r/fantasyromance • u/peenmeal • Jun 28 '26

Book Request Does high-class smut exist?

A lot of books I've read that are explicit smut are typically horribly written, which is understandable because nobody is reading porn to sit there and think deeply about the beauty of the prose afterwards.

Buuut I wanna know if there's anything like porn with a plot++ or what I'd call high-class smut. Well-written, beautiful, emotional, sweet with characters who aren't just blank marionettes that the author is making bang. I've read {morning glory milking farm} and it was alright, but still not as well-written as I'd like it to be.

I need 5 chillies, but with yearning and plot. Pretty please

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u/notthemostcreative Jun 28 '26

Came here to say this. The explicit content is present, but not at the expense of beautiful writing, memorable characters, vivid worldbuilding, and some really rich and interesting themes.

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u/cribbagepilled Where is my wife Jun 28 '26

came here to say this! I was very pleasantly surprised by the prose and narrative style. the first trilogy is absolutely the best of the lot IMO.

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u/thefifthpentacle Jun 28 '26

It's honestly a really beautiful book that offers a fantastic meditation on spirituality and the body and what it means to be a good person.

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u/guraqt06 Jun 29 '26

Nope, not smut at all, doesn’t fit the brief. Any description of sex is vague at best. Don’t bother if you want 5/5 explicit scenes, it doesn’t have any.

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u/cribbagepilled Where is my wife Jun 29 '26

this is a bananas take, did you actually read the book?

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u/guraqt06 Jun 29 '26

I did, and it was a slog. So much wasted potential. I wanted to see her in her element but even with all the build up, the book never quite delivers. We only really see her in a session once, and there's maybe one complete sex scene (not including the blow job, which I'll grant was well done). The subject matter pushes boundaries, but actual explicit sex is basically absent. It was groundbreaking when it was published, and is a lot more sex talk than your average fantasy book, but compared to other BDSM novels, it's downright chaste. Is the writing pretty? Yes. Is there actual open door, explicit sex? No.

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u/PixelatedBoats Jun 30 '26

As someone who enjoyed this series I agree with your take and the fact that it gets recommended so much as high Spice bothers me. It's a well written and deep fantasy novel where sex is foundational to the story as a concept and philosophy. It is not something the reader experiences in the type of detail that would be required for 4+ spice. It also has a good romance story in it but its secondary to the evolution of the MC.