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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Maybe it's related to that stigma SLJ talked about? That an author gets so tense and so worried about offending that they unintentionally make it harder than it has to be, and in teh process become a bad writer for just that one scene.
Or maybe editors and publishers have unreasonable demands and make it more difficult than it needs to be?
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I don't know about the stigma aspect. I've got some adult only scenes in my book, and didn't fear offending anyone while I was writing them. Like Stephen, I didn't suddenly become a different writer, nor did my characters suddenly receive brain transplants when the sex got going.
To put it succinctly, the only thing that throbs in my book is a broken arm. There are no manhoods, elfhoods, or whatever other god-awful terms get used to avoid calling a penis a penis.
I do know that certain publishers (Harlequin springs to mind) require certain words be used, certain words not be used, and certain numbers of encounters occur, and so on and so forth. That level of constraint would have driven me bonkers.