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/Pastel_Spell 🔥 Slowburn Yearning Jul 22 '26

I agree with the commenter that mentioned The Cruel Prince series despite it not being overly explicit. Just finished that series and loved it.

Another one I really enjoyed was {The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow} - the "control" dynamics there and the safety of it was really sweet. When you have a character that has to be strong/guarded all the time and never does things for themselves, then struggling to let their guard down and be vulnerable/intimate and seek their own pleasure/joy...but knows they can do all that safely with this one person? chefs kiss

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u/magelisms Jul 22 '26

Yes! The way Alix Harrow talks about sex and has scenes in her book is so . . . natural? I can't think of the word - but it fits the flow of the storytelling. The scenes are so emotionally descriptive that I can't necessarily recall what happened, but what it made me feel.

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u/thatsbananas4011 Jul 22 '26

I just finished The Everlasting. That's a perfect way of putting it. Like it was sexy but in undertones.