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In fiction, how do you tell what is sex and what is smut? Like whats tasteful and what is basically porn? Can you give some examples?

Good question anon! The two most common terms in fanfiction when referring to the story with a explicit sex scene are smut and lemon. A lemon has an explicit sex scene, but there's a story that led up to the moment. Smut has no plot and it just contains sex. Now, the quality of the writing matters the most rather than which story fits out of the two. A lemon can be terrible if the plot isn't convincing or just dumb. For example, if the plot is about someone has a "problem" because the person cannot stop fantasizing the love interest and wants the person's love interest to screw them as fast as possible. The plot would have no build up and the characters are acting occ or the sex scene is too cheesy or cringy.

Putting this under cut because I will provide nsfw link as well describing smut and lemon explicitly.

Hopefully the answers that I provided helps you! I admit that I’m not the best for answering this considering that I don’t have much experience on writing smut/ lemon, but I’m decent on telling the difference between a good smut and a bad one.

Since I do not have much writing experience in terms of fiction in general, I provide a link if you want to know how to write a smut/lemon if that is your goal.

http://rpedia.tumblr.com/post/25585506499This is an indepth post about writing for any pairing and gender. It provided a blunt and complete explanation on the difference between tasteful sex and poorly written sex.

A tasteful smut/lemon has good foreplay that leads the readers hot and bothered, teasing them for the anticipation of their favorite pairing having sex. The story is written with a reasonable descriptions of sensual touches that builds up the sexual tension between 2 characters. The scene contains not too much moans, grunts, and the characters doesn't have orgasm with every touch by their lover or every 3 minutes. The word choice for genitals aren't too technical with medical terms like penis, vagina, or anus. There's no cringy word choice such as cum dumpster, whore-titties (which btw it's degrading to women), mound of venus, wand, thick manhood, shiny rod, etc. You can point out more bad examples that you remember from reading lemons and smut.

Some examples of well written smut/lemon from Yugioh: Yes all of them are my otp and I will use my otp as examples because I love some good smut for this pairing. xD If it's your notp, well I can point out other pairings with decent smut/lemon.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12111201/1/A-Taste-of-Apple

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5496660/1/Mistletoe

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It’s a quiet night at tumblr isn’t it? That’s good because I’m going to use explicit language and making references about smut and lemon to answer an anon question!