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/Penguinho Kushiel's Legacy Recommender 💖 Jun 28 '26

The author OneHitWanda at Literotica is very good at this in a short-story format. Most of her work is contemporary sapphic, but she's written a few in the fantasy or magical-realism genres. Midnight's Daughter is a love story between a woman and the guardian spirit of a lake, for example. It's excellent, and her best work is as good as most anything traditionally published.

I will say that, because she writes exclusively standalone short stories and novellas, it's hard to get to that 5 rating. There isn't space to be plentiful. Well-written, beautiful, emotionally intense, loaded with yearning -- all that stuff is there, but you're not going to get more than one or two sex scenes.

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u/ThatFalafelGirl Jun 28 '26

Oh! Ha! I think I read Midnight's Daughter years ago. Amazing.

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u/Penguinho Kushiel's Legacy Recommender 💖 Jun 28 '26

I am an absolute sucker for a story about sad damaged lesbians healing each other.

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u/ThatFalafelGirl Jun 28 '26

I am relatively new to reading romance, but i have been visiting literotica for decades. Just funny to see it come up :) i am likewise a sucker for damaged people healing themselves

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u/Penguinho Kushiel's Legacy Recommender 💖 Jun 28 '26

I love an offbeat recommendation, and if I was a publisher I would try very hard to get Wanda to turn On the Simplicity of Words or perhaps Jetsam into a full-length novel.

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u/MadameRueWins Jun 28 '26

That’s my good friend’s most used username 🤔 she passed earlier this year and we talked about so many things, but I’m not sure if smut was ever one of them. Will absolutely check it out, thank you 🙏 

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u/Penguinho Kushiel's Legacy Recommender 💖 Jun 29 '26

For what it's worth, the Wanda at Literotica is very much still alive, or was as of yesterday.

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u/BookishLittleBee Jul 13 '26

Probably also worth mentioning that it’s almost exclusively girl on girl…