: Re: How to research sex for writing? I'm not writing erotica - I'm writing fantasy and sci-fi. But sometimes my characters make love, sometimes in ways I cannot be familiar with. In one story,

For writers of fiction, research is not the answer. The basic instruction for new writers is to 'write what you know'. If you detail an experience of a deaf person having sex . . . and get it woefully wrong - you will be called out as a fraud. You will lose that demographic forever.

With experience you'll learn to 'associate' and 'map'. If you feel you've ever been denied a job opportunity because you are a woman, then you'll make a good fist of faking the same POV as an African-American.

The mechanics of sex are relatively unimportant. The thoughts of a gay person losing their virginity are probably no different to straight a person's.

Deep thoughts about these issues can be source of great scenes . . .

A mute girl consents to sex but in the middle of the act changes her mind - how can she communicate 'no'.

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