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X. Smut Thesaurus

Reactions in smut scene:
•shudders
•quivers
•jolts
•lurches
•pants
•bites back a moan
•breath hitches
•knees buckling
•going limp
•strangled noise
•sweat
•eyes roll back
•is stunned

Adverbs in smut scene:
•shakily
•heatedly
•incoherently
•roughly
•raggedly
•headily
•deeply
•breathily
•dangerously
•languidly
•sensually

Alternatives to 'said' in smut scene:
•purred
•cooed
•rasped
•begged
•husked
•keened
•choked
•pleaded
•teased

Actions in smut scene:
•licking
•biting
•nipping
•pressing for-heads togheter
•pinning their wrists
•caress
•ruck a shirt up
•hike a skirt up
•rake nails across skin/through hair
•knee between thighs
•grasping chin, tilting up/down
•tugging on earlobe/lip
•push hair back/card trough it
•hair pulling
•hip grinding, rutting, thrusting

Kissing in smut scene:
•pausing before lips touch, breath
•flicking tongue
•taste each other

Actions during intercourse:
•sinking in/down onto
•pulling hips down hard
•buried in a person
•snapping/slamming/pounding hips

Actions during climax:
•dissolve into pleasure
•electricity
•explosions
•shockwaves
•rippling
•trails of fire
•a spring coiling trough and then being released
•static
•shattering
•splintering
•pulsing

Aroused feelings in smut scene:
•feeling hazy
•drunk
•intoxicated
•heady
•fuzzy
•dizzy
•dazed
•breathless
•blood buzzing/roaring in ears
•drowning in pleasure
•teeming
•ecstasy

Words to use in smut scene:
•dark
•sinful
•carnal
•lithe
•lissom
•supine
•wanton
•animalistic
•unadulterated
•lust
•want
•need
•frantic
•frenetic
•heat
•adrenaline
•intense
•strip
•sinuous