Lady, EVOLVED 
thinking about the role of moments of joy in porn and what the literary equivalent might be
almost everybody who writes porn is very bad at it and of the good porn i have read it did not involve a similar device that i can recall
@Lady i don’t really get what you mean by this post
@aescling in acted porn, this is going to sound a bit obvious but assuming there isn't a compelling kink reason otherwise, the viewer generally probably wants to know (at least some viewers) that the people involved are like, actually having fun. little moments of joy or playfulness in between the heavy sex scenes can pull a lot of weight in making the sex actually seem appealing and attractive as opposed to just like, ew why am i watching these randos shag
this is the device i’m talking about that i don’t see deployed much in written porn
@aescling the thing is that these moments i think are arguably threatening to the fourth wall; they work because you know that these are two actors getting paid to have sex and you as a viewer naturally want to dismantle the professionalism a bit (because it’s [probably] not as hot) and seeing them a little more joyful or casual and not necessarily playing their role with 100% seriousness helps to break that ice
in literature, generally speaking, that kind if self-aware contesting of the medium is still very much not in vogue; everything gets played extremely straight
@alyssa @aescling usually instead what (bad) authors do is try to break up the scene with sincerity, like characters looking each other deeply in the eyes and saying how beautiful they are or how much they love each other, and i think this is almost always a terrible choice imo, it’s just alternating between one kind of intensity and another
@Lady @aescling that makes sense. in porn comics (both japanese H doujinshi and anglophone online stuff, being the stuff i'm most familiar with), overt playfulness that makes clear that the creators are having fun with it seems to be pretty common, but not as a pacing mechanism (usually it's reserved for the beginning or end of a comic, or semi-out-of-band like in the text accompanying posting individual pages for online comics).
i think some of my fav artists do often bring in those moments of joy and fun; i'd have to go back and reread to see if they're using it as a pacing device, tho.
@alyssa @aescling maybe a bit of both? i think with writing it would be less person-oriented and more just like “hey. this is a fun scene, it’s supposed to be fun, i’m having fun with it.”
and not to say writers don’t have fun with their sexy scenes, but i never see it used specifically as a pacing device to break up the intensity, and that kind of pacing is something i do think is important in written smut