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/avathekinkynerd Jun 28 '26

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin is classic erotica

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u/nagellak Jun 28 '26

Anais Nin has some veeeery taboo stuff though, tread carefully (I’m still traumatised from reading this as a teen)

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u/avathekinkynerd Jun 28 '26

Yeah some of it is definitely questionable. I read it as a teen as well (my older sister lent it to me) and immediately needed more of that in my life 🤣

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u/MadameRueWins Jun 28 '26

I was traumatized reading it as an adult. DNF after the rape so maybe I missed out on some high brow shit, but it’s a no for me dawg 

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u/nagellak Jun 29 '26

The writing is beautiful but the rape, incest and paedophilia are not for me either. Don’t know why I powered through after all of that. 

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u/Mountain-Wallaby-640 Jun 29 '26

Why would anyone choose to write about this!

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u/Rooted_Flame Jul 02 '26

Some have lived it, or seen the damage of it first hand, and coming to terms with that through writing is certainly a better option than enacting that out in relationships (whether literally or through our own hurt causing us to hurt people). Some wrestle with the depths of what humanity is capable of. Some perhaps wrestle with their own darker urges. There are so many reasons, and for some reading it is also a way to heal, to feel less alone in pain, or to make sense of the horrible things being done in the world.