: You may be confusing erotic writing and pornographic writing. It's possible for something to be erotic with very little graphic detail, and sometimes entirely without consummation, and it's

@Samaraweera193

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You may be confusing erotic writing and pornographic writing. It's possible for something to be erotic with very little graphic detail, and sometimes entirely without consummation, and it's also quite possible for something to be graphically sexual and not the least bit erotic. Eros is about tension and frustration, and delayed gratification, whereas sex is about fulfillment --two different, and often incompatible things.

But let's assume you want both between the same covers (of a book!).
It's not
so difficult. Just give your protagonist lots of sexual experiences that fall short of the true object of desire --encounters watched, glimpsed or described, encounters with the wrong person, encounters with another wrong person, encounters cut short, encounters remembered, and so forth.

I always think of it as being kind of like a kung-fu movie. Your hero doesn't fight your big villain right away. Instead there are a bunch of fights staged between every other combination of characters --hero vs secondary hero, hero vs little villain, little villain vs big villain, big villain vs secondary hero, hero and secondary hero against an entire crowd of little villains, and so forth. It all builds anticipation for the big fight, the one everyone came to see.

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