Yes, there are adult warnings. Heed them. You know something’s hot when even my summaries need warnings!
Four very steamy links today from four very talented writers, over at the Sex Scene Championship page at Scorching Book Reviews.
Round Thirteen pits Holley Trent against Jeffe Kennedy.
Snippet 1: a searing M/F/M double-penetration scene shows the most fundamental of threeways. Love and trust? Extra bonus points.
Snippet 2: M/F bondage, an experienced and pushy male sub, and a new Domme just learning her power.
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Round Fourteen engages Jess Dee against Kelly Jamieson.
Snippet 1: M/F mutual masturbation as a worthy act in itself, not mere foreplay.
Snippet 2: a M/M/F menage with a lot of emotion amid the physical acts, and where the guys are not just focused on the woman.
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And now for the ranty portion of today’s broadcast.
I use many benchmarks to rate erotic romance publishers to read/write for.
One big factor is their insistence upon (or lack thereof) M/F/M stories where the males may *only* interact with the female partner, and never with each other. That’s fine if the characters decree it so – I may be going there with a story of my own later. But when it becomes a publisher’s firm guideline, as if somehow avoiding all that ‘creepy gay stuff’ that their sheltered het readers can’t stand?
I call bullshit. I find it a cowardly cop-out, and a dismissal of the fluidity of well-depicted bisexual relationships. I wonder how many of those staunchly ‘heterosexual only’ readers are secretly imagining the guys on the page getting closer to each other. It also reflects badly on the female character in the middle: is she so needy that she has to be the center of attention *all the time*? By extrapolation, does that describe her most passionate readers, as well?
Let everyone play, I say.
It’s the same reason I tend to cringe away from M/M publishers, writers, and readers who make their female characters into total bitches, or who won’t allow anyone but a side character to have a current, on-page M/F relationship. I understand building a safe zone for M/M publishing, since the het romance crowd has been so virulently anti-gay over the years. But fiction can be as messy as real life, and some relationships are not as harshly defined.
I treasure publishers, writers, and readers who honestly understand that.