there has to be fic with this trope...

[ratcreature]

I'm reading quite a bit of Charles/Erik right now, and a number of those feature some variation of telepathic sex.

And it occurred to me that of course direct brain stimulation of the reward system is one of the most addictive things (like those experiments on the unfortunate rats who press brain stimulation levers until they die because they like that better than eating and drinking), and of course some people think even regular sex can become an addiction. So obviously sex with Charles could be addictive, especially if he couldn't control what he does with his brain fully during sex and somehow instinctively tries to pleasure his partner telepathically.

Also this offers fabulous opportunities for angst if Charles is worried about this. According to the wikipedia page on this these rat experiments were first done in the early 1950s, so assuming Charles would be interested in neuroscience to understand his mutation, he would know about these experiments by the time the movie takes place, and could worry. Actually if anyone wanted to write virgin!Charles, you could argue that it is possible he read about these experiments before he ever became sexually active and developed a worried hang-up over whether or not he'd be safe for his partners.

Surely there has to be angsty fic that explores telepathic sex as highly addictive?

Comments

[giandujakiss]

The same thing occurred to me - not as angsty story necessarily, but whether sex would be addictive in a bad way - especially in the stories where Charles says he can/does directly stimulate pleasure.

[ratcreature]

Yes, it is such an obvious direction to go with brain stimulation! I'm surprised that this isn't more popular. I mean, can't recall any story going there, but surely it must have been done?

[giandujakiss]

Yes, it was - I don't remember which story, though. I know it was mentioned in the Hellfire AU but there was another story where Charles actually did it.

To clarify - I mean, the direct stimulation has been done. I haven't seen it be angsty/addictive.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I've seen brain stimulation too, but not the addiction direction. Which is really astonishing.

[ilyena_sylph]

I read a couple of stories like that in X-Fandom probably 12 years ago, but they were on CFAN and I can't for the life of me remember any of the details other than the very basics...

Though I don't think it was Charles, I think it was Jean...

[ratcreature]

I can't remember coming across this with Jean/Scott either, but then with that pairing I read more gen-type stories where the pairing or romance is more a subplot to the adventure, and those would be less likely to cater to angsty porn tropes.

[bluemeridian]

I can't say that I've seen it yet either. Huh.

[ratcreature]

Huh, indeed. The more I think about it the more astonishing (and appalling!) it seems that these vast angsty and porny possibilities (normally a winning combination in fandom popularity) apparently remain largely unexplored!

[aethel]

I have never encountered this trope in fanfic, but I now desperately want to read it as long as the solution to Erik's addiction is to have regular sex. It's a tough job, but Charles is willing to do it.

[ratcreature]

It is baffling that it is not a popular trope already, it's so obvious with telepath sex.

I want it desperately too (as long as there is sex and also angsting about the sex *g*). I have put this as a prompt on a kink meme on LJ (the one not currently with a mod kerfuffle), and now hope someone will write it.