scenes-- 49 if you include the two rape scenes. Six stories (or eight, if you're in the "rape is not sex" crowd) have no sex scenes. The most sex scenes in a single story: three (in 3 different stories).

--Minx, numerically

[thete1.livejournal.com]

I'm... actually a little afraid of that question. Whenever I start thinking about how many sex scenes I've written (dear God, how many are in Little Gods *alone*?), I start worrying that I'm being unoriginal, boring, a hack... gah.

[tinriddick.livejournal.com]

"She amuses her self with silly questions...
...about the world below...
Such as, "How many couples are having an orgasm right now?"
"15!"
- from the movie Amelie
Not, by any means, is what you ask a silly question just thats what popped into my head when I read it :)
sorry, going away now....

Re: breaking out the abacus...

[miraminx.livejournal.com]

I forgot to say that they're all m/m. Whoops.

[millefiori.livejournal.com]

How many sex scenes have you written?

Oh wow - just going by what I've posted/archived, and counting by sessions, I'd say 29. That's 15 in Herc/Xena fandom, 11 in HP, and 3 in original fic.

How do they break down as far as gender?

Lets see... 2 m/m/f, 19 m/m, 1 f/f/m, 3 m/m/m, 3 m/f, and 1 m.

What's your story-to-sex-scene ratio?

Uhm, I have a few stories with no sex, and a few stories with multiple sex scenes, but the majority are 1/1 I think.

Good God, this was like trying to do homework! Statistics or algebra or something equally horrid. *shudder* And I'm not certain I got it right! (Thank heavens nobody's grading.)

[bettyp.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh, because we're all so tired of the hot sex. *snerk*

[thete1.livejournal.com]

I knew it! I knew it! *snicker*

But it's more like wondering how in *God's* name I'm going to arrange the limited number of smut scenarios in a way I haven't done before that's *also* in character.

ah, thank you search & replace...

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Well, it seems to me that out of 94 completed fanfic stories in seven fandoms, there are nine full out het scenes, 36 gay ones and one lonesome f/f naked frolic. There are perhaps a dozen stories with girls getting smooched by boys, but 49 with boys kissing boys.

Heh.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

170 stories online. 99 stories rated NC-17 or R, but not all of the Rs are for something that can be called a sex scene. ::counts some more:: 78 stories wherein sex is actually had. 101 sex scenes, including the not-too-explicit ones and a fair amount of masturbation, and some stories that were really hard to know how to count the sex scenes in, so I sort of approximated. *g* Three f/f scenes, one m/f, 97 m/m.

So that's about 0.6 sex scenes per story, or alternately, about 1.3 sex scenes per story with actual sex in it.

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Hrmm. Well, I have to say I kick all ass in the sex scene department because I wrote a four-man-one-woman orgy for...*ponders* Two and a half years, at an average of nine hours a day, in a chatroom with one of my friends. At last count, we were at 56,000 pages.

That's a lotta sex.

I'm really sick of it now. But I'm still writing.

[manna]

I've been meaning to count up sex scenes for ages ('cause then I can make a little graph in Excel...):

54 stories published in zines or on-line, or about to be published soon, for a total of 688000 words. Nineteen of them have no sex scenes, but they total only 37000 words.

There are 82 sex scenes. They divide up as 67 m/m, 11 f/m, 5 solo. (Plus one f/f story with a fade-to-black.)

That's 1.5 sex scenes per story, or 1 per 8400 words.

Taking only those stories with sex in them, it's 2.4 sex scenes per story, but still 1 per 7900 words.

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

See, my problem is that I may refer briefly to sex, but it's not a real out and out smut scene if it's only a paragraph, eh?

Well, then, I very rarely write sex. And it's more and more rare as I go. I can think of two m/m real pieces of smut that I've written in the Harry Potter fandom. And then two m/f. No real f/f smut yet. 1 m/f from another fandom recently.

And in the popslash fandom, hmmm. Maybe 10 m/m and 3 f/f. Before that, I had two f/f in earlier fandoms and 5 m/m.

This, though I've put out easily 80+ stories over time.