Swinging/Orgies in Novels

[Starlet1 1]

Hi all, we love reading and thought Swingers/Orgies/Promiscuity as a subplot in books would be great.

 

LS Hilton's Maestra was great - its a geniune thriller with a protagonist who loves sex parties.

 

Can anyone recommend other books or authors?  Anything is great, but we particularly love thrillers.  

[Starlet1 1]

A new book I'm reading at the moment 'A Good Marriage' by Kimberly McCreight features a sex party as a plot element. It's a good read, and the sex party elements add titillation to the story.

[Kit Candor 2]

On 9/7/2022 at 8:59 PM, Starlet1 said:

Hi all, we love reading and thought Swingers/Orgies/Promiscuity as a subplot in books would be great.

 

LS Hilton's Maestra was great - its a geniune thriller with a protagonist who loves sex parties.

 

Can anyone recommend other books or authors?  Anything is great, but we particularly love thrillers.  

 

[Kit Candor 2]

I’m an author who has begun writing about Swinging. I’m trying to do something different than most erotic writers (that I have seen) do. I’m trying to do a storyline and deeper character development that addresses what lead people into a specific swinging experience, or swinging in general, and also address the doubts and emotional issues that go along with it. But when there’s a sex scene it will be very explicit. 
 

So, normal looking and thinking  people doing it , objective and descriptive language to describe it   (versus metaphorical or cliche  language like flower and love-Rod) and a storyline that leads to some evolution of character development.

 

i think it’s innovative and different but who knows ? If anyone wants to check it out, the first three “episodes” of my first story, “Acceptable Risk” is available at The Amazon Kindle Vella store - here:

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK5P6BW2/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=SGNM4ZLH1FGK&keywords=acceptable+risk&qid=1666533946&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjU3IiwicXNhIjoiMS40NSIsInFzcCI6IjIuMzMifQ%3D%3D&s=falkor&sprefix=%2Caps%2C137&sr=1-1

 

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[couplers 4,640]

You bring back intense memories of a book that I purchased in a used bookstore on the Cape, The Mists of Avalon.

 

I was a girl becoming a woman who had already discovered the joys of my clitoris.  At the end of a chapter, Gwenywyfar invites both Arthur and Lancelot into her bed in a threesome, something unimaginable to this Catholic girl.

 

As it turned out, life eventually imitated art and I ended up with a husband and boyfriend. 

[SJBluebirds 195]

Meh.

 

In General, I find graphic depictions of who's doing what to whom, putting what body part(s) into another's orifice and cries of surprise and invoking deities to be completely off-putting and distracting from what I would have hoped to have been an otherwise good story.

 

It doesn't have to be about swingers or orgies or whatever -- even the highly-detailed descriptions (see above) in a standard one-man/one-woman romance are annoying.

 

That said, it's the rare -- Very Rare -- smut novel that has good plot and character development that I enjoy more:  I'd rather find a surprisingly good, thoughtful story in what I expected to be pure stroke/wank material, than to find needlessly graphic depictions of sex (of any kind) in a more 'mainstream' work.

 

In the early days of the Darpanet, I discovered Metlay's "Bandit" series, and a few years ago, it was Nick Scipio's "Summer Camp" series.  Both are/were surprisingly good reads.

Edited October 28, 2022 by SJBluebirds

[couplers 4,640]

1 hour ago, SJBluebirds said:

In General, I find graphic depictions of who's doing what to whom, putting what body part(s) into another's orifice and cries of surprise and invoking deities to be completely off-putting and distracting from what I would have hoped to have been an otherwise good story.

I agree totally, but there was none of that in The Mists of Avalon.  It was the idea that gripped me so hard and stuck in my young mind for days, much like the time a girl in my elementary school class asked the nun what a "mistress" is.  She said it was the girlfriend of a married man.  My thought was that's sounds nice, I'd like to be that.

 

Mists is the King Arthur story told from a woman's perspective, which fascinated me.  Gwenhwyfar is childless and the reason she and Arthur invite Lancelot into their bed, and into Gwenhwyfar, is to make a child in the king's bed while Arthur was in town so that he (a male, hopefully) would be the legitimate heir.  Gwenhwyfar is in love with Lancelot and welcomes the opportunity on both levels.

 

Fortunately for me, however, that's where life stopped imitating art.  Clair accidently got pregnant by hubby (she wasn't screwing Red at the time).  She was distraught thinking it would upset hubby and/or, but I was ecstatic.  We took the day off from work went out and celebrated with lunch, new clothes, a baby thing or two.  I didn't care what hubby would think, we were having this baby.  Turns out he was shocked and as happy as me.  We also decided that I would try to get pregnant ASAP, and as in the book tried to conceive with both hubby and Red.  Unlike the book, I quickly was pregnant.

Edited October 28, 2022 by couplers

[PeterJ 948]

2 hours ago, SJBluebirds said:

"I find graphic depictions of who's doing what to whom, putting what body part(s) into another's orifice and cries of surprise and invoking deities to be completely off-putting and distracting…"

Agreed! Too often these almost clinically detailed descriptions strike me as ludicrous. 😂
 

I’ve read porn descriptions of scenes exactly like ones I’ve experienced. The actuality was great, but the verbal description of an identical scene was laughable.

 

As someone who made his living for a decade as a writer at a prestigious newspaper, I acknowledge that writing about something that’s only happened in one’s mind’s eye is way more difficult than writing non-fiction. My hat’s off to all fiction writers, erotic and otherwise, even if I find their work unreadable.

[Numex 2,416]

We're too busy having sex we want to also be reading about it.  I can understand, however, the way reading about a threesome, particularly a loving one, could effect a young adult's mind, opening it up to possibilities.