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As a caveat: do ''not'' throw in a sex scene just because you can. Needless, gratuitous sex depiction is called [[Fan Service]], or [[Pandering to the Base]], or--let's be frank--pornography. If you are going to include a sex scene, it should ''provide [[Character Development]].'' Believe it or not, that's possible. In [[The Bible]], the phrase "[[Get Thee to a Nunnery|to know]]" is sometimes a euphemism for getting it on... and when you have sex with someone, you certainly gain knowledge of them that most people will never learn. Sex can be a good time for these revelations, particularly if the revelations ''are'' sexual in nature. But if you're not going to go for character development--if the only important fact is that your characters are ''having'' sex--don't rub The Reader's face in it. Use the discretion shot, or a [[Sexy Shirt Switch]], or whatever. (Or ''do'' go for it, embrace the smutdom, and aim for the sex sites. [[The Internet Is for Porn|There's a market for that too!]])
If you ''have'' decided to go for it, you now skirt a whole new set of pitfalls: [[Erection Rejection]], [[IKEA Erotica]], [[Purple Prose]] and so forth. If we had a "So You Want To Write Erotica" page, this would be the time to link to it. But we don't
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