: Re: How do you make sex magic feel like a natural part of a setting? In this world, witchcraft is practiced openly and is a neccessary function of society. Men cannot use magic directly, but possess

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You need to reframe sex.

In the world today, sex is mostly associated with pleasure. You want to associate it with magic. You can do that by

a) making it a ritual. Instead of the free-flowing, spontaneous act that sex for pleasure is, sex magic has precise rules. Everything happens on cue, at a specific time in a specific order. Arousal is ensured through tried-and-tested procedures that work on purely biological excitement (it is quite possible to stimulate both men and women without having an emotional reaction).

b) clearly seperating the two. A witch certainly would have sex for pleasure as well. But she would have it with a different man (or, if you want to go there, woman). In a different location, in different clothes, etc.

c) or by going the other way entirely and basically tell the reader: "Have you ever had sex that was just magical? Well, it probably was exactly that..." and then focus the storytelling not on the biological details of which body part goes where, but on the inner emotions of the participants.

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