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elspethdixon) wrote2013-05-13 11:37 pm
elspethdixon) wrote2013-05-13 11:37 pm
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They're were-jaguars, author, not were-hyenas
Generally, when I read either romance novels or fic, I tend to skim over the sex scenes. But every once in a while, a particular line will jump out at me and force me to pat attention, like the following one from one of Juliana Stone's older novels that made me re-read the entire page trying to figure out what exactly the guy was doing to the woman:
He flicked his tongue teasingly, finding the engorged bud that glistened with the cream of her sex. Her body jerked, and he growled deeply against her warmth, and without hesitation his hot mouth opened wide and he took all of her deeply into him.
The bolded bit reads like it accidentally sneaked in from a completely different oral sex scene involving m/m blow jobs. What exactly is the "all of her" that he's taking into him? The "her" in this sex scene is a cis woman, as one can tell by the variety of euphemisms used for her clitoris ("engorged bud" is joined later on by a couple of others, and we also get a description of the "slick, wet folds of her sex"). She's not wearing any kind of strap-on, so what body part exactly is it that he's taking deep into his mouth? Is he deep-throating the disembodied zombie cock of Rob Lowe?
I doubt the author wrote a slash fic, swapped one guys gender, and then missed a line when editing the sex scenes, because a major plot element involves the two of them having a biological kid together. Did she take "write what you know" a little too far ("Cunnilingus is totally exactly the same as giving a guy a blow-job, right? Right? I'm not going to ask my husband/boyfriend, because that would be embarrassing, so I'll just assume it is. Also, vaginal secretions totally taste like dessert toppings, right?*")
*Okay, so this book didn't actually do the "honey/syrup/other sweet and delicious things" comparisons, but an awful lot of het romance does. I don't know where that trope comes from, because in over a decade of reading m/m slash fic, including slash by lesbians who've never seen a real, live naked cock, I've yet to come across semen that tastes like candy.
He flicked his tongue teasingly, finding the engorged bud that glistened with the cream of her sex. Her body jerked, and he growled deeply against her warmth, and without hesitation his hot mouth opened wide and he took all of her deeply into him.
The bolded bit reads like it accidentally sneaked in from a completely different oral sex scene involving m/m blow jobs. What exactly is the "all of her" that he's taking into him? The "her" in this sex scene is a cis woman, as one can tell by the variety of euphemisms used for her clitoris ("engorged bud" is joined later on by a couple of others, and we also get a description of the "slick, wet folds of her sex"). She's not wearing any kind of strap-on, so what body part exactly is it that he's taking deep into his mouth? Is he deep-throating the disembodied zombie cock of Rob Lowe?
I doubt the author wrote a slash fic, swapped one guys gender, and then missed a line when editing the sex scenes, because a major plot element involves the two of them having a biological kid together. Did she take "write what you know" a little too far ("Cunnilingus is totally exactly the same as giving a guy a blow-job, right? Right? I'm not going to ask my husband/boyfriend, because that would be embarrassing, so I'll just assume it is. Also, vaginal secretions totally taste like dessert toppings, right?*")
*Okay, so this book didn't actually do the "honey/syrup/other sweet and delicious things" comparisons, but an awful lot of het romance does. I don't know where that trope comes from, because in over a decade of reading m/m slash fic, including slash by lesbians who've never seen a real, live naked cock, I've yet to come across semen that tastes like candy.