Making Love - From Whose Point of View?

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This has always intrigued me. When I reach a love scene, I always note whose point of view is telling me about it. If the story is in first person, then the viewpoint is from the woman (unless I'm reading a homo-erotic story, which doesn't give me a choice.)

Otherwise, in most cases, I get to vicariously live every lick and tickle from the woman's POV.

So I went back and checked to see how I wrote these scenes, and discovered that I'm about half and half - sometimes in the same book!

For instance, in HEARTFAST, depending on the scene, sometimes you get the hero's version, and at other times, the heroine's description. The same goes for X-TROLLER.

 

But I do have some books where the POV of lovemaking is strictly one-sided throughout. HEALER OF THE HEART, HIS LAST REQUEST, THE GIFTED, and  SANDEFLAY are told strictly from the man's viewpoint. While the LORD OF THUNDER series, FIRELIGHT, DEEP, and CAPTIVE SURRENDER are revealed from the heroine's POV. In fact, when I did a little calculating, I realized I've written about half and half.

 

Which makes me wonder - do you prefer to read a great sex scene as the man, or the woman? Comment below, and you could WIN!

 

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