The direction in porn for decades has been to focus on action, screw the emotions. Show a nice body and they fap away. But this simplistic approach ignores fundamentals. Namely, the pair-bonding and social interaction that activates the sexual nervous system.
Many successful porn companies have incorporated interviews and behind-the-scenes material, showing the girl in a casual setting acting naughty, like drinking a vial of semen in a public restaurant.
This blog entry is a continuation on how to write hot hentai scenes.
When you feel connected to the girl, all the sexy things she does by herself, with you, or others, will also stimulate you. It’s why cheating fiction is popular. The mechanics of pair-bonding make cheating content extra stimulating.
Good erotica stimulates not just your groin area – that’s barbaric. You also want to evocate emotionally and psychologically, activate larger neural networks in the brain. Certain areas of your nervous system are simply slow to heat up. Some erogenous zones are barely sensitive to touch, until they are. Because of this, most men and women are largely unaware of the heights of pleasure their bodies are capable of, settling for quick faps and quickie fucks, instead of lying down and relaxing for thoroughly satisfying sexual experiences, which require more effort.
I’ve personally edited every single review on this website since 2017, and I noticed a pattern: Our writers described scenes that took a long time to unlock as satisfying. Not always, if the game was terrible in other ways, but generally speaking, our male and female writers have both found that sexual content needs build-up. Even if the scenes are animated and beautiful, without build-up and dialog and an immersive world where the action takes place, scenes lacking these are throwaway.
Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning is one example of a stellar porn experience, where the scenes take their sweet time before you reach them. Our reviewer said the first scene was after four hours of play.
Do not be confused by what you see on popular porn sites. While the vast majority of porn depicts brainless fucking, my point stands. We’ve made hundreds of media projects to clients who want simple pictures and animation loops, nothing more. Even our hentai comic commissions, which you’d think are entirely story-focused, a surprising number of clients explicitly requested no dialog be added in them. In these cases, I suspect the clients use the material as visual aide to stimulate their imaginations, adding their own stories to the visuals in their minds. People project into porn their own stories.
And here’s the perfect tangent to the next aspect of this: When the characters have vague and layered motivations, a scene gets much more interesting. You can interpret the sexy situations when the emotional states and intentions of the characters aren’t dry-cut. Again, I’ll use the original Taimanin Asagi OVAs as an example for my next point.
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Masks, camera angles, social pressure, or other obscuring dynamics can hide one’s true emotions, making scenes several levels more interesting. You’re forced to interpret their deepest feelings, which also makes you connect with the characters.
Whatever might Asagi be feeling, all tied up with brutish orcs groping her body, as she’s feverishly licked between her legs, while another sex partner is cumming in her mouth? And while all this is happening, the other orcs are watching, getting aroused, soon all revved up to pound her ninja pussy once it’s their turn. There is a constant cycle of build-up and release in a saucy gangbang.
I’ve watched a lot of group sex videos, and surprisingly often this extremely intense sexual act is just boring. Referencing these feelings with what I see companies do and our clients request, I’ve started seeing, perhaps projecting, the important nuanced rules that make or break scenarios. We are all grasping at the deeper levels, because our understanding as to what’s happening below the surface guides all creative decisions in erotic media creation.
For example, if girls have large tattoos, those are polarizing details that can make an otherwise beautiful girl even sexier, or make her look like a dirty disgusting skank. But why is that?
I’ve read some people rationalize that tattoos on a girl obscure the youthful sleekness of the skin, making her look older and less fertile, even plagued by diseases. Meanwhile, womb tattoos are the hottest shit ever. A woman choosing to get a meticulous painting on her skin is also a sign of rebellion in civilized cultures that venerate a woman’s purity and her eventual motherhood. Tattoos are cool if the art is good. They are enticing if she’s an otherwise well-rounded person, and her rebellious individuality is well-integrated. In contrast, if she’s just a feminazi nutjob fucking around, fewer men find that hot.
A girl who doesn’t understand the value of sexual self-restraint isn’t hot, she’s just foolish, but if she’s doing the nasty while maintaining a shred of virtue, we get the vast majority of Japanese hentai media. Non-con content achieves this tapping of both logics; The girl maintains her virtue while fucked silly. She thus remains a desirable personality, even while pumped full of cum by monsters and men. You never want to completely abandon civilization.
Much of eroticism is psychological. Your largest sexual organ is your brain. Hence why building anticipation of future sexual adventures is so important, and why long marriages get stale. The fundamentals of how our nervous system works cannot be forgotten, if we wish to be stimulating company for each other. If we forget the fundamentals, the ample supply of sexual opportunities at our disposal just becomes mundane. Build anticipation! Embrace a little anarchy!
Pornography can be art. And true art taps into the deeper personal experiences of people. Understanding yourself and the anatomy of your own desires can be very informative, leading to universally inspiring media projects. Most important is discovering a logic and making consistent, cohesive decisions around it that build on locked-in parameters.
Did you catch that? There are multiple logics, but in order to produce uniquely satisfying erotic experiences while exploring vistas of possibilities, there are universalities between the logics that must be identified. Even extremely different scenarios, like consensual sex and non-consensual sex, be they roleplayed or fictional situations, have similarities in the underlying logic of what makes them stimulating emotionally and psychologically. Identifying the universalities should be your focus!
The human experience is not so fractured that you can do whatever and expect results. Because another person will be able to do what you did even better. Subjectivity and the relativity that comes with that only goes so far in capturing an audience. When you start grasping at a logic, there are always techniques to execute it better, and on levels of the highest excellence, the universalities emerge like revelation. Dig deep enough into any field, be it mathematics, quantum physics, philosophy, art, sociology, architecture, and even porn, and God emerges.
Final point, let’s get concrete. Below are my 10 sex scene design questions that I ask whenever writing a scene. These questions assist in getting a sense of the social power dynamics at play, they help at understanding your characters.
1) Who initiates the encounter?
2) How does sex get included in the conversation?
3) What is the primary motivation of the person who initiated?
4) What ulterior motivations do the participants have?
5) Does everything go according to plan?
6) Where is the location specifically?
7) Do the participants have the right to be at the location?
8) How does this sex event progress the plot?
9) What dynamic do the participants have? Do they love or hate each other? Does one have to overcompensate for the other somehow? Do they keep secrets from one another, or share everything? Is one more powerful?
10) Does the event conclude to the satisfaction of all participants?
