What constitutes as a sex scene that isn't considered clop and is able to maintain a T rating? What are ways to make a sex scene while avoiding the M rating?

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The two most common ways I can think of are to "Fade to Black," which is kinda self-explanatory, or allude to the sex via having another character overhear it or something, without giving any graphic details.

6706891 well in the case of my stories I hint that characters are going to have sex and usually hoop out either to end the chapter or into a different scene before anything occurs.

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Sex

The sex tag, when used with a teen rating, is used as a warning that the story contains lightly-charged sexual situations, innuendo, or vaguely implied (but not described!) sexual acts. Some light kissing is fine, light touching generally is too, but if things get heavily charged, you need to move to the mature tag.

"And then they had went into a room, and spent the night together. Wink, wink."

So yeah, that's pretty much the best you can do with a Teen rating. But you'll probably still need the Sex tag on it.

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If there's a purpose in the act with a focus on the characters, not on the stimulation it brings to the reader. Clop is basically enacting evil by putting pornography into words. All it does is stimulate the reader. Now, you could write sex scenes to further the character's development, and not provide intricate details about how much they dripped, or the sounds they made, or the groans and pants that escape their mouths. That's only to excite the reader.

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Clop is basically enacting evil by putting pornography into words.

Somebody has issues.

Also, remember that the question was how to make a sex scene in a Teen rating, not what the difference between a romantic sex scene and a clopperific sex scene is.

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The rules are pretty common sense: Don't describe genitalia, uglies touching, any sensory description that can be traced back to the naughty bits whatsoever. Implying such business occurred is fine.

Simply allude to it. You can lay on the fact that it's going to happen or is going on pretty heavily and as long long as you don't go into the nitty gritty details the teen rating is maintained. I've had to allude to sex several times in terms rated stories. I typically just tell the before and after. I never really felt that showing the actual act contributed much to the stories. I had one story where the two main characters had sex constantly, but never once did I actually detail anything.

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I'm sure it's possible make a sex scene to further character development and stimulate the reader (without being explicit) at the same time.

I just imply that it's going to happen and change the scene or end the chapter. Then, I sometimes have the characters comment on how fun they had the previous night

6706935 Right, what I think Brady is trying to say is that clop is very explicit and usually isn't invested in developing the character but rather to serving as... "Stimulation" material.

In my stories that use sex, it is often between a married couple and is designed to show that they have an intimate and trusting relationship. Needless to say none of those stories were clop or explicit.

Maybe not explicitly describing the sexual actions, but more the character's mindsets? So for instance say a married couple are getting intimate, perhaps like occasionally refer to what's going on like him getting on top of her and her wraps hooking around him, but also notice to non-explicit acts like them kissing, holding each other, feeling the heat, and their mindsets of being infatuated with the other.

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For T rating clop fics, maybe mention sex like ‘they had sex’ or something like that. Mention there is sex but don’t describe it.

Another thing I recommend is to maybe show light nudity/sex OR soft porn. More so, describe it in a soft manner, not to deep into porn, not to light.

6706891 Sometimes, you just need to bee creative with your references.
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Light. Blessed light. The warmth spread through her body, flooding every cell and making her chloroplasts swell with the newfound energy that could find no release. Reflexes built into her stoma forced proton pumping through the guard cells, opening them wide to allow carbon dioxide to flow in even while her roots dug microscopically deeper into the rich soil, drinking the fresh water that had just been poured in. Carbon dioxide and water shifted under the power of her kind, the energy of life itself as she sundered molecular bonds with ease and allowed the sweet taste of glucose to enter where she had never dared.

Time passed, the warmth shifted, and more complex sugars were forced into the delicate petals of her reproductive organs. An unexplainable glee coursed from her roots to leaf tips as the flower opened, glistening in the light and awaiting fertilization. This was what she had been created for. Not only to live, but to reproduce. To spread her kind across the fertile land. Her blossom opened even wider, begging for the touch of the one who could make that impossible dream a reality. Swollen with nectar, she ached for release, nearly in physical pain as she sensed the passage of what she sought always out of reach. If she could have reached out and grabbed them, or even called out to the creatures with more than the simple aromatic sugars she released on the breeze. Once she could have, back when she was a pony, but that was beyond her now.

Then… there was the anticipated touch. Fuzzy and clumsy, the creature stimulated her aching cells with every step and curious poke. Deeper and deeper it penetrated into her reproductive organ, stimulating her nerves until she could do nothing but tremble under its manipulative limbs and tongue. It must have been young with the way it stumbled, not touching where she needed it most, not licking where her nectar was the thickest, an insensitive brute pushing and shoving into her most delicate parts until…

Whether luck or skill guided the creature, it reached right where it needed to be, pressing down and lapping while ignoring the way she trembled under its desired touch....

--From the upcoming story, Twilight Sparkle Learns About Photosynthesis. Those lascivious plants, all waving their delicate bits where anypony can see. They need to at least wear pants.

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Speak more in metaphors, mindsets, troubles and reliefs. Be vague in your physical descriptions. Mention less penetration, and more reactions to said action, clenched hands, curled toes, small moans, that sort of thing. Think of a PG-13 movie with sex, and consider how it's usually shot. Very rarely do you see torso, instead it's more about entwined hands and feet wrapped about bed sheets.

Read some well-rated T stories with the tag and study what they do. As long as it's non-explicit, it'll basically work. Mods can answer this kinda thing too and link examples.

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This.

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They went into the other room and furiously bumped butts.

He used his shelayleigh on her trap door.

Anything alluding but not stating or showing.

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One word bruh...
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Suggestive actions

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Writing sex is kinda like filming horror: it's often more effective not to show the thing that's making everybody scream.

It's always possible to write metaphorically about the sex act itself, but you need a lot of skill to have any hope of succeeding. And even if you do, there's still a good chance that things could go hilariously wrong (c.f. Frank Herbert, "beefswelling.")

Leave out the grinding genetalia and the spurting bodily fluids, and what's left? Emotions. Sensations. Memories. Hopes. All these things can be experienced during sex. Write about them.

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