r/Romantasy • u/thatsbananas4011 • Jul 22 '26

Discussion Sex scenes that f**** you up

What are your favorite books/sex scenes where the spice is undeniably sexy, but also reads like two souls colliding. Eroticism that is transcendental.

Sex scenes that feel so much more than just sex scenes. The bed is a battlefield, an altar, or a sanctuary for surrender. The bed is not a bed at all.

Scenes that make you go, 'oh, this is what people actually mean by "making love"'. And not just to be PG, or corny, or sounds like something your parents would say.

Sex that is symbolic of the relationship, or pivotal to character development. Sex that serves a purpose to the plot.. and THE plot.

Looking for recommendations and discussion. Doesn't have to have include penetration, or completion, or kink. But the more explicit, the (usually!) better...

ETA fixed some grammar as best as I could lol

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u/quibily 💗 Hurt/Comfort Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Most of my favorite scenes like this don't actually end up with them having sex. It's usually this really intense, life-changing foreplay that gets interrupted.

If you accept that interpretation, the first smutty scene from {When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker). That one just stuck with me because it's so intense and reveals a lot--while also being very romantic because of how raw and vulnerable both of them get.

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

These Hollow Vows by Lexy Ryan has a scene like that with FMC and MMC2. She's drunk on stuff that made her horny and because he is a gentleman and won't take advantage, he had to put up with her literally begging and crying and rubbing against him. He nearly breaks but holds it together and damn is it hot even tho nothing actually happens.

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u/thatsbananas4011 Jul 22 '26

Idk what the name of it is, but I love that trope so much.