Well, you're adding a goal to your work when you do so---it has more to communicate, and you have to decide how grounded in *consequence* the erotic fantasy you're portraying will be, which has to serve the goals of your work over all https://twitter.com/CrookedCoatTodd/status/1385342880324194307

You can't really get away with writing a story where characters experience realistic consequences for their actions, and then have them fuck in a public fountain on a sunday afternoon like its nbd?

But you can depict a character fantasizing about it, if doing so reveals new information about that character to the reader, or you can re-orient your story so that it becomes about fucking in a fountain without consequences (which turns it into straight erotica)

Or you can let characters deal with the consequences for real if doing so aligns with your story's larger themes, but just know this takes a strong understanding of exactly what you're trying to say in order to pull it off

I also want to add---you gain something very powerful when you decide to eliminate real life consequences from an erotic work. It frees you from having to explain yourself while firing yourself out of a cannon into your erotic imagination

There's nothing more dreadful than a creator who turns to the audience in the middle of masturbating and says "don't worry, after we all come I'll make sure we feel the right amount of shame about it" (see Christian Grey's character arc in 50 Shades)

In Hestia, sex scenes are essential to moving the characters towards the resolution of their arcs, and reveal new information to the reader each time. There will never be a censored version of the story because it doesn't make sense if the sex scenes are taken out.

In Aphrodite's Pavilion, sex doesn't have consequences---sex IS the consequence.