Yes. I feel like the porn I write is emotionally driven enough that there doesn't need to be the lead-up for it to be emotionally satisfying, which I think might be why there's so much porn in so many things I write.
Part of my point with this post is that the sex is not the narrative climax at all; it is in fact its own arc, either occurring after the plot arc or in fact during the plot arc, but with a separate climax. For instance, in friends-to-lovers the climax is a mutual declaration of feelings, which usually occurs before the sex, which makes the 30% of sex that fails another narrative arc (because it's too long and has too much shape to simply be the denouement). In enemies-in-prison, the narrative climax is getting out of prison/escape/defeating the bad guy, but the sex has no part in the "rising action" because it did nothing to escalate the plot and everything to escalate their relationship, thus making their relationship a second narrative arc within the plot arc of their capture.
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Part of my point with this post is that the sex is not the narrative climax at all; it is in fact its own arc, either occurring after the plot arc or in fact during the plot arc, but with a separate climax. For instance, in friends-to-lovers the climax is a mutual declaration of feelings, which usually occurs before the sex, which makes the 30% of sex that fails another narrative arc (because it's too long and has too much shape to simply be the denouement). In enemies-in-prison, the narrative climax is getting out of prison/escape/defeating the bad guy, but the sex has no part in the "rising action" because it did nothing to escalate the plot and everything to escalate their relationship, thus making their relationship a second narrative arc within the plot arc of their capture.
Now I go to look at your porn post!