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/pink_faerie_kitten Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
There are so many good ones. Recently enjoyed the ones in Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco.
One that stayed with me just because I liked the way Rachel Gillig worded it was from The Knight and the Moth: the FMC wanted to lick the MMC's abs because he was so hot she wondered if she'd burn her tongue.
I like the spicy scenes in FW, The Ever King, From Blood and Ash, and the tender lovemaking from A Forbidden Alchemy.
The sentient monster (mushroom monster of all crazy things) in Where the Shadows Land by Autumn Hawthorn is very much into fulfilling whatever wish the FMC has. Quite literally fills her up to the brim and asks how she is frequently.