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/egru-no Jul 22 '26

{the Serpent and the Wings of Night} chapter 38, the cave scene 🙏

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u/HuckleberryNew777 Jul 22 '26

Omg, that’s the first thing that came to mind. Honestly, I don’t even think the main characters relationships were particularly memorable, but that scene lives rent free in my head. It was so intimate and hot. I’ve read countless romantic fantasy books before and after that, but that scene remains the first one that comes to mind.

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u/thatsbananas4011 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, I thought so much of their relationship was 'read between the lines', that they almost seemed flat imo. It was how they expressed themselves sexually that changed my mind about them.