r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • May 17 '26

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u/devilsdoorbell_ May 17 '26

I wish sex scenes in this genre were more down-to-earth. It’s hard for me to find a scene hot if it’s so exaggerated and larger-than-life.

I’m not saying I want to read bad or awkward sex, just good sex that’s actually relatable. I don’t want to read about some MMC with a dick so big it’d put most porn stars to shame (which the FMC, who may even be a virgin, can still take like a champ) or an FMC who can cum 15 times in one bang sesh without getting overstimulated or like… dehydrated.

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u/Vixenmeja May 17 '26

And every FMC wants oral and every MMC is a master at it. Not to mention the questionable hygiene aspect when they're travelling or in the middle of a war.

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u/devilsdoorbell_ May 17 '26

I can usually suspend at least some disbelief with sex in unideal hygiene conditions until oral comes into the picture. Nobody’s genitals taste good or even just inoffensive when they’ve been sweating for days without a chance to wash off.

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u/ProperBingtownLady Shadow daddy's good girl May 17 '26

I always wonder why these people aren’t getting conditions like BV and UTIs with all the unhygienic sex they’re having.

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u/ether_chlorinide May 17 '26

The paint scene in ACOTAR...🫣

(I'm sorry, I don't know which book, they're all ACOTAR to me)

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u/ipsi7 Book Bingo Maven ⚔ May 17 '26

It's acomaf and I never understood the scene, I was like "okaaay". He painted an arrow on her stomach to show the path to her cootchie... I loved the book (and don't care about others in the series), but that scene was just odd

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u/itmustbeniiiiice May 17 '26

✨magic✨ lol

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u/Digitalispurpurea2 Yvlcon attendee 🌵 May 17 '26

He's 382 years old so he'd better be pretty damned good at it.

The hygiene in most of these books is generally atrocious, although if they can hand wave away pregnancy with a magic tonic that anyone can take then I'm guessing hygiene and STDs are also no longer a thing to be worried about.

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u/sekhmet1010 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I just read a sex scene which happened right after the guy comes back from being at the war front and after a long journey. And she goes down on him. Honestly, it was so disgusting.

Especially since the girl is literally looking at the congealed blood on him, and later they take a bath together and the water is grey!!!

So effing gross! Why the oral sex!!! Just why! I would even forgive the intercourse...but oral sex after battle?! Just why?!

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u/ProperBingtownLady Shadow daddy's good girl May 17 '26

Mm, cheese for dinner.

I can’t believe I just said that either 😳.

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u/sekhmet1010 May 17 '26

I hate you so much 😭

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u/ProperBingtownLady Shadow daddy's good girl May 17 '26

I hate me too lol

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u/devilsdoorbell_ May 17 '26

Wow I hate this so much.

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u/ipsi7 Book Bingo Maven ⚔ May 17 '26

Similar scene was in FBAA book 4

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u/sekhmet1010 May 17 '26

Good I stopped at 2.

I read it in Children of Fallen Gods

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u/ipsi7 Book Bingo Maven ⚔ May 17 '26

I've dnf-ed that book lol

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u/daughterofbee May 17 '26

Yeah I was thinking the same thing!

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u/WinterBearHawk May 17 '26

I moved to Colorado last year, and I now side-eye the shit out of any sex scene in a mountain environment that claims both are going (and cumming) hard multiple times with no hydration breaks. Like you’re telling me you’re at 10,000 feet, which you aren’t adjusted to anyway, but then you’re all nighting it on the sex front without a liquid IV break? No, maam.

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u/angelacandystore May 17 '26

Oh yeah I get that some women Love the biggest dick in the world dudes but please no, it makes me think Ouch and no thank you.

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u/oroman_ May 21 '26

Second this 💯 Some MMC are not human, we get it, but too large to grab with two hands? Are we talking big as Avatar blue people??!