Sunday, December 4, 2011

Hot Male Monday - Common Denominator for Sexual Tension

As Eliza March, I'm expected to describe all the elements of romance and erotic scenes. Sometimes I study photos and analyze what it is about them that strikes me first. In these, I'm evaluating them to figure out why the guys seem so much hotter than their partner (even in the M/m, the guy on the bottom just isn't as into it as the guy on top) and besides the obvious...I like guys better, there are the subtleties of body language at play here.  
Describing the tension... He's way ahead of her...
What's the common element in all these photos that denotes sexual tension?
After studying many pictures, I found something in these.
I'm going with the  tension in the guys' arms.
He's ready...
Sure he's lifting but the sexual tension that the scene portrays is reflected in his jaw first, then in the taught rippling of his shoulders and back, and finally with the tension in his forearm and wrist.
Dominating...

Coercing...

The guys are all tense and their partners don't seem quite ready. Anybody notice that?  So what does this matter to me? I choreograph these scenes with words. It's important to have the tension building simultaneously in fiction ... It's my job to get it right. If you want reality, you wouldn't bother reading this stuff.

Getting there...


And one of my all time favorites...probably because I like her participation in the tension...her white knuckled grip on that belt.


3 comments:

  1. Awesome. Never thought about the tension in both. Love the white knuckles on the girl, too. This is why your stuff rocks.

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  2. Well thank you for the compliment. When I Started writing description studying photos helped.

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  3. For me it's the woman's total grabby nature that does it. She wants him and there's no two ways about it. Look at all those pictures again. (well, except for the two men) in every single one, even though a body maybe turned there's some part of the gal that's possessive, whether it's the legs, the mouth (OMG, that shower pic!) there's definitely a female dominate vibe to them. That's to me the hottest part of those pictures, heck with the strong burly guy, how much the woman accepts him is what does the trick for me.

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