genstarr replied to your post: Kevin’s Sense of Smut
Is this based on intuition or how well worn the binding is at those passages? Ahem.
The protagonist and the love/sex interest will usually have gotten to know each other well enough for sex to happen at around the same time in most of these formulaic thrillers. Also, authors tend to throw some sex in at around the same point to perk up a reader’s flagging interest. So, it’s based on knowledge of the formula more than anything else.
Now, me, on the other hand: I’m writing (slowly) a fantasy Western, and I just went ahead and threw in a couple sex scenes in the second chapter, because why the hell not?
