Recently, I have seen talk about sex levels–bringing the heat vs. leaving it behind closed doors. Okay so it made me think of my mother tsking and shaking her head, then saying,

“Why do you have to add all that. It’s gratuitous sex. You’re just pandering to the public.” 

Um… yeah… and?

No, not really. I do NOT pander. I write sex scenes, because for me, it is a natural progression of the story. And it works for me. I had a writer friend tell me she didn’t think she could write (and leave it in the final product) a sex scene. It just didn’t feel right to her. And it’s not that she CAN’T write the scene–she has written them before and one in particular sticks out in my mind and was very well done. But on a whole, it just doesn’t work for her.

One of my most favorite books had nothing more than a kiss or two and it worked. It was exactly as the story warranted and afterwards, thinking on it, had she gone farther, it wouldn’t have seemed right.

And I have read some SPECTACULAR books that turned my ears red while reading, they were so hot–and it was just what that book needed!

I can remember the very first time I wrote a SEX scene. It just so happens, it was in the first book I wrote–as an adult, not the many I did when I was a tween–I was a good little girl.  (No really, I swear…)  But as I wrote the scene, it just felt natural and I was pleased with it. I have since ratcheted up my heat some.

Here at SFC, we have varying degrees of heat, but we all have the heat nonetheless. From enjoyable to pop-cycle melting scenes.

So let me ask you, my dear writer friends–what do you prefer in your writing? How far do you/would you go? And awsome reader friends–how about you? Do you like the sweet or do you want the pop-cycle melting scorcher?

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