: A good erotica should not have crazy sex on page three, or at least the sex that the reader is emotionally invested in. After all, that would (figuratively and literally) be blowing your

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A good erotica should not have crazy sex on page three, or at least the sex that the reader is emotionally invested in. After all, that would (figuratively and literally) be blowing your load way too freaking early.

With erotica, treat it as a set of teases and growing anticipation; establish a relationship between the sexees that's compelling, and make the reader curious about how it's all going to be consummated.

It's an erotica, of course the sex is going to happen, and there'll be several tense situations and near misses along the way. But how you do this, whether or not the inevitable sex is a good thing or a bad thing for the protagonist, all of that... well, that's what makes each erotica unique.

I don't know what kind of erotica you're thinking of which blows its load as early as page three then rinses and repeats ad infinitum. One should be interested in the main character's sexuality by page three, but there shouldn't be sex with major stakes so early. It's as absurd as having a fantasy where the adventurers confront and defeat the evil overlord on page three, and the rest of the novel just being repeat performances of magic battles with the same overlord. It'd be stupid.

And believe it or not, despite there being a thousand mass-produced Cyborg Sizzle garbage eroticas a penny on Amazon, erotica doesn't have to be stupid. Try a little harder. Approach it like an actual freaking story that just happens to place its stakes in sexuality.

Edit: In response to your edits and changed definition, I'll summarise thus; if you're writing a masturbatory aide and nothing more, then you don't need an arc. Write your crazy sex page and repeat ad nauseum. You'll have market among those who seek literary masturbatory aides, and trust me, that market exists, but you won't make much money per copy sold (Cyborg Sizzle, for example, costs [CO].00 per copy on Amazon).

I can hardly say you're being a modern-day Icarus, and your waxy wings shall most certainly not melt from ambition, but if your aim is truly to write a masturbatory aide, just write one. It doesn't need an arc or even compelling characters. Just copy-paste a Cyborg Sizzle book and change the names and you'll have technically succeeded. Even Fifty Shades of Grey was more ambitious than this.

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