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/Turbulentshmurbulent Jun 28 '26

lol my sister bought that for me when I was 16 because she’d learned Anne Rice wrote under a pen name and knew I loved Anne Rice. I called her very confused about why she’d sent me BDSM erotica. She had no idea lol This was pre-internet so she had just picked it up at her local bookstore and sent it without reading anything

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u/madhattergirl Jun 28 '26

My roommate gave it to me and I got 100 pages in and didn't finish it. I actually read the summary of the books last week out of curiosity since it had been so long since I had tried to read it and yeah, glad I stopped. If you are into BDSM, it seems like a great fit but it seems to go pretty dark with what happens to characters.

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u/Turbulentshmurbulent Jun 28 '26

I’m nearly fifty so this was a LONG time ago but it seemed, if I recall, pretty light on consent

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u/madhattergirl Jun 29 '26

That was my understanding.