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To those who read stories with pairings and/or sexual content (whether you like it or simply see it as just part of the story - you don't have to say which) have you ever come across a story - a relatively well-written story - where you felt the pairing and/or sexual content unnecessary? Either that or the story would have been better without it?
I've run into stories where the pairing is made known in a few scattered lines or a paragraph or two, and any sexual content is off-screen, hinted at rather than described. But between those pairing moments, the story is easy enough to read as gen. Of course, for me, my immediate thought is "this story would have been better without those bits and pieces of of pairing." I'm not a fan of pairings, I'm really not a fan of sexual content, so feel let down when a story ends up including one, the other or both. In other words, I have a bias, so can't say for sure if the story would have been better off without said content or if I'm simply lamenting that it isn't gen.
But I can say that I have come across whump stories in which the whump felt unnecessary, or the whump method used was unnecessary (or unrealistically heavy). We all have our buttons and our kink but even they have limits.
Anyway, just curious. It's easy to nit-pick poorly written stories. Well-written stories, not so much. Whenever I read a well-written story and run into something that makes me frown and go "hmmm" I can never be sure if I'm actually spying an issue or simply missing something (or if I'm being biased :P)
And, okay, people, really - oral sex? WTF?! Studies have linked it to throat and mouth cancer, among other problems. I think nature's trying to tell us something, all while shaking a disapproving finger.
I've run into stories where the pairing is made known in a few scattered lines or a paragraph or two, and any sexual content is off-screen, hinted at rather than described. But between those pairing moments, the story is easy enough to read as gen. Of course, for me, my immediate thought is "this story would have been better without those bits and pieces of of pairing." I'm not a fan of pairings, I'm really not a fan of sexual content, so feel let down when a story ends up including one, the other or both. In other words, I have a bias, so can't say for sure if the story would have been better off without said content or if I'm simply lamenting that it isn't gen.
But I can say that I have come across whump stories in which the whump felt unnecessary, or the whump method used was unnecessary (or unrealistically heavy). We all have our buttons and our kink but even they have limits.
Anyway, just curious. It's easy to nit-pick poorly written stories. Well-written stories, not so much. Whenever I read a well-written story and run into something that makes me frown and go "hmmm" I can never be sure if I'm actually spying an issue or simply missing something (or if I'm being biased :P)
And, okay, people, really - oral sex? WTF?! Studies have linked it to throat and mouth cancer, among other problems. I think nature's trying to tell us something, all while shaking a disapproving finger.
