Fanfiction and anal sex and lubrication: To Spell or Not to Spell

[themostepotente]

That is the question, folks!

When writing anal scenes (and no, this is NOT limited to male/male slash), do you prefer a nice lubrication spell, or does your preference run with something more creative in the way of commercial lubricants?

What's the strangest item you've used as a substitute for a lubricant?

Have you ever written fics with lubricated condoms?

Have you ever written fics with no lubrication whatsoever in say a non-con scenario?

Finally, anything else you'd like to add on the topic?

Let's hear what you have to say!

--P

Comments

[jain]

Wow, I'd never realized how opposed some people are to lubrication spells. Admittedly, I've read some awful sex scenes that use them, but then, I've also read awful sex scenes that use commercial lubricants.

In my own writing, I mostly use unspecified lotions, kept in jars or bottles (tubes of lubricant don't seem appropriate to the wizarding world). I've only used lubrication charms in one story that I can remember, and mentioned them without using them in another, but I'm open to the possibility that I might use them again; it all depends on the situation.

I think that boys in a dormitory, for instance, would prefer to use some method of lubrication that wouldn't be stored with the rest of their belongings, where it might be discovered and result in a lot of teasing. And, of course, lubrication spells come in handy when the characters are in a hurry...or find themselves without lube...or are trying to conceal the fact that the person they're reluctantly raping in front of an audience of Death Eaters has had any form of preparation.

As to the other questions, I'm so vanilla I scare myself: I've never written a substitute for lubricant; I don't use condoms in HP fic; and anytime there's anal penetration in my fics, there's lube.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

As to the other questions, I'm so vanilla I scare myself: I've never written a substitute for lubricant; I don't use condoms in HP fic; and anytime there's anal penetration in my fics, there's lube.

Vanilla, eh? Could I maybe chocolate you up? *grins*