Funny yet serious answer: Feanor and Nerdanel were 100% champs at fucking. Feanor almost certainly made a competitive sport of it (gotta be the best at fucking ever). Nerdanel was possibly more interested in the philosophical/spiritual aspects. Either way, I know in my heart of hearts, that they definitely wrote a slightly unhinged dissertation about it and this is why all their sons are either single or divorced and only one of them ever came up to scratch enough to have a child. Something something that one quote in the Tragedy of Heterosexuality about how the child sees the tragedy of their parents and decides they're going to skip that mess.
I have been thinking about this lately because the premise of the fic I'm currently working on is "do you achieve elf ego death by having sex with more partners (e.g. an orgy/gangbang) or by having sex for a really long time" and ofc if you do, which one is qualitatively better. My thoughts so far:
- If you're married and you have sex with several people, you can actually get away with seeming like you haven't been changed because you're already married. You already have the Good Sex Body Horror Transformation TM
- Valinor probably has a thriving swingers'/open marriage scene as a result of this
What Actually Happens At A Gangbang:
- Any transformation or experience of spiritual transformation or ego death entirely hinges on how many times a gangbangee experiences the transcendence of total loss, which we can assume can only really come with the loss of control that comes with orgasm
- So presumably, to achieve maximum transformation, your gangbang would have to be (and I feel some kind of way typing these words out) extremely high quality
- I think also the transformation would depend on whether the gangbangee is acting as purely a passive receptacle, or if is going for most fucks achieved - so, level of agency
- IF a gangbangee is serving as a passive receptacle, I think they'd experience the transformation of having a spirit pressed into theirs, which is maybe more comparable to the Barthesian Pleasure of the Text, which is a pleasure that can be repeated infinitely because you can live and die in the pleasure of psychological loss that comes from being lost in someone's life without necessarily expending your own, infinitely until you incrementally reach ego death
- IF a gangbangee is playing an active role, however, you are possibly more likely to reach ego death much quicker, from the process of losing yourself, gaining someone else, losing yourself, gaining someone else being more intense and requiring uh more expense of essence (which is not the same as cum, unlike in er other philosophical conceptualisations of little death)
- WHO IS HAVING A BETTER TIME: I personally think the passive gangbangee is most likely having the blissful acid style ego death, whereas the active gangbangee is more likely to have an ego death experience that could go fifty-fifty between extremely good (extremely great partners, everyone having a great and blissful time) and extremely bad (overstimulation shutdown town)
- But it all depends, honestly, on how mentally prepared both of them are for it because the passive gangbangee could very well end up at the ego death of feeling totally disembodied possibly akin to the feeling of extreme dissociation you get with hardcore sensory deprivation BDSM
HOW DOES IT WORK IN AN ORGY:
- Probably very similarly honestly?
- The real question is that if you have an orgy, if elves can temporarily achieve a sort of collective hivemind through fucking
- I like the hivemind idea, that's properly Cronenbergian, lets keep it
- Elves at the orgy enter a state of collective consciousness hivemind, especially if they manage to um orgasm together
- This is probably an extreme sport amongst bohemian elves you know
- Timothy Leary wishes he had what these elves have
- It probably feels a little like the acid trip scene in Across the Universe, but like, sustained by a collective unconsciousness of elves
HOW DOES IT WORK IN A THREESOME: the good news is that I don't have to think about this because this fic by polutropos answered that question in a way that I think is spot on
However in a threesome that is not of equals, i.e. its a V-shaped threesome (you know, like the Y Tu Mama Tambien threesome), I think this is most likely to feel like regular sex, but for the two who are really into each other, the experience is really intense and possibly ego death and transformative but less in a trippy way and more in a harrowing Freudian insight into the depths of your unconscious kind of way.
