I'm actually really interested in this myself! But I'm a little reluctant to talk about it because, like, a lot of people really enjoy reading and writing smut, but can be embarrassed about it anyway, and I don't want my own weird opinion interfering with someone's fun 😅

There's actually a lot I enjoy about sex in fic - consent and loss of control are obviously big things for me, and also the intimacy, and the aligning of desire. And emotional honesty is an interesting one too, I hadn't thought of it like that! (That's a major appeal of h/c for me too obviously).

But for most of that I don't really need much... detail? The problem I have is that smut itself just doesn't do anything for me, I'm not wired for it. So I tend to be more interested in the lead up and aftermath, and the act itself is typically just boring to me (at best; sometimes it can leave me feeling...left out? 😅) And writing it is a challenge because I'm never quite sure how people will react to it, when I know my own reactions aren't a great metric. It's the opposite of when I write something indulgent to me, and I don't know if anyone else is going to react to it the way I am, but I know exactly what I'm going for myself!