“The Almost Sex Scene”
I absolutely love that scene in the movie Elizabethtown where Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom almost kiss, and not just because it has Orlando Bloom in it. It’s also because the tension and anticipation leading up to the almost-kiss is really, really hot.
Instead of almost-kiss scenes in my newest paranormal erotic romance novella, I have a few almost-sex scenes. To me, they’re just as hawt if not more so than a full out sex scene. And it’s all about the foreplay, the teasing, the building of excitement.