Fanfiction themes that creep you out.

[Hiro Protagonest]

The way that, once something is tagged for sex scenes, it instantly devalues the readership into drooling lustbots. I mean, chances are excellent that your typical thriller will contain at least one sex scene, but the audience is still in it for the convoluted terror plots in the end. No idea why this happens, but boy does it ever. And qualifying the sex as non-consensual in no way helps.

Lemon fanfic just makes me grit my teeth in disgust, because there's a very good chance nowhere did the author/host indicate what it was before I started reading. I mean damn if I want porn I'll just go find porn. I don't need to read borderline (and often overt) rape fantasies of fictional characters in what are typically thought of as shonen comics series.

Quite a conundrum.

Call me innocent, but I'm really just down for stories that can deal with themes other than sex. I've hit my saturation point with using sex to sell stuff/entice views.

Sex can be used to establish personality of the characters and strengthen themes. My favorite piece of fiction is Katawa Shoujo, Lilly's story. I can see how it would often be used poorly in fanfic, and there's a lack of proper distinguishing between "stories that don't pull punches" and "this is porn". Katawa Shoujo manages to do sex scenes while keeping things fairly minimal, though definitely still at mature levels.